Optimization & Analytics Senior Advisor - Battery Storage Portfolio Management

What You Can Expect

ENGIE Global Energy Management and Sales (GEMS) is responsible for managing the portfolio of gas, electricity, congestion revenues rights and environmental products for ENGIE, across geographies. More recently, GEMS has extended his scope to also manage all the market risks (energy, congestion, Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), ancillaries) generated by the Renewable and Battery Storage Assets owned by ENGIE North America, which includes wind farms, solar farms, and storage units. The Power Portfolio Management team is precisely the group in charge of these activities.

The Battery Storage Portfolio Management group is the commercial operations management team responsible for energy storage optimization, analytics, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) modeling & financial management of the energy storage portfolio within the Engie Global Energy Management & Supply group. We are looking for an optimization engineer with a software development background to join our Energy Storage team.

As applications of energy storage resources continue to proliferate and evolve, our formulation of storage economics & objectives needs continual refinement to reflect this evolution. As the Senior Optimization & Analytics Advisor, you will report to Head of Battery Storage Modelling and you will formulate these new objectives, develop optimization methods, and collaborate with the team to maximize BESS revenue streams.You will also take the lead in the formulation of the priorities for the software development team dedicated to the Battery Portfolio Management group.

You will be responsible for design, development & implementation of automated software solutions for monetizing energy storage & other market participation models by leveraging their knowledge and experience in mathematical programming, predictive analytics, power systems engineering along with the capability to software engineer the solution to leverage software platform technologies including cloud computing, distributed computing, numerical solver methods, and data storage infrastructures.

You will be interacting with asset managers, traders, facility operators, and risk managers to develop financial and operational algorithms/models that support trading & asset optimization decisions. You will work closely with GEMS IT development team to leverage your experience in data science and our expertise in electricity market fundamentals to optimize trade support products, perform performance benchmarking and stress testing of designed products, and ensure compliance of products to market rules and transactional requirements.

• Develop algorithmic product solutions for physical & virtual assets Implement production grade mathematical code with performance benchmarking and unit testing to verify and validate outcomes
• Determine key performance indicators for algorithmic products and contributes to monitoring and iterative product improvement
• Implement optimization models for short-term operation and long-term valuation of battery storage resources
• Work closely with IT development team to determine the data storage/access design best fit battery trade/operation
• Prepare functional specification document to IT development team to industrialize proof of concept programs by Battery Storage Portfolio Management group
• Provide constructive insights as product owner during the technical solution selection of the GEMS battery software platform
• Prepare code documentation, technical reports, quantitative analyses, and presentation material for internal and external use
• Implement forecasting and optimization models for operation and valuation of renewable resources and battery storage
• Support collaborations in cross-functional workstreams
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in which you completed courses in Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent combined education and work experience
• A minimum of ten (10) years of general business experience
• A minimum of five (5) years' experience developing analytics and/or optimization workflows
• Experience with optimization modeling packages & commercial solvers such as PYOMO, CVXPY, or solver APIs (e.g. Gurobi, Cplex, Xpress)
• Familiarity with time-series and relational database platforms (InfluxDB, MongoDB, Oracle, MS SQL, Postgres)
• Experience in collaborative software development environment (version tracking with Git, code reviews)
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, tested and shippable production code in Git, Python, and/or R
• Ability to cooperate with other engineers, and focus on team goals
• Robust knowledge of data science / statistical techniques is a plus
• Experience in electricity market fundamentals including energy and ancillary service pricing based on fundamental market design a plus
• Knowledge or exposure to the employment of operations research techniques, machine learning algorithms (time series forecasting, clustering algorithms, probabilistic models, supervised and unsupervised learning) or forecasting applied to an energy domain problem a plus
• Experience utilizing derivatives of Linear Programming, MIP, and Convex Optimization and solution algorithms a plus
• Ability to handle multiple assignments on a timely basis with a high degree ofaccuracy
• Ability to meet highest attendance requirements
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbally

Additional Details

• This role is eligible for our hybrid work policy
• Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Compensation

Salary Range: $131,000 - $200,790 USD annually

This represents the average expected pay range for a qualified candidate.

Actual offered salary may depend on geography, experience, industry knowledge, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

ENGIE complies with all federal, state, and local minimum wage laws. Actual salary offered may vary depending on geography, experience, education, internal pay alignment, or other bona fide factors.

In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for a competitive bonus / incentive plan.

Your Talent Acquisition Partner can share more specific information regarding the benefits or the salary for the position based on the work location

At ENGIE, we take your well-being seriously. Our comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs. We also help you plan for retirement by offering a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match. But that's not all - we're dedicated to the health and happiness of your entire family, offering supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits. Explore our benefits package to see how we can support you. Learn more.

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