Hydroelectric utility managing North America's largest transmission grid
Hydro-Québec is a government-owned energy utility operating across production, transmission, and distribution in Quebec. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward enterprise systems (SAP suite, ServiceNow) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker), with emerging data capabilities (Databricks, Azure Data Factory). Hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering (221 open roles), operations, and data—a pattern consistent with modernizing legacy grid infrastructure and advancing the Plan 2035 strategic initiative.
Hydro-Québec produces, transports, and distributes electricity across Quebec, with hydroelectric generation as its primary resource. The company operates four divisions: Production (generation and wholesale market sales across Quebec and beyond), TransÉnergie (operates North America's largest electricity transmission network), Distribution (retail supply and efficiency programs for Quebec consumers), and Equipment (engineering and construction subsidiary). As a government-owned entity, the organization balances commercial market participation with regulated transmission and distribution operations. Research and development spans energy efficiency, electrification of transport, and technology development from internal research programs.
Hydroelectric power. The company exploits renewable energy resources, with hydroelectricity as the primary generation mode, and operates North America's largest transmission grid to distribute that power.
Canada only. The organization currently has 416 active roles across engineering, operations, data, and construction, concentrated within Canada.
Enterprise systems (SAP, SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift), data platforms (Databricks, Azure Data Factory), and development tools (Java, Python, Spring Boot, Bitbucket, ArgoCD).
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