Lead Trading Analyst

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Date: Aug 3, 2026

Company: Next Era Energy

Requisition : 96608

Next Era Energy Marketing is one of the nation’s leading electricity and natural gas marketers, and a key player in the energy markets in the United States and Canada. As a part of Next Era Energy Resources, we specialize in innovative energy strategies that maximize market value for our customers and stakeholders. Our team is skilled in market analysis, trading, risk management and delivering tailored customer solutions across North America.

If you are a strategic thinker eager to make a significant impact in the fast-paced energy industry, join our team today.

This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership. You will set the vision for grid modeling and congestion analytics, ensure analytical rigor at scale, and translate complex power system and market dynamics into actionable commercial and risk management decisions. In addition to owning the technical roadmap, you will partner closely with traders and other senior stakeholders.

• Own and advance detailed
  DC/AC power flow and contingency models
  for PJM, ERCOT, and other ISO/RTOs.
• Model and forecast
  flowgates, interface constraints, thermal and voltage limits
  impacting DA/RT markets and FTR/CRR/ARR outcomes.
• Build, calibrate, validate, and back-test
  market simulation engines
  that replicate ISO dispatch, pricing (LMP, congestion, losses), and auction mechanics.
• Monitor and model
  transmission topology changes
  , outages, new project interconnections, and load growth trends.
• Translate
  ISO tariffs, FERC regulations, and market rule changes
  into modeling assumptions and logic.
• Design and govern
  automated, production-grade data pipelines
  integrating grid, market, weather, and asset data into trading, risk, and settlement systems.

• Define the
  multi‑year strategy and roadmap
  for grid modeling and congestion analytics aligned with Next Era’s trading, development, and risk objectives.
• Quantify and communicate
  congestion risk, nodal margin drivers, sensitivities, and scenario outcomes
  to trading desks and executive leadership.
• Partner with development, origination, and asset optimization teams to support
  build/no‑build decisions, merchant valuations, and hedging strategies
  .
• Identify and incubate
  new analytical capabilities
  (advanced optimization, ML/AI, cloud-native architectures) and drive them from POC to production.

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s or PhD preferred) in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Applied Math, Physics, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years
  of progressive experience in ISO/RTO market modeling, congestion analytics, or power systems analysis.
• Deep expertise in
  DC/AC power flow, contingency analysis, FTR/CRR/ARR markets, and settlement mechanics
  .
• Proficiency with industry tools (e.g., PSS/E, Power World, Dayzer, Enelytix/TARA, Enverus Mosaic/Panorama, YES Energy or similar) and strong programming skills (Python, SQL, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams, influence senior stakeholders, and translate analytics into business decisions.

• Operational experience in PJM and/or ERCOT markets.
• Experience collaborating with congestion trade desks.

• Provide thought leadership, set technical strategy, and identify possible uses of data science methods
• Explain methods and results to upper-level executives
• Develop machine learning, optimizations or other modeling solutions
• Oversee related employee work, learn new techniques being developed
• Prepares comprehensive documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses
• Works with big data and distributed computing platforms
• Develops software and contributes to product development
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience:
  
  6+ years

• Master’s Degree
• Doctoral Degree

Next Era Energy offers a wide…