Technical Manager, Energy Tool Modeling Design and Development (Operations Research)

Energy Tool Development Manager (Operations Research)

LOB/Portfolio: Energy Markets, Modeling, and Analysis (EMMA) and Energy Advisory (EA).

Preferred Locations: Reston, VA | Toronto, CN | or Delhi, India.

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.

Why you will love working here:

• Our purpose is to build a more prosperous and resilient world for all 

• Quality of life: Flexible workplace arrangements, work-life balance 

• Investment of the community: Donation matching, volunteer opportunities 

• Investment in you: Tuition reimbursement, access to professional development resources, 401k matching, Employee Stock Purchase Plan 

• Professional growth: Bring your passion, develop your personal goals and align them with our company purpose and values 

• Employee community networks: Join internal forums where you can connect with colleagues who share or support common characteristics, interests, and goals 

Key Accountabilities and Duties 

• 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 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Post graduate degree (MSc, PhD, etc.), computer science, Mathematics, Operations Research in relevant field.

• Minimum of 8+ years relevant experience in Energy Tool Development Management and Operations Research.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience 

• Deep mathematical skills, with solid theoretical background in numerical analysis and optimization techniques 

• Proficiency in operations research skills 

• Proficient knowledge and experience working with complex power sector models 

• Proficient knowledge and experience working with energy system modelling and simulation, analysis and operation, optimization and numerical analysis methodology 

• Experience with linear and mixed integer programming tools (such as AMPL/GAMS/CPLEX/Gurabi/Ilog)

• Familiarity with concepts of Unit Commitment, Economic Dispatch, Load Flow, Contingency Analysis, etc. 

• Rich experience with .Net, C# or relevant technologies with SQL Server

• Proficient logical, analytics and problem-solving skills 

• Proficient organizational skills

• Attention to detail

• Proficiency in oral and written communication skills 

• Collaborativ