Energy Systems Senior Architect

Overview

Pattern Energy is a leading renewable energy company that develops, constructs, owns, and operates high-quality wind and solar generation, transmission, and energy storage facilities. Our mission is to transition the world to renewable energy through the sustainable development and responsible operation of facilities with respect for the environment, communities, and cultures where we have a presence. Our approach begins and ends with establishing trust, accountability, and transparency. Our company values of creative spirit, pride of ownership, follow-through, and a team-first attitude drive us to pursue our mission every day. Our culture supports our values by fostering innovative and critical thinking and a deep belief in living up to our promises. Headquartered in the United States, Pattern has a global portfolio of more than 35 power facilities and transmission assets, serving various customers that provide low-cost clean energy to millions of consumers.

Responsibilities

The mission statement of the Enterprise Applications team is to improve efficiency in the organization through system development, process improvement and organizational alignment. The primary purpose of this position is to support the team’s mission of continuous improvement and alignment of our Energy Management Application landscape with emerging business needs.

This role is the crucial link between system end users, the software itself, and the technical development teams that support it. To maximize these objectives, the role requires strong understanding of systems and a partnership with departments such as Energy Management, Middle Office, Revenue Accounting and other parts of the business to ensure optimal deployment and adoption of the various systems.

Key Accountabilities

• This role serves as the company’s primary functional contact to support the Energy Systems Sr. Manager across all Energy Management systems, with specific responsibility for the Bid-to-Bill application.
• This will involve working closely with outsourced support personnel, business owner stakeholders, and internal and/or external technical teams to support and enhance our overall Bid-to-Bill Application landscape.
• Ongoing responsibilities will include ownership of the Bid-to-Bill product strategy, roadmap, governance, support model, and life cycle management. This includes, but is not limited to, management of system master data, workflows, and other configuration needs to support smooth business operations as well as system-based process improvement solutions, working in partnership with business owner stakeholders.
• Ensure applications effectively support market transactions, meter and operational data, settlement calculations, contract billing, invoicing, revenue calculations, reconciliation, and financial reporting.
• Establish application priorities based on business value, operational deadlines, regulatory requirements, risk, and technical dependencies.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate new assets, contracts, market requirements, and operating models into clear functional and technical requirements.
• Drive standardization and automation while minimizing manual processes, duplicate calculations, and spreadsheet-dependent workflows.
• Management of Certificates and ISO portals access.
• Partner with the ETRM Senior Architect to coordinate cross-platform processes and functionality changes to Bid-to-Bill or ETRM functionality do not introduce downstream operational or financial issues.
• Work closely with other internal Data/Infrastructure Architecture teams to design, build, and implement functional solutions based on business requirements and feedback.

Qualifications

Educational and Work Experience

• BS degree in related field required.
• Track record of delivering change and business improvement
• MBA and/or management certification is highly preferred.
• Candidate must have:
• At least 10 years management or project management experience including leading small to medium scale process/technology related projects
• At least 10 years of cross-departmental business experience, with demonstrated ability to engage and empathize with a wide variety of business owners.
• At least 10 years of experience working in a medium to large corporate environment, preferably with an Energy/Commodity focus
• Experience with running complex teams required
• Multi-cultural and multi-regional experience is highly preferred
• Renewable energy, ISO/RTO market, power trading or energy-settlements experience is desirable
• Understanding of PPAs, market settlements, meter data, transmission, invoicing, revenue recognition inputs, and renewable-energy commercial structures

Skills & Ability:

• Ability to work with an extended global team approach and innovation. Ability to successfully operate in different cultures.
• Cross-business and cross-functional collaboration and team skills, including a willingness to contribute thought leadership and execute on others' ideas.
• Ability to energize self and others toward passionate and superb execution.
• Deep expertise and established proficiency in PowerOptix and/or an equivalent Bid-to-Bill System, including:
• Design and configuration within a Bid-to-Bill application
• Working knowledge of API connections to/from Bid-to-Bill systems
• Working knowledge of the ISO connections to/from Bid-to-Bill systems
• Working knowledge of technical design to support and enhance the Bid-to-Bill
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), with demonstrated ability to independently query and investigate application databases for data validation, reconciliation, production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Established proficiency in a variety of business applications beyond Bid-to-Bill, including:
• MS Office Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Proficiency in Excel formulas preferred
• Visio, or other process mapping software
• ISO Portals
• SSMS or equivalent SQL database skills preferred
• Demonstrated problem solving and communication abilities, including:
• Lead application initiatives supporting new assets, markets, contracts, commercial products, and business processes.
• Develop roadmaps and manage competing enhancement, operational, technical-debt, and regulatory priorities.
• Communicate risks, dependencies, decisions, and priorities clearly to business and technology leadership.
• Translating information and communications between business partners, technical and non-technical team members, both verbally and through the use of visual aids such as PowerPoint and process diagrams.
• Communicating project status and complex subject matter to directors, vice presidents, C-level executives, and board members, to provide insight into the current state of the business/project and inspire the envisioned end state.
• Framing and communicating data-driven results and recommendations; a data-driven leader.
• Experience in leading change initiatives through process- and metrics-based leadership.
• A track record of delivering high-quality, on-time projects across multiple stakeholders, functions, and lines of business.
• Demonstrated success in managing and engaging on multiple, complex projects with competing needs and resource requirements.
• Change management and leadership experience associated with process and system enhancements.
• Improving organizational efficiencies by solving challenging and ambiguous problems with system and process solutions.

Ability to travel up to 5-10 percent of the time.

Pattern Energy Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.