Analyst, Market Operations and Optimization

Role overview

Workplace

• The role works from the Toronto office four days per week, with one flexible work-from-home day.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze market prices, congestion, ancillary services, dispatch outcomes, asset performance, and revenue attribution.
• Develop optimization models for dispatch, market participation, and revenue opportunities.
• Build and maintain Python- and SQL-based data pipelines, dashboards, and analytical tools; extract, transform, and analyze data from multiple sources.
• Evaluate market opportunities and revenue stacking; monitor third-party optimizers and energy managers.
• Investigate settlement discrepancies, operational deviations, and value leakage; improve optimization, forecasting, and market-operation processes.
• Present actionable findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a listed quantitative discipline or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in electricity markets, energy trading, energy storage, renewable energy, quantitative analysis, optimization, or a related field.
• Demonstrated mathematical programming optimization experience with LP, MILP, and NLP, and experience with optimization software or frameworks such as Pyomo, Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools, or equivalent.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, including data analysis, modeling, automation, and work with large datasets.
• Understanding of wholesale electricity markets, including energy, capacity, ancillary services, congestion, and DA/RT markets.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; able to turn quantitative results into business recommendations.

Preferred qualifications

• Cloud data platforms, data engineering tools, battery energy storage systems, revenue optimization, power-system modeling, forecasting, or time-series analysis experience is preferred.
• Git and collaborative software development practices, knowledge of North American or European electricity markets, and merchant asset or energy trading evaluation experience are preferred.

Benefits

• Benefits include RRSP matching, health, dental and vision coverage, paid parental leave, and accident, life, and disability insurance.