Technical Manager, Power Sector Modeling (Energy Tool Design & Development)

at  ICF

PREFERRED LOCATION: TORONTO, CANADA

ICF is seeking a candidate motivated to lead in expanding and developing analytic tools and methods to capture emerging technologies and operations in power sector planning. A successful candidate will love finding innovative solutions, prototyping and testing design, and visioning potential changes in use cases. The position requires a candidate who is highly technical, detail-oriented, has a basic understanding of power systems operations and engineering, excels in mathematical optimization, and is a strong programmer. The candidate will join a small team to support and grow an existing modeling platform that provides the foundation for power sector expansion analysis and will work closely with users of the tool on multiple use-cases. In-depth domain knowledge and mathematical programming experience is required, as is ability to work with software developers and users to address complex planning focused problems.
If you are curious and excited about advancing technology to help plan future energy systems, apply today!

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, Mathematics, Operations Research in relevant field.
• Minimum of 8+ years relevant experience in energy tool development management and operations research.
• Experience with complex power sector/energy systems modeling, load flow, contingency analysis, etc.
• Experience with linear and mixed integer programming tools (such as AMPL/GAMS/CPLEX/Gurabi/Ilog) and .Net, C# or relevant technologies with SQL Server.

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE

• Numerical analysis methodology, mathematical skills with solid theoretical background in numerical analysis and optimization techniques.
• Proficiency in operations research skills.
• Experience with unit commitment and economic dispatch.

• Create mathematical formulation and design for new and revised model formulation.
• Ensure complete documentation of mathematical formulation.
• Develop comprehensive test cases.
• Lead testing functionality including regression testing of existing platform.
• Work collaboratively with small team of enthusiastic software developers.
• Collaborate with internal tool users regularly.
• Providing user support including troubleshooting, error/infeasibility investigation, and solutioning.
• Do deep dives to test, debug and build features as required.
• Plan, implement, and release model versions.
• Extending life of mature platform with optimized and sustainable engineering practices.
• Mentoring, coaching & building internal user base skill sets using and applying the platform.
• Developing new or supplemental tools to support in-depth analytics.
• Exploring alternate development platforms and system architecture.