Job Description

📋 Tasks and responsibilities

You will join a development team responsible for maintaining and enhancing a business-critical SCADA environment that operates 24/7 and supports grid balancing activities across Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. The scope continues to expand through the integration of smaller and more flexible assets.

The applications in this landscape support real-time control of production units, connect flexibility assets and help ensure compliance with European grid codes within the broader energy transition.

• Monitor production assets and available generation capacity.
• Facilitate the exchange of operational information between transmission system operators and the real-time SCADA platform.
• Calculate and send real-time setpoints to power plants based on production planning, live acquisition data and balancing signals such as FCR, aFRR and mFRR.
• Design, build and maintain SCADA applications that support real-time balancing operations.
• Contribute to both front-end and back-end development using SCIL, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Apply sound architectural practices to deliver scalable, resilient and robust solutions.
• Use software craftsmanship principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS and YAGNI to keep the codebase clean and sustainable.
• Work in an Agile/SAFe environment together with analysts, operators and technical stakeholders.
• After onboarding, participate in an on-call rotation to help ensure 24/7 availability and operational continuity.

📝 Your profile

• You hold a master’s degree in IT and/or electrical engineering, for example in software, electronics or electromechanics.
• You bring at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• You combine an industrial mindset with strong software engineering skills, including architecture and design patterns.
• You understand the fundamentals of electricity generation and grid transport.
• You work proactively and in a structured way, with a strong focus on stability in a high-responsibility environment.
• You are willing to support critical incidents when needed and can first provide a quick fix, followed by a sustainable solution where required.
• You are motivated to work in a team responsible for real-time operations.
• You collaborate smoothly with peers, analysts, architects, business stakeholders and other teams.
• You learn quickly, take initiative and actively contribute to improvements in the environment and ways of working.
• You communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

💼 Offer

You will be part of a growing Belgian SME where initiative and personal development are encouraged. We will provide you with an enjoyable work environment with fun colleagues. We will work out a career plan with you, with attention and a budget for extra education/certification. You can count on an attractive salary, supplemented with extra-legal benefits, including a company car.
(Freelance is also possible)