S&P Global

Director, APAC Power & Renewables Modeling

S&P Global

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Beijing • China

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

NumpyPandasPythonSQLUnity

About the role

  • Lead the establishment of new and iterations of existing power market simulation models using industry recognized tools.
  • Develop advanced ancillary service forecasts and global battery storage optimizer, supported by scalable feature engineering, training pipelines, and cross market deployment.
  • Build globally aligned market models with regional inputs, enforce consistent analytics standards, integrate diverse data and production cost outputs, and deliver actionable insights through validation, backtesting, and scenario analysis.
  • Work with regional power teams to capture market rules, bidding structures, settlement mechanics, and ancillary product definitions.
  • Validate models to ensure alignment with regional market behavior.
  • Serve as the primary ancillary service modeling partner globally.
  • Ensure models integrate cleanly with the global analytics engine. Maintain consistent conventions, assumptions, and data structures. Design with long term scalability and strategic priorities in mind.

Requirements

  • Proven expertise in power market modeling using leading platforms and tools, such as PLEXOS, AURORA, PyPSA, DigSILENT PowerFactory, EATP, PowerWorld Simulator, PSCAD, OpenDSS, or other industry-grade models developed for power system dispatch simulation, price forecasting, scenario analysis, and trading analytics.
  • Databricks & Data Engineering: Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog Workflows, job clusters, MLflow Repo-driven development + CI/CD.
  • Experience working with data engineering on automated pipelines.
  • Advanced Python (pandas, NumPy, SciPy).
  • ML frameworks (scikit learn, XGBoost / LightGBM).
  • Short term forecasting + structural/ML hybrid modeling.
  • Uncertainty modeling.
  • Optimization experience with Pyomo, OR Tools, or Gurobi /CPLEX.
  • Strong SQL; comfort with large multi region datasets.
  • Integration of complicated data sets from various sources.
  • A good understanding of power market fundamentals, grid dispatch and power trading principals, policy impacts, and industry trends.
  • Collaborative mindset and experience working in cross-functional teams.
  • Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Business Analytics or a related field.
Benefits
  • Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
  • Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
  • Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
  • Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
  • Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
  • Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
power market modelingadvanced PythonML frameworksshort term forecastinguncertainty modelingoptimizationstrong SQLdata engineeringfeature engineeringscenario analysis
Soft Skills
collaborative mindsetgood communication skills