Director, Program Management - Digital Infrastructure

invenergyllc; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Invenergy is seeking a Director, Integrated Energy Projects to lead the program that coordinates energy solutions for large data center developments. The role spans grid supply, renewables, storage, transmission, and infrastructure, aligning multiple workstreams into a single executable energy strategy.

The position requires strong energy‑development and program leadership experience, with the ability to drive integration across technology teams, validate analyses, and ensure alignment with

Qualifications

• Experience leading energy projects for large data centers and multi‑stream programs.
• Strong ability to align technology, schedule, and capital requirements.
• Proven leadership across diverse engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as program leader for integrated energy solutions across multiple workstreams.
• Define energy architecture role, phasing, and interactions of grid, renewables, storage, and transmission.
• Translate data center load requirements into coordinated energy/workstream needs.
• Maintain the integrated program plan with milestones, interfaces, and responsibilities.
• Lead analyses to validate the overall energy solution and assess tradeoffs.
• Identify conflicts and drive resolution to protect schedules and interconnection milestones.

Skills

Program leadership

Energy architecture

Grid integration

Data center load modeling

Tools

Power systems analysis

Interconnection processes

Job description

Invenergy is North America's largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of power infrastructure. With 25 years of trusted execution, we deliver reliable, affordable energy through a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, solar, land-based wind, energy storage, transmission, and domestic manufacturing. Headquartered in Chicago, we develop, own, and operate large scale projects that power communities and support the energy future.

Invenergy follows a hybrid schedule, working in office Monday through Thursday and remotely on Fridays if work permits.

This position will be open for application for at least 3 calendar days from the posting date. This position will remain open for application based on business need, which may be before or after the 3-day posting window.

Job Description

Position Overview

Invenergy is seeking a Director, Integrated Energy Projects to join its Digital Infrastructure business line. This individual will serve as the program leader responsible for integrating the energy and infrastructure solutions required to support large-scale data center developments. The Director will work across Invenergy's renewable generation, thermal generation, geothermal, battery energy storage, transmission and grid integration, and data center development teams to bring multiple independently managed workstreams together into one coordinated and executable energy solution.

This is not a discipline-specific engineering role, a sales or origination role, or a traditional PMO position. Individual technology and functional teams will retain responsibility for developing and executing their respective assets and workstreams. The Director will be accountable for integration across those efforts-driving the overall energy architecture, critical interfaces, sequencing, system-level decisions, and alignment with the data center's power requirements.

The role will support complex data center developments ranging from individual facilities to multi-building campuses requiring hundreds of megawatts or more of power. Energy solutions may include combinations of grid supply, renewable generation, dispatchable generation, geothermal, battery storage, transmission infrastructure, and other emerging technologies.

The successful candidate will bring strong energy-development and program leadership experience, with the technical judgment to understand how multiple power technologies and infrastructure systems interact as one system. This individual must be able to identify required analyses, challenge assumptions, reconcile competing workstreams, frame major tradeoffs, and drive teams toward an integrated solution that is reliable, executable, and aligned with project schedule and capital requirements.

This is an opportunity to help establish Invenergy's integrated energy delivery model for Digital Infrastructure-connecting the company's generation, storage, grid, and infrastructure capabilities into scalable solutions for large-load data center projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the program leader for integrated energy solutions supporting assigned data center developments, coordinating multiple generation, storage, grid, and infrastructure workstreams into a unified strategy and execution plan.
• Lead development of the integrated energy architecture, defining the role, phasing, and interaction of grid supply, renewable generation, dispatchable generation, geothermal, battery storage, transmission infrastructure, and other technologies based on load requirements, reliability objectives, speed-to-power, project economics, and execution constraints.
• Translate data center load requirements-including capacity, phasing, load ramp, firming requirements, reliability, redundancy, grid import/export limits, operating constraints, backup strategy, and future expansion-into coordinated requirements for the underlying energy and infrastructure workstreams.
• Establish and maintain the integrated program plan, including major milestones, dependencies, interfaces, decision points, critical-path items, and responsibilities across individual technology and infrastructure teams.
• Lead integration of the technical analyses required to validate the overall energy solution, including load and generation profiles, dispatchability, intermittency, storage sizing, grid interactions, operating constraints, reliability and redundancy, and islanding or backup scenarios where applicable.
• Evaluate system-level alternatives and tradeoffs across reliability, speed-to-power, capital cost, operating cost, execution risk, permitting, interconnection, scalability, and operational complexity, bringing together the appropriate subject-matter experts and decision-makers.
• Identify conflicts, gaps, and dependencies among individual workstreams and drive resolution before they affect development schedules, interconnection, permitting, construction sequencing, capital planning, or data center energization milestones.
• Coordinate clos