Principal Consultant, Advanced Grid Solutions

• →Lead advanced grid and emerging utility technology initiatives, including AMI, EMS, DERMS, ADMS, DER integration, and flexible interconnections.
• →Bring deep grid-domain experience to help utilities address changing operational needs and modernize the grid.
• →Help clients evaluate and apply new technologies to challenges such as DER growth, data center loads, and grid flexibility.
• →Take a vendor-agnostic approach, focusing on the technologies and solutions that best fit the client’s needs.
• →Provide technical leadership and guidance across complex utility programs and client engagements.

• Lead technical delivery of large, complex grid modernization and systems integration projects.
• Provide solution architecture expertise, turning utility business and operational needs into practical solutions that can be implemented and supported.
• Apply strong systems architecture practices to determine how systems, interfaces, data, and technologies should work together.
• Develop pragmatic architectures based on experience with what works in real-world utility environments.
• Lead solution design and integration across AMI, EMS, DERMS, ADMS, SCADA, GIS, historians, enterprise systems, and other grid technologies.
• Guide key architecture and design decisions across clients, vendors, and Qualus delivery teams.
• Provide technical leadership from early design through integration, testing, deployment, and operational readiness.

• Help identify and develop new solutions for emerging utility and grid challenges.
• Lead and support R&D initiatives involving new technologies, operating models, and industry needs.
• Support research and demonstration projects in areas such as data center loads, flexible interconnections, and DER orchestration.
• Explore practical uses of AI and advanced analytics within grid operations and project delivery.
• Work with research organizations, utilities, vendors, and broader Qualus teams to develop and test new ideas.
• Help turn successful research, pilots, and demonstrations into practical solutions that can be applied on client projects.

• Help grow the Advanced Grid Solutions organization, including its capabilities, services, people, and market presence.
• Build solution architecture as a core capability through mentoring, design reviews, proven approaches, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor and develop consultants in grid technologies, architecture, systems integration, and solution delivery.
• Capture proven architectures, approaches, tools, and lessons learned for reuse across projects.
• Support recruiting and development of the technical talent needed to grow the practice.
• Contribute to proposals, client pursuits, solution development, and new service offerings.
• Build strong relationships across clients, technology vendors, research organizations, and the broader utility industry.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience supporting electric utility operational and advanced grid technologies, including AMI/MDM, DERMS, ADMS, SCADA, EMS, or related systems.
• Within those 10 years, a minimum of 5 years of consulting, systems integration, or professional services experience supporting electric utilities.
• Experience with large-scale grid modernization, systems integration, or utility technology implementation projects.
• Experience applying solution or systems architecture practices within complex utility environments.
• Experience should have been obtained through one or more of the following:
  • Electric utility consulting or systems integration.
  • Utility software vendor implementation, engineering, solution architecture, product management, or professional services.
  • Electric utility engineering, operations, OT, transmission/distribution, or control center organizations.
  • Advanced grid, DER, grid modernization, research, or emerging technology programs.

Qualus is a leading pure-play power solutions firm and innovator at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, energy efficiency and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency management, and secure data exchange. The firm has over 2,000 professionals, with offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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