Trading Analyst - Denver, CO
Core
Design quantitative analysis to price wholesale energy transactions, hedge risk, and optimize power system portfolio operations and resource commitment schedules.
Role type
Senior quantitative trading analyst (energy markets)
Builds
Optimized daily unit commitment schedules, bid/offer strategies for organized markets, and cost-efficiency models for power generation assets.
Domain
Electricity and natural gas energy markets
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
quantitative analysis, mathematical modeling, data mining, forecasting, risk quantification, market trend research, regulatory analysis, optimization algorithms
Preferred skills
generation cost modeling, power plant operations knowledge, electricity industry experience, trading operations experience
Technologies
Plexos, Aurora, Prosym, Promod, Gentrader
Responsibilities
Design quantitative studies of historical/forecasted prices, loads, and fuel costs; troubleshoot daily operations of regulated electric companies; create modeling scenarios to optimize unit commitment and resource scheduling; perform post-analysis of system operations to identify efficiency improvements; bid load and offer generation into organized markets; analyze and forecast future market prices at various trading points.
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC