Director of AMI Distributed Intelligence & Edge Platforms

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 147,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a hands-on leader to own the Distributed Intelligence ecosystem within the Electric AMI program. The role blends product ownership, technology leadership, and governance to scale edge computing across meter-based applications and the DI platform.

You will shape strategy, manage deployments, ensure cybersecurity and reliability, and collaborate with grid operations, IT, vendors, and regulatory stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of relevant IT, Operational Technology, utility technology, product management, or enterprise systems experience.
• 7 years working directly with complex enterprise technology platforms, distributed systems, AMI technologies, utility operational systems, or related solutions.
• Demonstrated track record supporting complex and high-profile technical support and administration of critical infrastructure, monitoring and management systems (e.g., network, transport, systems, APM, automation, provisioning, configuration management, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, governance, and lifecycle management of PG&E's Distributed Intelligence ecosystem.
• Lead integration of Distributed Intelligence capabilities across grid operations, analytics, and enterprise systems.
• Govern application deployment, release management, platform performance, and operational readiness.
• Drive operational excellence, reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement of DI services.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and develop business cases supporting grid modernization initiatives.
• Manage vendor partnerships and influence product roadmaps to meet PG&E business objectives.
• Establish deployment governance and risk management frameworks for meter-hosted applications.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership and stakeholder engagement across business and IT organizations.
• Represent PG&E as a Distributed Intelligence leader in industry forums, utility collaborations, and strategic technology initiatives.
• Define enterprise architecture, standards, cybersecurity, and operating models for meter-based applications and edge computing platforms.

Skills

Distributed Intelligence

Edge Computing

Product Ownership

Stakeholder Engagement

Enterprise IT/OT

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

PL/SQL

Transact-SQL

SOAP

REST

XML

XSD

Kafka

Databricks

Job description

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is seeking a hands-on leader to own the Distributed Intelligence ecosystem within the Electric AMI program. The role blends product ownership, technology leadership, and governance to scale edge computing across meter-based applications and the DI platform.

You will shape strategy, manage deployments, ensure cybersecurity and reliability, and collaborate with grid operations, IT, vendors, and regulatory stakeholders.