Principal Consultant, Advanced Grid Solutions

Power your future with Qualus as a Principal Consultant on our Advanced Grid Solutions team. The Principal Consultant is a senior client-facing leader within the Advanced Grid Solutions Team, providing technical and consulting leadership for complex grid modernization initiatives. The role combines deep utility and advanced grid expertise with strategic advisory, solution architecture, systems integration, and delivery leadership to help utilities evaluate, adopt, and integrate emerging grid technologies.

Advanced grid initiatives often involve evolving technologies, requirements, and operating models. The Principal Consultant is expected to work effectively in these environments, bring structure to complex or ambiguous challenges, and develop practical solutions that can be implemented and supported. The role works across utility operations, engineering, IT, OT, technology vendors, and Qualus delivery teams to guide solutions from strategy and architecture through implementation and operational readiness.

• Lead advanced grid and emerging utility technology initiatives, including AMI, EMS, DERMS, ADMS, DER integration, and flexible interconnections.
• Bring deep grid-domain experience to help utilities address changing operational needs and modernize the grid.
• Help clients evaluate and apply new technologies to challenges such as DER growth, data center loads, and grid flexibility.
• Take a vendor-agnostic approach, focusing on the technologies and solutions that best fit the client’s needs.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across complex utility programs and client engagements.

• Lead technical delivery of large, complex grid modernization and systems integration projects.
• Provide solution architecture expertise, turning utility business and operational needs into practical solutions that can be implemented and supported.
• Apply strong systems architecture practices to determine how systems, interfaces, data, and technologies should work together.
• Develop pragmatic architectures based on experience with what works in real-world utility environments.
• Lead solution design and integration across AMI, EMS, DERMS, ADMS, SCADA, GIS, historians, enterprise systems, and other grid technologies.
• Guide key architecture and design decisions across clients, vendors, and Qualus delivery teams.
• Provide technical leadership from early design through integration, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.

• Help identify and develop new solutions for emerging utility and grid challenges.
• Lead and support R&D initiatives involving new technologies, operating models, and industry needs.
• Support research and demonstration projects in areas such as data center loads, flexible interconnections, and DER orchestration.
• Explore practical uses of AI and advanced analytics within grid operations and project delivery.
• Work with research organizations, utilities, vendors, and broader Qualus teams to develop and test new ideas.
• Help turn successful research, pilots, and demonstrations into practical solutions that can be applied on client projects.

• Help grow the Advanced Grid Solutions organization, including its capabilities, services, people, and market presence.
• Build solution architecture as a core capability through mentoring, design reviews, proven approaches, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor and develop consultants in grid technologies, architecture, systems integration, and solution delivery.
• Capture proven architectures, approaches, tools, and lessons learned for reuse across projects.
• Support recruiting and development of the technical talent needed to…