Data Product Delivery Lead

Job description

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Position Summary

The Data Product Delivery Lead provides senior-level technical leadership within a defined transformation domain, delivering advanced engineering, environment design, and integration support across complex transformation program activities. Operating with a high degree of independence, this role leads domain-level infrastructure and environment engineering, evaluates technical impacts across upstream and downstream systems, and resolves complex technical issues that Engineers and SMEs escalate.

The Data Product Delivery Lead partners closely with architects, Principal Engineers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams to ensure solutions are engineered, tested, and deployed in alignment with program standards, security requirements, and long-term operational needs. This role plays a critical part in enabling stable, compliant, and scalable environments that support successful delivery throughout the transformation lifecycle.

Within Customer Core, the role leads technical delivery coordination for governed data products that support reporting, analytics, integrations, and AI consumption, from intake and design through release and operational transition.

Essential Responsibilities

Lead technical delivery of governed data products across design, build, test, release, monitoring, and operational transition. Define delivery plans, technical dependencies, reusable patterns, and engineering controls for assigned data-product outcomes. Partner with architects and technical leads to design and optimize cross platform integration and compliance requirements. Diagnose complex infrastructure and application issues and drive resolution across test, QA, and non-production environments.

Coordinate data conversion, migration, validation, performance, and release-readiness activities across delivery teams and environments. Ensure cybersecurity and regulatory controls are appropriately implemented; recommend remediation options as relevant. Maintain data-product delivery documentation, lineage and traceability artifacts, engineering standards, and reusable delivery patterns for the program.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience. 7+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or related domain. Strong technical proficiency and ability to independently solve complex engineering problems. Demonstrated experience designing scalable, secure environments. Strong cross functional communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Requirements

Experience delivering governed data products for reporting, analytics, integrations, or AI use cases. Experience with data quality, metadata, lineage, access controls, and release-readiness practices. Experience coordinating technical delivery across business owners, architects, engineering teams, and system integrators. CIS Utility, SAP transformation, or regulated-industry experience. Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.

Our Values Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe Our Employee Commitments Work that makes a difference A team you can count of Opportunities to grow Rewards that help you thrive Xcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form .

Non-Bargaining The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $112,200.00 to $165,000.00 per year This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, Health Care Reimbursement Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation

Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave Benefit plans are subject to change and

Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

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Deadline to Apply

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