Senior SCADA Application Developer - Real-Time Energy Systems (Freelance possible)

As a senior developer, you will join a development team responsible for business-critical 24/7 SCADA applications used to keep an energy portfolio in balance across Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The scope is expanding to cover a wider geographical area and a growing number of smaller, highly flexible assets.

The team builds and evolves tools that support the real-time control of production assets, the integration of flexibility, and compliance with European grid codes in support of the energy transition.

📋 Tasks and responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a SCADA solution that helps keep the operational energy perimeter in balance.
• Work on both front-end and back-end development using SCIL, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Apply architectural design principles to create scalable and robust solutions.
• Use software craftsmanship principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS, and YAGNI to deliver clean, maintainable, and resilient code.
• Collaborate in an Agile/SAFe® environment with analysts, dispatchers, and technical teams.
• Contribute, after onboarding, to an on-call rotation to help ensure system availability and grid stability in a 24/7 setting.

The applications are mainly used to:

• monitor production assets and the available capacity of power plants;
• exchange operational information between transmission system operators and the real-time SCADA environment;
• calculate real-time setpoints for power plants based on production plans, live data acquisition, and reserve mechanisms such as FCR, aFRR, and mFRR.

Technical environment

The solution runs on an enterprise SCADA platform. Back-end development is done in the proprietary language SCIL (Supervisory Control Implementation Language), while the front end is web-based and built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

📝Your profile

• You learn quickly, work autonomously, and take initiative to improve the environment and ways of working.
• You hold a master's degree with a specialization in IT and/or electrical engineering, for example in software, electronics, or electromechanics.
• You combine an industrial mindset with a strong level of software engineering, including architecture and design patterns.
• You understand that system stability is essential in real-time environments and that outages or defects can have a major operational impact.
• You have a basic understanding of programming languages and are willing to follow the required SCIL training early after your start.
• You understand the fundamentals of electricity production and grid transport.
• You are motivated to work in a team responsible for real-time operations.
• You communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, with technical and non-technical stakeholders at different levels, internally and externally.

💼 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)