Senior Director Grid Analytics

Senior Director, Grid Analytics

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29 are recruiting for a Senior Director of Grid Analytic son behalf of a rapidly growing utility scale renewable energy company focused on developing, acquiring, constructing, and operating solar and energy storage projects across high-growth U.S. power markets.

With a substantial development pipeline spanning utility scale Solar and BESS projects, the company is scaling rapidly from greenfield development through construction and commercial operation, while continuing to expand its portfolio through new development opportunities and strategic acquisitions.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a company at a pivotal stage of growth, where your work will have a direct impact on investment, development, and siting decisions. The successful candidate will have significant influence across the organization and the opportunity to grow with the business.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Grid Analytics to own, develop, and scale our in-house power flow and transmission system analysis capabilities.

This is a senior technical leadership role for an individual who combines deep expertise in transmission planning and generator interconnection with strong commercial judgment, systems thinking, and a strong bias toward automation and continuous improvement.

The company has established a grid analytics framework supporting its proprietary site-selection and development process. The Senior Director will take ownership of this framework and continuously enhance it to improve analytical speed, consistency, scalability, and decision quality.

This is not a "run studies as assigned" role. It is a decision-driving, system-owning leadership position with direct influence on executive-level investment, development, and siting decisions.

The role will also lead the generator interconnection process across the portfolio and support technical due diligence for M&A activities. This includes taking several mid-stage projects through generator interconnection agreements and into execution and commercial operation, while coordinating with transmission owners to ensure project schedules and milestones are achieved.

• Take end-to-end ownership of the existing grid analytics framework and continuously evolve it to support faster, more consistent, and forward-looking siting and interconnection decisions.
• Design and refine repeatable workflows for regional screening, scenario modeling, and sensitivity analysis.
• Reduce friction, rework, and reliance on institutional knowledge by formalizing assumptions, methodologies, processes, and analytical outputs.
• Establish scalable analytical standards that can support a rapidly expanding development portfolio.

• Perform and oversee innovative and complex power flow, injection, and scenario studies supporting greenfield prospecting and project development.
• Independently predict, replicate, validate, and challenge ISO, transmission owner, and consultant study results.
• Estimate interconnection facility and network upgrade costs and assess associated project risks.
• Modify regional power flow base cases to reflect future resource mixes, generation retirements, load growth, and planned transmission upgrades.
• Identify grid constraints, opportunities, and risks early in the development lifecycle.

• Lead and oversee the generator interconnection request process, from model and application preparation through interconnection agreement negotiation and execution.
• Coordinate with transmission owners and other stakeholders to resolve project schedule, technical, and cost issues during execution.
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert on generator interconnection procedures, queue windows, and processes governed by Open Access Transmission Tariffs (OATTs).
• Drive projects through the interconnection process while maintaining alignment with broader development and construction schedules.

• Design and maintain automated, scalable analytical workflows using Python or other scripting languages for model execution, post-processing, and scenario evaluation.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI-assisted tools for data processing, queue tracking, scenario generation, result synthesis, and other analytical workflows.
• Continuously improve analytical efficiency and coverage through automation.
• Build a grid analytics capability that scales with portfolio growth without…