Market Operations Analyst

Key Capture Energy, LLC; New York (NY); Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Key Capture Energy, LLC is seeking a Market Operations Analyst to join the Market Operations team. This remote, full-time role focuses on optimizing battery energy storage system dispatch and supporting day-to-day power market operations.

You'll monitor market conditions, develop and adjust trading strategies using Python and SQL, build PowerBI dashboards, and generate analytical reports to improve performance. A STEM degree and energy analytics interest are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, economics, computer science, or a related field.
• 0-2 years of energy industry or analytical experience.
• Exposure to programming (SQL, Python, R, MATLAB, or similar).
• Experience working with large data sets is a plus.
• Interest in clean energy and power markets.

Responsibilities

• Build a fundamental understanding of daily energy market operations across jurisdictions.
• Monitor real-time market conditions, asset availability, and strategy performance to identify risks and opportunities.
• Support the management of company assets day-to-day, including via bid submission and code debugging.
• Understand factors impacting electricity prices and collaborate to improve price forecasts and ingest into bidding models.
• Develop and assess new models to improve PNL.
• Design, support, and contribute to automated power market bidding/trading strategies using Python and SQL.
• Analyze and manipulate datasets in MS SQL Server.
• Collaborate with the development team to support analytics infrastructure.
• Build PowerBI dashboards that transform data into information for market decisions.
• Build analytical reports and models to support energy trading.
• All other duties as required.

Skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Energy markets

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

SQL Server

Python

R

MATLAB

Job description

Job Title:
Market Operations Analyst

Department:
Market Operations

Reports to:
Senior Manager of Market Analysis

Effective Date:
August 2026

Location:
Remote

Travel:
Up to 15%

Position Purpose

This is a full-time, exempt position reporting to the Senior Manager of Market Analysis. The Market Operations Analyst quantitative reasoning, problem solving, operations research methods, and programming skills to assist the market operations team in optimization battery energy storage system dispatch (charging and discharging) across the Key Capture Energy fleet. Responsibilities may include strategizing day-to-day power market operations, supporting real-time operations by monitoring market conditions and strategy performance to help ensure the best available strategy is continuously deployed, troubleshooting market operations in real-time, building/editing mathematical models that represent battery energy storage system and/or hybrid solar + storage system operation, and building reports summarizing performance of trading strategies. The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who can develop the technical skills to independently run projects from the brainstorm phase through to a final work-product.

Key Responsibilities

• Build a fundamental understand of daily energy market operations in various jurisdictions.
• Monitor real-time market conditions, asset availability, and strategy performance to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
• Support the management of company assets day-to-day, including via bid submission and code debugging.
• Understand factors impacting electricity prices and collaborate with the team to improve price forecasts and ingest into bidding models.
• Develop and assess new models as necessary to improve PNL.
• Design, support, and contribute to the build-out of automated power market bidding/trading strategies using Python and SQL.
• Analyze and manipulate datasets in MS SQL Server.
• Collaborate with the development team to support the build out of necessary infrastructure for analytics work.
• Build PowerBI dashboards that transform data into information that informs market decisions.
• Build analytical reports and models to support energy trading.
• All other duties as required.

Work Experience & Requirements

• 0-2 years of energy industry or analytical experience.
• Bachelor's degree in: engineering, math, economics, computer science, chemistry, physics, finance, business, or related field.
• Interest in clean energy and power markets.
• Exposure to programming (SQL, Python, R, MATLAB, or similar).
• Experience working with large data sets a plus.
• Very motivated self-starter.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Physical Requirements

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer