Principal Consultant, Advanced Grid Solutions

Qualus•, FL

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About The Position

The Principal Consultant is a senior, client-facing leader on Qualus’s Advanced Grid Solutions team. The role provides technical and consulting leadership for complex grid modernization initiatives, combining utility and advanced-grid expertise with strategic advisory, solution architecture, systems integration, and delivery leadership. The consultant helps utilities evaluate, adopt, and integrate emerging grid technologies, bringing structure to evolving or ambiguous challenges and developing practical, implementable solutions. The role works across utility operations, engineering, IT, OT, technology vendors, and Qualus delivery teams to guide solutions from strategy and architecture through implementation and operational readiness. It also contributes to innovation and research, helps develop the Advanced Grid Solutions organization and its people, and supports client pursuits and new service offerings.

Requirements

At least 10 years of experience supporting electric utility operational and advanced grid technologies, including AMI/MDM, DERMS, ADMS, SCADA, EMS, or related systems.
At least 5 years of consulting, systems integration, or professional services experience supporting electric utilities, within the required 10 years.
Experience with large-scale grid modernization, systems integration, or utility technology implementation projects.
Experience applying solution or systems architecture practices in complex utility environments.
Relevant experience must have been obtained through one or more of the following: electric utility consulting or systems integration; utility software vendor implementation, engineering, solution architecture, product management, or professional services; electric utility engineering, operations, OT, transmission/distribution, or control center organizations; or advanced grid, DER, grid modernization, research, or emerging technology programs.

Responsibilities

Lead initiatives involving advanced grid and emerging utility technologies, including AMI, EMS, DERMS, ADMS, DER integration, and flexible interconnections.
Apply grid-domain expertise to help utilities address changing operational needs and modernize the grid.
Help clients evaluate and apply technologies to challenges such as DER growth, data center loads, and grid flexibility.
Provide vendor-agnostic advice focused on solutions that best fit client needs.
Provide technical leadership and guidance across complex utility programs and client engagements.
Lead technical delivery of large, complex grid modernization and systems integration projects.
Translate utility business and operational needs into practical solution architectures.
Apply systems architecture practices to determine how systems, interfaces, data, and technologies should work together.
Lead solution design and integration across AMI, EMS, DERMS, ADMS, SCADA, GIS, historians, enterprise systems, and other grid technologies.
Guide architecture and design decisions involving clients, vendors, and Qualus delivery teams.
Provide technical leadership from early design through integration, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.
Identify and develop solutions for emerging utility and grid challenges.
Lead and support R&D initiatives involving new technologies, operating models, and industry needs.
Support research and demonstration projects involving data center loads, flexible interconnections, and DER orchestration.
Explore practical applications of AI and advanced analytics in grid operations and project delivery.
Collaborate with research organizations, utilities, vendors, and Qualus teams to develop and test ideas.
Help translate successful research, pilots, and demonstrations into practical solutions for client projects.
Help grow the Advanced Grid Solutions organization, its capabilities, services, people, and market presence.
Build solution architecture as a core capability through mentoring, design reviews, proven approaches, and knowledge sharing.
Mentor and develop consultants in grid technologies, architecture, systems integration, and solution delivery.
Capture proven architectures, approaches, tools, and lessons learned for reuse across projects.
Support recruiting and development of technical talent.
Contribute to proposals, client pursuits, solution development, and new service offerings.
Build relationships with clients, technology vendors, research organizations, and the utility industry.