Technical Manager, Power Sector Modeling (Energy Tool Design & Development)
LOB / Portfolio : Energy Markets, Modeling, and Analysis (EMMA) and Energy Advisory (EA).
Preferred Location : Toronto, Canada
ICF is seeking a candidate motivated to lead in expanding and developing analytic tools and methods to capture emerging technologies and operations in power sector planning.
A successful candidate will love finding innovative solutions, prototyping and testing design, and visioning potential changes in use cases.
The position requires a candidate who is highly technical, detail-oriented, has a basic understanding of power systems operations and engineering, excels in mathematical optimization, and is a strong programmer.
The candidate will join a small team to support and grow an existing modeling platform that provides the foundation for power sector expansion analysis and will work closely with users of the tool on multiple use-cases.
In-depth domain knowledge and mathematical programming experience is required, as is ability to work with software developers and users to address complex planning focused problems.
If you are curious and excited about advancing technology to help plan future energy systems, apply today!
Remote or Hybrid option in Toronto, Canada :
- Remote : This position may be fully remote and can only be performed from your home office within Ontario province.
- Hybrid : This position may be based in our Toronto office and offers the flexibility of working remotely from your home office within Ontario province.
Why you will love working here :
- Our purpose is to build a more prosperous and resilient world for all.
- Quality of life : Flexible workplace arrangements, work-life balance.
- Investment of the community : Donation matching, volunteer opportunities.
- Investment in you : Tuition reimbursement, access to professional development resources, 401k matching, Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Professional growth : Bring your passion, develop your personal goals and align them with our company purpose and values.
- Employee community networks : Join internal forums where you can connect with colleagues who share or support common characteristics, interests, and goals.
Key Accountabilities and Duties
- Create mathematical formulation and design for new and revised model formulation.
- Ensure complete documentation of mathematical formulation.
- Develop comprehensive test cases.
- Lead testing functionality including regression testing of existing platform.
- Work collaboratively with small team of enthusiastic software developers.
- Collaborate with internal tool users regularly.
- Providing user support including troubleshooting, error / infeasibility investigation, and solutioning.
- Do deep dives to test, debug and build features as required.
- Plan, implement, and release model versions.
- Extending life of mature platform with optimized and sustainable engineering practices.
- Mentoring, coaching & building internal user base skill sets using and applying the platform.
- Developing new or supplemental tools to support in-depth analytics.
- Exploring alternate development platforms and system architecture.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master's degree or PhD in computer science, Mathematics, Operations Research in relevant field.
- Minimum of 8+ years relevant experience in energy tool development management and operations research.
- Experience with complex power sector / energy systems modeling, load flow, contingency analysis, etc.
- Experience with linear and mixed integer programming tools (such as AMPL / GAMS / CPLEX / Gurabi / Ilog) and .Net, C# or relevant technologies with SQL Server.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- Numerical analysis methodology, mathematical skills with solid theoretical background in numerical analysis and optimization techniques.
- Proficiency in operations research skills.
- Experience with unit commitment and economic dispatch.
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