Energy Analytics Lead, Data Center Forecasting

Meta; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 197,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Manager of Energy Analytics to lead the forecasting, modeling, and strategic analysis for our global data center portfolio. You will build and scale a distributed team, develop standards and governance, and partner with Infrastructure and Finance leadership to drive energy efficiency, rate design, and cost optimization.

The role requires deep expertise in energy data, forecasting, and scenario analysis, with travel up to 30%.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of direct people management experience, including managing a team through growth and change
• Hands-on experience analyzing and interpreting energy usage data, electric tariffs, and wholesale energy market data
• Experience owning forecasting or analytical models used in budgeting, capacity, or investment decisions
• Experience building or materially scaling an analytical capability rather than inheriting an established one
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with large data sets
• Communication and data visualization skills
• experience developing narratives and communicating effectively with multiple stakeholders and leadership
• Experience training, mentoring, and leading analytics professionals, and experience developing team members at different points in their career
• Background establishing programmatic approaches to work, supporting teams, and developing cross-functional relationships
• Experience prioritizing across competing stakeholder demands and communicating trade-offs

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of energy analysts spanning data center portfolio analytics, clean and renewable projects, cost and rate analysis, and load and generation forecasting.
• Own hiring, onboarding, capacity planning, and team structure as the function scales
• Develop ICs and emerging team leads
• establish career pathways, calibration practices, and succession depth so the team's analytical capability is not concentrated in any single person
• Lead with accountability, transparency, and recognition, promoting continuous improvement and learning across the team
• Serve as an expert on energy rates and energy usage for Meta's growing global portfolio of data centers
• Own development and continuous improvement of models to forecast energy usage, generation, and cost, and to analyze electric rate impacts for current and future data center sites
• Set and enforce analytical standards across the team, covering methodology review, model documentation, version control, assumption governance, and QA of outputs used in financial and capacity decisions
• Support analysis and strategy for development of new rate structures for current and future data center locations, including in new and emerging markets
• Strengthen how the team characterizes uncertainty in its forecasts, moving beyond single point estimates toward ranges and scenario views that reflect price and volume variability, historical forecast error, and concentration by market, technology, and contract type
• Help establish and scale an energy risk quantification capability within Energy Operations, building the systems that measure Meta's exposure to energy price and volume volatility and partnering with Finance to define the analytics and reporting cadence that surface material exposure shifts early
• Build standardized tooling, data pipelines, and reporting that scale with the portfolio, reducing manual effort and streamlining communication of data and impact to the broader organization and leadership team
• Consolidate fragmented energy data across utility, market, and internal backend sources into durable, queryable data products with clear ownership
• Own the data controls and escalation paths that keep utility and market data reliable as transaction volume increases
• Lead development and delivery of monthly and annual summaries of key energy metrics to the Global Energy team, Infrastructure partners, Finance, and senior leadership
• Build strong partnerships with Infrastructure stakeholders to track data center design and capacity engineering trends, improve load forecasting methodologies, and support energy efficiency efforts
• provide energy expertise to diverse internal teams and coordinate on relevant issues and requirements
• Represent energy analytics in cross-functional planning forums, translating analytical findings into clear recommendations and trade-offs for non-specialist audiences
• Refine processes, planning cycles, and reviews to support decision making, prioritization, and tracking of progress across key stakeholders
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed (up to 30%)

Skills

People management

Forecasting & analytics

Energy rates knowledge

Data visualization

Stakeholder communication

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Python

Job description

Meta is seeking a Manager of Energy Analytics to lead the forecasting, modeling, and strategic analysis for our global data center portfolio. You will build and scale a distributed team, develop standards and governance, and partner with Infrastructure and Finance leadership to drive energy efficiency, rate design, and cost optimization.

The role requires deep expertise in energy data, forecasting, and scenario analysis, with travel up to 30%.