Senior Energy Consultant
London (hybrid)
We have a fantastic opportunity for an Energy Consultant to join Brady's growing energy professional services team.
At Brady Technologies, we are at the forefront of the energy transition, helping market participants navigate new challenges and opportunities with confidence. Our advanced software solutions bring clarity to complex problems and processes, enabling customers to enhance their trading and operations and meet tomorrow’s energy needs. Our product suite serves a diverse client base, including utilities, independent power producers, renewable asset developers, and energy and multi-commodity trading houses. We also provide solutions for oil & gas companies, particularly as they develop their power businesses, state power grid operators, hedge funds and investment management companies.
Our software solutions support critical decision-making and help these regional and global leaders optimise their trading, power operations, and manage complex risks. Our technology facilitates increased automation and efficiency in the face of changing market dynamics including decentralisation, decarbonisation, diversity of generation assets, volatility and evolving regulation. We are proud of the spirit of partnership we have with our customers, many of whom have been with us for a decade or more. Furthermore, we are committed to our values of collaboration, innovation and delivery, to ensure we continue to meet their and the energy market’s needs in the future.
If you've got a background in power scheduling or have experience working in physical power trading operations and interested in working at an innovative software vendor who are solving meaningful challenges in the power sector, then we'd love to hear from you!
Key Accountabilities:
- As software configuration SME (Subject Matter Expert), understand business requirements and how to translate to customisable solutions via configuration and interface interactions. Identify gaps, write business requirements and hand over to product manager.
- Take responsibility for assigned tasks following a detailed project plan. Provide progress to the project manager and deal with issues as the first point of escalation on the project.
- Devise and create training material and run training courses remotely or onsite at clients.
- Be pro-active in maintaining and building relationships with assigned clients and gain an understanding on how they use the software for their business needs.
- Generate additional revenue via identification of training, consultancy services and change requests.
- Manage and undertake pre-testing of software and contribute to improving the quality of releases for specific client configurations.
- Co-ordinate with pre-sales and project managers, providing key input into planning and estimating of software delivery projects.
- Identify revenue/upsell opportunities with the customer through continuous improvement of services and thorough understanding of customer’s business and goals
- Assist Sales to qualify prospects, ensuring Brady can deliver in line with requirements
- Attend sales meetings as a technical and/or functional expert
- Present proposals to prospects/customers alongside members of the sales team
Key Skills/Experience:
- Previous Power/Energy sector experience working in roles such as a Power Scheduler or within physical power trading operations or portfolio management
- Understanding of physical power market concepts in either GB or in Europe such as balancing, scheduling and dispatch
- Consulting or Business Analysis experience a big plus
- Configuration of systems using different configuration file formats i.e., XML, JSON, YML
- Querying databases for information: Gremlin, SQL, KQL, Oracle
- Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and Databricks.
- Knowledge of using REST API and Azure Service bus is an advantage.
- Process and task automation using VBA and Python.
- Support product team with proof of concepts (POC) using Python, Git and Azure resources.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to present and communicate effectively with customers
- Collaborative team member but with the ability to work independently with customers
What Brady offers:
- Great compensation + 8% pension + 5% bonus + private health insurance and more!
- 25 days' holiday + bank holiday
- 1/2 day off Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve
- 2 days' study leave per annum
- Flexible working hours with hybrid working environment (2-3 days per week)
- A positive, values-driven culture
- Brady collects and processes personal data relating to its applicants to manage the recruitment process. Brady is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations. As an applicant of a role with Brady, your data will be processed in line with the Recruitment Privacy Notice. You will find this Privacy Notice here: https://www.bradyplc.com/recruitment-privacy-policy/. Please review and ensure that you understand the data processing terms.