Lead Developer, Technology Services
Vistra Corp2 months ago
Irving, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Maintain systems and create technical designs for front-end and back-end development, deployment, data-warehouse integration, user access controls, and data security measures.
- Lead daily operational activities, measure process quality and compliance, and drive automation and continuous improvement for ITIL-aligned processes.
- Develop and implement solutions that improve Vistra’s data architecture, data management processes, and platform performance.
- Engage business users, process owners, architecture, and application teams to define data needs and support key performance indicators and service-level agreements.
- Create policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures that improve data availability, responsiveness, risk mitigation, and business outcomes.
- Use well-structured unit tests, analyze code for errors and vulnerabilities, and develop remediation plans to improve performance and usability.
- Manage cross-team platform initiatives, participate in agile ceremonies, provide domain guidance to less experienced team members, and support training and process adoption.
- Develop production AI applications using LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector search, agent architectures, MCP, function calling, and tool-use patterns.
- Apply AI governance practices involving PII handling, output validation, and prompt-injection mitigation.
Requirements
- 10–12 years of professional experience in a technology or business field.
- Experience analyzing code for non-standard practices, errors, and security vulnerabilities and presenting remediation plans.
- Experience managing and delivering departmental initiatives related to supported platforms.
- Experience with system maintenance, technical design, and front-end and/or back-end development and deployment.
- Strong TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, and Python production-engineering skills.
- Deep understanding of LLMs, context windows, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, and vector search, plus hands-on experience with agent architectures, MCP, function calling, and tool-use patterns.
- Experience with GitHub Copilot, Agent Mode, custom instructions, and prompt files.
- Working knowledge of enterprise CMS, CDP, MarTech, Snowflake, and Azure DevOps.
- Professional certifications such as ITIL, CSM, or AWS are a plus.
- Strong organizational, communication, presentation, attention-to-detail, relationship-building, and stakeholder-engagement skills, with the ability to provide executive-level communications and guide team members.
- Experience gained through a college degree program and/or business certifications may apply to the listed skills.
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About Vistra Corp
Vistra Corp is a U.S. integrated retail electricity and power generation company, selling power and related services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers. It operates a diversified fleet—including the Comanche Peak nuclear plant, natural gas units, renewables, and large-scale battery storage—and is headquartered in Irving, Texas, trading on the NYSE as VST. Retail brands such as TXU Energy and Ambit serve deregulated markets, backed by wholesale generation across multiple regional power markets.