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We encourage you to join our talented, dedicated workforce to develop world-class solutions for today and tomorrow’s energy challenges while learning new skills and growing your career.\nERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at alllevels of our company. It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise. We know that individuals with a wide variety of talents, ideas, and experiences propel the innovation that drives our success. An inclusive and diverseworkforce strengthens us and allows for a collaborative environment to solve the challenges that face our industry today and in the future.\nProvides advanced engineering and analytical support for the Texas wholesale electricity market and ERCOT grid operations. Monitors system conditions and market performance, applies electricity market theory to understand market behavior and outcomes, and anticipates and resolves issues within the ERCOT Protocols framework. Works with limited supervision and serves as a technical resource to Market Participants, the PUCT, industry and stakeholder groups, and internal departments. Develops improved analytical tools, validates proposed market system changes, and supports demand integration, load profiling and demand response initiatives. Provides guidance to less experienced team members.\nJob Duties - Senior level\nMonitors and analyzes the ERCOT wholesale market and grid conditions and recommends design and system modifications and enhancements as needed to efficiently integrate demand-side participation.\nAnticipates and resolves issues within the ERCOT wholesale market and grid operations using power engineering knowledge and experience.\nPerforms engineering studies using the ERCOT network models to analyze conditions and events on the system.\nPrepares and validates models of electric power systems and applies electricity market theory to explain market behavior and outcomes.\nMaintains advanced knowledge of competitive energy markets, industry trends, the ERCOT Protocols and grid operations in order to advance demand integration efforts.\nGenerates and maintains market reports per requests and Protocols.\nProposes and creates new solutions for data acquisition, analysis and reporting, applying tools such as SQL, SAS and Python.\nSupports the development and revision of Protocols, guides and business procedures related to the wholesale market and demand integration.\nAddresses Market Participant questions pertaining to daily market and grid operations activities, including load profiling and modeling.\nSupports load sampling, data collection and analysis, and the maintenance of profiling and modeling systems used for demand integration.\nContributes to cross-functional, matrixed teams, setting goals and priorities, aligning timelines and deliverables with subject matter experts, and driving demand response initiatives to completion.\nDevelops and applies proven and innovative approaches to quantifying the impact of ERCOT and Market Participant demand response programs.\nProvides technical assistance to the management team, the PUCT, industry and stakeholder groups, including support for demand response program development.\nAttends stakeholder, industry and PUCT meetings, provides technical input, and prepares and delivers presentations to internal groups, and Market Participant subcommittees and committees.\nWorks independently, using sound judgment, and escalates issues to the Supervisor and/or Manager in a timely manner when necessary.\nBuilds strong working relationships with internal departments and external stakeholders.\nMentors and provides technical guidance to less experienced engineers and analysts.\nJob Duties - Lead level (above plus)\nSets the technical vision and direction for wholesale market engineering, anticipating emerging market, grid and load trends and translating them into long-range priorities and roadmaps for the organization.\nDevelops and applies proven and innovative approaches to quantifying the impact of ERCOT and Market Participant demand response programs.\nServes as a recognized subject matter expert who develops new theories, methods and market-design concepts that shape the future ERCOT market construct.\nEvaluates market performance and emerging risks and proposes strategic market design and system enhancements aligned with ERCOT reliability and market objectives.\nAnticipates enterprise-wide issues before they materialize and develops creative, durable solutions, exercising wide latitude for decisions whose impact extends beyond the department.\nDefines the strategy and standards for engineering studies and power system modeling, including forward-looking scenario analysis, and directs the work of others performing them.\nProvides strategic direction for load profiling, modeling and demand integration, anticipating the reliability impacts of substantial new load growth and overseeing the data and systems that support it.\nSets scope and direction for multi-phase projects that implement and enhance market operations systems, aligning delivery with long-term strategic priorities.\nShapes the long-term evolution of ERCOT Protocols, guides and business procedures, including those enabling market participation in demand response programs.\nDevelops and drives the strategy for demand response program development and consolidation across departments, holding teams accountable for successful implementation.\nLeads cross-functional, matrixed teams, setting goals and priorities, aligning timelines and deliverables with subject matter experts, and driving demand response initiatives to completion.\nInfluences regulatory direction by providing strategic input to the PUCT and other regulators on proposals and rulemakings, anticipating the market and reliability impacts of policy changes.\nRepresents ERCOT as an industry thought leader on panels, committees, advisory boards and working groups, and brings back industry practices and insights that inform ERCOT strategy.\nBuilds consensus among stakeholders with differing interests, including Market Participants and the Independent Market Monitor, to advance market solutions.\nAdvises senior executives, Board members and regulators on strategic challenges, opportunities and tradeoffs, communicating complex technical topics to diverse audiences.\nDefines the vision for data acquisition, analytical tools and reporting capabilities, sponsoring innovation and overseeing the market reports produced per requests and Protocols.\nServes as the escalation point for complex Market Participant disputes and questions, identifying systemic root causes and driving procedural or design changes that prevent recurrence.\nIdentifies and drives business process improvements, and tracks and forecasts demand response trends and their potential impacts on ERCOT.\nBuilds strategic partnerships with universities and other RTO/ISOs, publishes market-leading conceptual papers, and develops the next generation of technical leaders through mentoring and coaching, fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture.\nREQUIRED EXPERIENCE\nSenior: Minimum of 5 years of job-related work experience in excess of degree requirements.\nLead: Minimum of 8 years of job-related work experience in excess of degree requirements.\nSalary and level will be based on overall experience as determined by ERCOT.\nPREFERRED EXPERIENCE\nExperience performing data analysis and engineering studies in the electric utility or wholesale electricity market environment.\nAbility to communicate technical subject matter effectively to a diverse range of audiences.\nProficiency in SQL and/or SAS.\nExperience with data analysis using Python.\nKnowledge of ERCOT markets, ERCOT Protocols and the ERCOT stakeholder process.\nKnowledge of demand response programs, in ERCOT and/or other jurisdictions.\nEDUCATION\nBachelor’s Degree: Electrical Engineering or related field (Required).\nOr a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required.\nWORK LOCATION - 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