Principal Architect - Energy Market Solutions

TRC Companies • CA-Sacramento, CA

1d • $175,656 - $195,790 • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal Architect - Energy Market Solutions, to lead the design and delivery of Energy Market-focused solutions in the utility sector. This role is responsible for defining end-to-end solutions, aligning with enterprise strategies, and overseeing delivery across complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-workstream programs involving MMS and other critical infrastructure systems. The ideal candidate brings deep experience with ISOs, DSOs, and other energy market participants. They will be capable of engaging with executive stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and regulatory bodies to drive transformational outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, or Ph. D in Electrical Engineering, or related technical field required.
• 14+ years of experience in Wholesale Energy Markets domain and delivery within the utility or energy sector.
• Experience with North American Wholesale Markets, Market rules and applications, such as CAISO, ERCOT, NEISO, SPP, PJM, NYISO, IESO, AESO.
• Familiarity with Wholesale Markets initiatives such as CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market (EIM), EDAM, ERCOT’s RTC+B, SPP’s Markets+, etc.
• Prior experience implementing/support Day Ahead and/or Real-Time Wholesale Energy Markets, including with associated applications such as Reliability Unit Commitment (RUC), Real-Time Co-optimization (RTC), Market Power Mitigation (MPM), Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR), Financial Transmission Rights (FTR), etc.
• Familiarity with Day Ahead and Real-Time market implementations, business processes and functional upstream/downstream system dependencies.
• Familiarity with implementation of Optimization Models within Wholesale Markets domain.
• Strong vendor and stakeholder management experience, including RFPs, solution evaluations, and contract oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of market rules based upon regulatory & business requirements.
• Perform market and system studies to validate market rules.
• Plan and lead vendor management & MMS system implementation projects.
• Conduct market simulation exercises with key internal/external stakeholders.
• Validate optimization models to meet market design objectives.
• Support business decisions and the evolution of new market design and products.
• Develops and implements business solutions such as new market products and/or new market constraints and procedures.
• Conduct DER integration and other market impact analysis.
• Support raising TRC’s profile as an industry leader in operational technologies and innovative solutioning by creating marketing artifacts, writing industry facing articles/blogs, or presenting at conferences.
• Act as the technical authority across delivery teams, ensuring alignment with architecture vision and standards.
• Demonstrates knowledge of policy issues and related matters.
• Anticipates, identifies and resolves engineering-related problems and potential problems within Market areas.
• Lead solution design reviews, validate technical feasibility, and oversee implementation across multiple concurrent energy market projects.
• Engage with energy market teams to understand requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and supportable solutions.
• Performs advanced descriptive analysis for the energy market including day-ahead and real-time, energy and reliability services, congestion revenue rights as well as operational performance.
• Drive vendor and technology selection and manage partnerships with system integrators and OEMs.
• Lead efforts to develop and evangelize innovative solutions that bring the best of emerging and new technologies to our clients and TRC’s core offerings.
• Support and drive client engagement to develop new business opportunities for TRC.
• Support sales team with establishing and enhancing client relationships through direct support on calls, site visits, and thought leadership on complex technical discussions.
• Lead and support proposal responses driving solution and technical approach, writing content for key technical and business solution sections, and supporting commercial sizing and work estimates.
• Support staffing efforts and strategic hiring by attracting talent and former colleagues to TRC.
• Serve as a thought leader and advisor to utility executives and senior management.
• Provides leadership, mentoring, and guidance to client team members.
• Stays up-to-date with the latest developments in energy markets, data science and technology and applicable federal, state and local regulatory requirements.
• Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) on energy markets, market data, data science and technology.
• Establish and enforce energy market governance processes and best practices.
• Mentor, guide and lead architects, engineers, and delivery teams on solution design and delivery standards and methods.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
• 401k package that includes both traditional and Roth IRA options and Company match.
• Paid time off contingent upon full time or part time status and level of seniority (ranging from 15 to 25 days per year).
• All full-time employees enjoy a minimum of 8 Paid Holidays per year.
• TRC ensures that all employees, including those that work part-time, receive paid sick, family, and disability leave in accordance with the laws of their state of residence.
• TRC offers jurisdiction specific benefit packages for International and Puerto Rico employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree