Principal Implementation Engineer - Power Factors

Opportunities with AppDirect's Advisor Partners (Recruitment as a Service) • Brossard, QC

2d • Remote

About The Position

Power Factors is seeking a Principal Implementation Engineer to join their Professional Services team. This role will lead complex platform implementations for renewable energy asset owners and operators, serving as the technical and domain authority throughout the customer engagement lifecycle. The platform ingests and analyzes data from renewable energy assets to maximize performance. The Principal IE will mentor team members, improve implementation methodologies, and provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams. The role involves working remotely with an international team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working inside the renewable energy industry in asset management, performance engineering, O&M, or a comparable technical role at an IPP, asset owner, OEM analytics team, or renewable monitoring organization, including several years of PV experience.
• Hands-on operational experience with SCADA systems, electrical drawings, as-built drawings, data historians, or APM platforms; able to interrogate time-series data, diagnose performance issues, and validate data quality in production environments.
• Deep familiarity with renewable energy performance concepts: power curve analysis, performance ratio, availability calculations, energy yield variance, loss categorization, and O&M cost structures.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and data structures; able to independently interrogate datasets and validate platform outputs.
• Technical aptitude for SaaS configuration, APIs, data mapping and transformation, and troubleshooting complex customer environments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate operational requirements into software configuration decisions with ownership and precision.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to engage performance engineers and asset managers as a peer on the details that matter to them.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple concurrent implementations across a global customer base.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with renewable energy APM (Asset Performance Management) platforms.
• Domain depth in wind energy: meteorology, power performance, turbine reliability, or turbine operations, in addition to PV.
• Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder deployments involving large datasets, integrations, and operational change management.
• Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Energy Systems, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience working in a workshop format and helping to translate data and requirements into actionable designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end implementations for utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS customers.
• Serve as the domain authority on how technically sophisticated customers intend to use the platform and interpret its output.
• Drive UAT and production readiness through Technical Support handoff.
• Lead technical discovery workshops and translate operational requirements and design decisions into platform configuration, covering KPIs, dashboards, analytics, data onboarding, and integrations.
• Review and validate implementation deliverables for technical accuracy, ensuring configured data structures and analytics outputs align with industry standards and customer expectations.
• Mentor team members to build renewable energy domain fluency across the PS team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of implementation methodology, solution design templates, Professional Services runbooks, and validation standards.
• Surface renewable industry requirements and field observations back to Product and Engineering from direct customer engagement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision coverage, plus dedicated wellness support.
• Generous paid vacation policy.
• Employer RRSP matching program.
• Work-from-abroad opportunities with manager approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed