Commercial Quantitative Associate
COMPAÑIA ELECTRICA DE SOCHAGOTA S.A. E.S.P - TERMOPAIPA IV · Houston, TX · 6 days ago
AnalystFull-time
About the role
Join us to drive the right power forward and make clean energy the natural choice for all!
Key Responsibilities
- Enable data-driven decisions
- Deliver insight-driven recommendations to support trading, origination, and risk mitigation
- Collaborate across Asset Management, M&A, and Business Development teams to embed analytics into key commercial workflows
- Affiliate in managing consultants and advisors with the evaluation of scenario inputs and results
- Develop Quantitative Models
- Support development of advanced models for forecasting, pricing, risk management, and asset optimization
- Affiliate in establishing scalable analytics processes, tools, and governance frameworks to support real-time and long-term commercial decision-making
- Modeling of BESS, solar, gas-generating resources, as well as the overall regional portfolio
- Affiliate in structuring of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), fuel procurement strategies, and market bidding decisions
- Design & Manage Data Infrastructure and Analytics Function
- Build and maintain a robust data architecture that integrates market, asset, trading, and financial data
- Affiliate in developing automated pipelines and storage solutions to support large-scale, real-time energy data
- Affiliate in ensuring data quality, consistency, and accessibility across the commercial organization
- Affiliate in developing dashboards and reporting tools to enhance visibility into portfolio and asset performance
Qualifications and Skills
- 5+ years of experience in commercial analytics, quantitative modeling, or data architecture within the energy, utilities, or commodity trading sectors
- Familiarity with U.S. power, gas, REC markets and evolving market changes
- Understanding operations and modeling for renewable (solar and BESS) and gas-fired technologies
- Expertise in programming and data manipulation (e.g., R, Python, SQL, MatLab or similar) and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau or similar) for power applications
- Experience with power optimization and/or risk software (Promod, Plexos, cQuant or similar)
- Familiar with power portfolio risk metrics including GMaR, VaR and other related
- Strong background in time-series forecasting, optimization, or machine learning
- Familiarity with energy modeling, trading, and risk management platforms and their integration with commercial operations and investment decisions
- Experience building dashboards and reports
- Strong skills for scenario modeling and ad hoc analysis
- Exposure to big data environments and modern data warehousing tools is a plus
- Expertise in scalable data infrastructure, including data pipelines, storage, cloud platforms, and governance frameworks, is a plus
- Knowledge of thermal or renewable power generation cycles
- Experience troubleshooting or knowledge of industrial communication protocols (OPC, Modbus)