Principal Consultant - Market Modeling & Analysis (Power Markets)

Location: Hybrid, Houston, Texas, United States

Company

hirify.global provides analytics, insights, proprietary data, and consulting services across the energy and natural resources sectors.

What you will do

• Lead the planning, delivery, and close-out of power market modeling, commercial, transaction, and strategic consulting projects.
• Develop North American power market analytics, long-term energy, capacity, and ancillary-service price forecasts, and scenario and sensitivity analyses.
• Build, run, calibrate, and validate production cost models such as PLEXOS, AURORA, PROMOD, GridView, and EnCompass.
• Develop Python and SQL tools for battery, thermal, capacity-price, scarcity-price, and ancillary-service analysis.
• Lead interconnection, basis, congestion, curtailment, asset valuation, revenue forecasting, PPA, hedge, and due diligence analyses.
• Manage client communication, deliverables, business development support, and coaching for junior team members.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in power and renewables consulting, utilities, IPPs, infrastructure funds, banks, or related analytical roles, including 5+ years of hands-on fundamental power market modeling.
• In-depth knowledge of North American power markets, including ISO/RTO design, LMP and price formation, capacity and ancillary services, resource adequacy, transmission, and relevant technologies.
• Hands-on experience with at least one fundamental production cost model, including model setup, calibration, validation, scenario execution, and interpretation.
• Experience with Python, SQL, AI tools, financial modeling, dashboards, data quality assurance, presentations, and client-ready reports.
• Strong project, workstream, client-service, communication, presentation, and team-management skills, including mentoring junior staff.
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, economics, or finance; a graduate degree is preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with interconnection assessments, basis and congestion forecasting, shift-factor analysis, asset dispatch, revenue forecasting, pro forma development, and financial due diligence.
• Exposure to transaction advisory, price forecasting, scenario analysis, and asset due diligence for investors, lenders, developers, and IPPs.
• Graduate degree such as an MBA, MS, or PhD.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment.
• Inclusive, trusting, customer-committed, future-focused, and curious working culture.
• Collaboration across consulting, research, sales, and global sector teams.
• Equal-opportunity employment commitment.