Vice President – Markets and Regulatory

Overview

We are designing the grid of the future! 

The Vice President of Markets and Regulatory is a senior leadership role within the Energy Resources Business Unit, reporting directly to the Executive Vice President. You will own the strategy, growth, delivery quality, and P&L performance for our market analysis, financial modeling, independent engineering, and NERC program management service lines, and serve as the technical authority for independent engineering opinions relied upon by lenders, tax equity investors, and asset owners.

Responsibilities

How you can make an impact:

Practice Strategy and Growth

• Define and execute the strategy, service offerings, delivery model, and multiyear growth plan for EPE’s Market Analysis, Independent Engineering and NERC Program Management service lines in North America.
• Translate market trends such as AI data center load growth, and energy supply mix changes into actionable service offerings and long-term growth plays.
• Integrate the practice with EPE’s adjacent capabilities to deliver differentiated end-to-end solutions.

Technical Leadership and Delivery Excellence

• Serve as the senior-most authority on nodal market dynamics, congestion and basis risk, capacity and ancillary services markets, and resource adequacy as well as federal and state regulatory frameworks (FERC, NERC, and ISO/RTO tariffs and protocols) and project finance due diligence.
• Act as the in-house expert on construction debt, tax equity, and acquisition transactions, owning report quality, serving as signatory on IE deliverables, and defending conclusions with lenders, investment committees, and their counsel.
• Provide executive-level oversight of technical work product through appropriate systems, processes and technology implementation.
• Ensure delivery quality, schedule performance, and client satisfaction on the practice’s most complex and highest-value projects.
• Guide the responsible adoption of AI, automation, and engineering tools to improve quality, productivity, and innovation across the practice.
• Lead the evaluation of load curtailment and load flexibility risk for large loads, recognizing that load curtailment carries fundamentally different dynamics than generation curtailment, and advise clients on BYOG, co-location, and BTM optimization strategies across ERCOT, SPP, PJM, and other ISO/RTO markets.
• Serve as the authority on transmission and interconnection tariffs, including the Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) and ISO/RTO-specific tariffs and protocols, helping clients understand tariff provisions and their commercial and operational implications for their business.
• Lead PPA and offtake agreement design and risk assessment, including evaluating existing contracts in M&A and acquisition due diligence and structuring and drafting new agreements from inception, with clear articulation of price, volume, basis, curtailment, and performance risks.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Recruit, build, lead, and retain a high-performing team of multi-disciplinary professionals.
• Set clear goals, manage utilization and staffing across engagements, and ensure the team is empowered, developed, and accountable.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, client service, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Develop succession depth by growing the next generation of practice leaders and subject matter experts.

Commercial Leadership and Client Relationships

• Own the practice P&L, including sales, revenue, utilization, and margin performance.
• Cultivate executive-level relationships with hyperscalers, data center developers, transmission developers, IPPs, EPCs, OEMs, and infrastructure investors, opening doors and shaping opportunities.
• Partner with the commercial team on pursuit strategy, win themes, pricing, proposals, and scopes of work.
• Lead contract scoping, risk review, and margin discipline for complex, multiphase engagements.
• Represent EPE as a thought leader through conference participation, publications, industry task forces and working groups, and standards bodies.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with banks, private equity and infrastructure funds, tax equity investors, and other capital providers, serving as EPE's primary technical counterpart in financing and transaction processes.

Qualifications

Bring your passion, here's what’s needed:

The successful candidate is a rare blend of technical authority and commercial builder: a finance or engineering executive who has led the delivery of bankable independent engineering reports, financial models, and long-term market forecasts relied upon by lenders and investors.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, electrical or mechanical engineering or a related discipline required; advanced degree (MS, MBA, or PhD) preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in power generation, mission-critical facilities, or large industrial energy systems, including significant leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience with leading market analytics firms.
• Deep knowledge of markets across Canada and the US including insights into offtake agreements, PPA, etc.
• Proven track record building or scaling an engineering practice, service line, or business unit, with P&L or sales accountability.
• Significant experience leading independent engineering, lender’s engineer, or owner’s engineer engagements for project financings, tax equity investments, or M&A transactions, including defending conclusions before credit committees and investors.
• Established network among infrastructure investors, tax equity firms and debt service providers.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, and the judgment to operate independently in a senior market-facing role.
• Active participation in industry organizations, task forces, and/or working groups (IEEE, ESIG, or similar) is a plus.

Success Measures

• Sales, revenue, and margin growth of the Markets and Regulatory practice against the multi-year plan.
• Successful recruitment and retention of the practice’s engineering team.
• Delivery quality, client satisfaction, and repeat business on flagship engagements.
• Cross-functional alignment with sales, corporate development, technical practices, finance, and executive leadership.

Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence.  For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid.   Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.  

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• MyShare Employee Ownership Program
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)

Location: This position will be located in Austin, Texas

Travel:  Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster

Third-Party Recruiting Notification

EPE does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to EPE via our career page or to any of our managers or employees will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency. EPE will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed third-party agreement and has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Talent Acquisition team.