Data Product Delivery Lead

Xcel Energy Inc; Roseville, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Dependent Care Reimbursement Account

Health Care Reimbursement Account

Health Savings Account (HSA) (if En.)

Limited-Purpose FSA (if En. health)

Transportation Reimbursement Account

Short-term disability (STD)

Long-term disability (LTD)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Fitness Center Reimbursement (if En. )

Tuition reimbursement

Transit programs

Employee recognition program

Pension

401(k) plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Holidays

Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)

Parental Leave

Job summary

Xcel Energy Inc. seeks a Data Product Delivery Lead in Minnesota to drive senior technical leadership for governance, design, and deployment of data products across reporting, analytics, integrations, and AI use cases.

You will coordinate delivery across architects, engineers, and SMEs, ensuring secure, compliant environments and successful program delivery. Related responsibilities include defining delivery plans, validating data migrations, and maintaining engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Technical proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Independent problem solving

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you're looking for.

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 elevate. 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, orregulated-industryexperience.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If you’re ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at [e-mail].

Non-BargainingThe anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $112,200.00 to $165,000.00 per yearThis position is eligible for the following benefits:

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.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation.You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Deadline to Apply: 09/18/26

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