{"id":140445,"url":"https://alion.io/job/first-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa","title":"Software Engineering Lead- Operations MES USA","company":{"id":47033,"name":"First Solar","domain":"firstsolar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/first-solar","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":104,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.817,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":6,"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"}},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["New Iberia, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":112300,"max":160000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":160000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-12-08T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-12-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T18:28:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":324,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":324},"description":"First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.\nBasic Job Functions:\nEvaluates, designs, and implements projects for controlling and interfacing with the manufacturing processes. This includes designing and developing related data visualization and user input systems, database structures, procedures, and reports. Works with the MES architects and controls engineers to ensure solutions integrate seamlessly with the MES hardware and software systems to support enterprise design goals. Provides execution system technical knowledge and resources to the MES development team. Provides the final level of support for First Solar’s manufacturing execution systems, data architectures, and data collection. This MES operations lead is responsible for ensuring timely response to manufacturing MES Software Issues as well as identifying and implanting proactive measures to minimize downtime. Directs MES Ops Developer Team in providing support and solutions for existing equipment on the production floor for strategic partners of the MES group. Drives and manages capacity expansion projects in existing or new plants.\nEducation/Experience:\nBachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent years of work experience.\nMinimum 6 years of work experience.\n6+ years in either manufacturing systems or on software development teams using Microsoft .NET technologies.\n4+ years of experience with manufacturing control systems, shop floor interface/automation systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), or OPC data transfer.\nRequired Skills/Competencies:\nProven Organizational and Project Managerial skills.\nDemonstrated expertise with manufacturing software architecture and execution systems.\nSuccessful leadership of software development projects and processes.\nStrong C# development skills.\nProven Microsoft SQL Server design and development expertise.\nDemonstrated success in application support.\nExcellent understanding of computer operating systems and software applications.\nExcellent understanding of enterprise data systems.\nProven employee and customer relations skills.\nProven interpersonal communications, including the ability to drive international projects with multinational team members.\nProven understanding of fundamental AI development concepts and experience developing AI-based solutions\nProven experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization concepts, including both platform-based development and deployment expertise\nEssential Responsibilities:\nEvaluate, configure, and deploy execution system software for controlling manufacturing processes and tool data collection.\nDesign and develop data visualization and user input systems for manufacturing and related processes.\nDesign and develop database structures and procedures to operate and maintain software systems.\nSupplies manufacturing data and operation reports based on production data to strategic MES partners and supports ongoing data collection operations.\nDevelop software and database applications on a variety of platforms.\nManages outsourced software development work.\nEnsures good QA standards for software development.\nManages transitions from the developers (solutions group) to the support group.\nOversees local MES operation development activities to support business objectives.\nCoordinate activities and development of the Local MES Support Team members, including on-call rotations and escalation procedures.\nMaintains focus on team programs and key changes requests.\nInterfaces with solutions/project teams to ensure smooth support hand-off of new or modified applications.\nFosters collaboration, open communication, and team building.\nKey Competencies:\nUndertakes analytical activities and delivers analysis outputs, in accordance with customer needs and conforming to agreed standards.\nMaintains knowledge of specific technical specialists provides detailed advice regarding their application and executes specialized tasks. The specialism can be any area of information or communication technology, technique, method, product or application area.\nMonitors the market to gain knowledge and understanding of currently emerging technologies. Identifies new and emerging hardware and software technologies and products based on own area of expertise, assesses their relevance and potential value to the organization, contributes to briefings of staff and management.\nPromotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools.\nApplies data analysis, data modeling, and quality assurance techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions). Advises database designers and other application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.\nSpecifies user/system interfaces, and translates logical designs into physical designs taking account of target environment, performance requirements and existing systems. Produces detailed designs and documents all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.\nDevelops specialist knowledge of database concepts, object and data modeling techniques and design principles. Translates object and data models into appropriate database schemas within design constraints. Interprets installation standards to meet project needs and produces database components as required. Evaluates potential solutions, demonstrating, installing and commissioning selected products.\nDesigns, codes, tests, correct and documents large and/or complex programs and program modifications from supplied specifications using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.\nSelects and uses tools and methods to establish, clarify and communicate the user experience, users' characteristics and tasks, and identifies the technical, organizational and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate.\nDefines the integration build, accepts software modules from software developers, and produces software builds for loading onto the target environment. Configures the hardware environment, produces integration test specifications, and conducts tests, recording details of any failures and carrying out fault diagnosis.\nAssesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling. Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialists maintaining and administering the tools and methods - manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, information exchange with configuration management. Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained. \nIdentifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures. Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics. Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.\nInvestigates problems in systems and services. Assists with the implementation of agreed remedies and preventative measures.\nUses appropriate methods and tools in the development, maintenance, control and distribution of quality and environmental standards. Makes technical changes to quality and environmental standards according to documented procedures. Distributes new and revised standards.\nLeads in the introduction and use of techniques, methodologies and tools to match overall business requirements.\nMaintain defined communication channels and/or stakeholder groups, acting as a single point of contact. Gather information from stakeholders to understand their needs and detailed requirements. Facilitate open communication between stakeholders. Facilitate planning and implementation of changes and maintain contact with stakeholders throughout to ensure requirements are met.\nOther duties as assigned.\nJob description subject to change at any time.\nReporting Relationships:\n This position will have direct reports.\nTravel:\n5% - 10%\nEstimated Salary Range:\n$112,300 - $160,000, Annually\nUS Physical Requirements:\nHybrid Physical Requirements:\nWill sit, stand or walk short distances for up to the entire duration of a shift.\nWill climb stairs on an occasional basis.\nWill lift, push or pull up to 37 pounds on an occasional basis. \nRequired to use hands to grasp, lift, handle, carry or feel objects on a frequent basis.\n20/40 vision in both eyes together, with or without correction, is required.\nMust be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures.\nMay reach above shoulder heights and below the waist on a frequent basis.\nMay stoop, kneel, or bend, on an occasional basis.\nAbility to wear personal protective equipment is required (including but not limited to; steel-toed shoes, gloves, safety glasses, hearing protection, protective jacket or apron and arm guards, and a condition of employment and continued employment (requires little or no facial hair) for those requiring respirator use.\nPotential candidates will meet the education and experience requirements provided on the above job description and excel in completing the listed responsibilities for this role. All candidates receiving an offer of employment must successfully complete a background check and any other tests that may be required.\nEqual Opportunity Employer Statement: First Solar is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.","description_format":"text","description_chars":9906,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2025-12-08T00:00:00Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 45 · green card filings: 15","filings_12m":45,"filings_prev_12m":59,"green_card_filings_12m":15,"median_offered_wage_usd":85833,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":7}],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.186,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":324,"expected_fill_days":6,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/first-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/first-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T19:38:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":27222,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":47033},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=47033"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffirst-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffirst-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffirst-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/first-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffirst-solar-india-software-engineering-lead-operations-mes-usa"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":140445}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"firstsolar.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":140445},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}