Principal Technical Project Consultant

Aspen Technology; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions company is seeking a Project Technical Lead in Montreal, Canada. The successful candidate will design and deliver control systems while collaborating with external customers. This role demands a strong technical background in automation and electrical utility control systems. You will provide customer support and contribute to project excellence, requiring advanced English skills and experience in relevant programming and database management. Ideal for those with strong organizational and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in automation and customer support.
• Experience with electrical utility control systems is necessary.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery with external customers.
• Design and integrate hardware and software systems.
• Provide ongoing customer support and technical sales assistance.

Skills

Automation and computers expertise

Customer service commitment

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

C / C++

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Mongo

Cassandra

UNIX

Linux

Windows

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

In this role, you will design and deliver DGM's control systems and provide ongoing customer support to ensure reliable performance and world-class customer satisfaction. The successful applicant will contribute to project delivery excellence in support of utility customers in the energy generation transmission and distribution industries.

Your Impact

• Project Technical Lead directly working with external customers delivering projects
• Design, plan, integrate, test and commission hardware and software requirements on customer systems.
• Evaluate contract specifications and define project requirements through customer communication and communicate the requirements to other departments as necessary.
• Provide networking and system/application design.
• Perform hardware, software and system installation, integration, and testing for projects.
• Customize system, hardware and network configuration based on customer requirements.
• Provide customer support and assistance per contract maintenance and warranty.
• Provide technical sales support of state-of-the-art power systems applications for real-time control systems, including sales presentations and product demonstrations.
• Assist in creating training materials and project documentation as needed.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering or related field.
• Strong technical background in automation and computers with at least 8 years of relevant experience
• Language requirement:
  • French: A1 (basic)
  • English level C1 (advanced), the position requires interactions with international clients.
• Experience with electrical utility control systems (SCADA, EMS, GMS, DMS, OMS, DERMS) or experience working in utility operations
• Experience in one or more of the following: power systems, electric utility operations/dispatch, real-time control systems, client/server applications, network communications, UNIX / Linux / Windows operating systems
• Experience in software programming and scripting (Python, C / C++)
• Experience in Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra)
• Experience with JSON, XML
• Experience with common utility protocols (ICCP, DNP, MultiSpeak)
• Experience with OSI monarch control systems
• Excellent organization, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong commitment to providing superior customer service.
• Ability to work on several projects in parallel in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Ability and flexibility to travel to domestic and international customer sites.