Hybrid Senior AI Governance Engineer

Xcel Energy; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Dependent Care FSA

Health Savings Account

Pension/401(k)

Paid time off

Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Xcel Energy invites applications for a senior role designing, building, and owning the technical capabilities that operationalize enterprise AI governance. You will work across Security, Architecture, Privacy, Legal, and Data Science teams, translating policy into enforceable controls and establishing reusable engineering patterns.

Based in a hybrid environment, you will mentor engineers, lead governance workstreams, and partner with data owners to deliver scalable data-management solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years in data management, data engineering, or data governance engineering.
• Advanced SQL and Python proficiency.
• Experience delivering end-to-end enterprise data management capabilities.
• Ability to design technical solutions across multiple data domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data quality frameworks across data domains.
• Design and implement metadata and lineage capture automation.
• Develop classification and access control patterns with policy support.
• Create reusable governance components, APIs, and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring within governance programs.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, platform engineering and security to translate policy into controls.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python

Data governance

Enterprise data management

Independent design decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Xcel Energy invites applications for a senior role designing, building, and owning the technical capabilities that operationalize enterprise AI governance. You will work across Security, Architecture, Privacy, Legal, and Data Science teams, translating policy into enforceable controls and establishing reusable engineering patterns.

Based in a hybrid environment, you will mentor engineers, lead governance workstreams, and partner with data owners to deliver scalable data-management solutions