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Analyst, Market Operations and Optimization

Organization

Northland Power Inc.

Region

Canada, Ontario, Toronto

End Of Contest

January 17, 2027

Type full time

Category

Analyst

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Description

What you will do

The Analyst, Market Operations & Optimization supports the commercial optimization of Northland's generation and energy storage portfolio across electricity markets. The role combines market analytics, quantitative modeling, optimization and data engineering to identify revenue opportunities, evaluate asset performance and support commercial decision-making.

Working closely with Operations, Asset Management and other commercial teams, the Analyst will develop analytical tools, assess market participation strategies and help maximize portfolio value across markets (Americas and International).

The role will be required to work in the Toronto office four days per week with one flexible day to work from home

Key Responsibilities

- Analyze electricity-market prices, congestion, ancillary services, dispatch outcomes and other market fundamentals to identify commercial opportunities and risks.
- Perform asset and portfolio-level analyses, including DA/RT performance, realized versus potential value, revenue attribution and performance benchmarking.
- Develop and maintain optimization models to evaluate dispatch strategies, market participation and revenue opportunities for generation and energy-storage assets.
- Design and maintain data pipelines, dashboards and analytical tools using Python and SQL to support market operations and commercial decision-making.
- Extract, transform and analyze market, operational, financial and settlement data from multiple sources.
- Evaluate energy, capacity and ancillary services market opportunities and revenue-stacking strategies.
- Monitor and assess the performance of third-party asset optimizers and energy managers.




- Investigate settlement discrepancies, operational deviations and potential sources of value leakage.
- Support the enhancement of optimization methodologies, forecasting approaches and market-operation processes.
- Present analytical findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner.

Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics or a related quantitative discipline.
- 1-3 years of experience in electricity markets, energy trading, energy storage, renewable energy, quantitative analysis, optimization or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience with mathematical programming optimization (LP, MILP, and NLP) and with optimization software and frameworks (Pyomo, Gurobi, CPLEX, OR-Tools or equivalent)
- Strong Python programming skills, including data analysis, modeling and automation.
- Strong SQL skills and experience querying and managing large datasets.
- Understanding of wholesale electricity markets and concepts such as energy, capacity, ancillary services, congestion and DA/RT markets.
- Solid analytical, problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to translate complex quantitative results into business recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with cloud-based data platforms and data engineering tools.
- Experience with battery energy storage systems (BESS) and revenue optimization.
- Familiarity with power-system modeling, forecasting and time-series analysis.
- Experience using Git and collaborative software development practices.
- Knowledge of North American and European electricity markets.
- Experience evaluating merchant asset performance or energy trading strategies

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Contact

Northland Power Inc.

30 St Clair Ave W

Toronto www.northlandpower.com

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