Associate Director - ERCOT Market Subject Matter Expert (Part-Time/ Contract)
RemoteUnited States or Remote, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Provide domain expertise on ERCOT market operations, congestion mechanisms, and nodal pricing to support a Proof of Concept for congestion driver attribution. Guide the interpretation of transmission constraints, shift factors, shadow prices, and binding intervals while validating model outputs against historical events. Translate ERCOT market behavior into functional requirements for Graph ML and data science teams to ensure interpretable, actionable outputs for analysts. Collaborate with engineers and project leadership to define network graph attributes, establish business rules, and assess model readiness for nodal price forecasting.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated professional experience working with the ERCOT wholesale electricity market
- Strong understanding of congestion modelling and nodal market operations
- Practical knowledge of Locational Marginal Pricing and congestion components
- Practical knowledge of Shift factors and transmission-interface exposure
- Practical knowledge of Binding constraints, contingencies, and constraint shadow prices
- Practical knowledge of Day-Ahead and Real-Time Market operations
- Practical knowledge of Generation, load, and transmission outages
- Practical knowledge of ERCOT bid-and-offer disclosures
- Practical knowledge of Congestion Revenue Rights and related market information
- Experience analysing historical congestion events and identifying the underlying physical, transmission, or market-behaviour drivers
- Experience in one or more areas such as power-market trading, congestion analytics, forecasting, market simulation, production-cost modelling, power-flow analysis, or transmission-network modelling
- Familiarity with ERCOT datasets, including network-model files, outage reports, market disclosures, constraint reports, and other publicly available market information
- Ability to translate complex power-market concepts into clear requirements and validation criteria for data engineering, analytics, and machine-learning teams
- Experience collaborating with data scientists, machine-learning engineers, trading teams, or advanced analytics stakeholders
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
Desired Qualifications
- Exposure to nodal price forecasting, explainable AI, graph-based analytics, or AI-led power-market applications
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.