Xcel Energy

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Design and implement a strategic approach to aggregation and prioritization of the 5-year strategic plan across Operations encompassing Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Gas and Nuclear organizations.
• Develop unique methods, evaluation criteria and solutions to assemble, model and prioritize the capital and operations and maintenance budgets for the multi-year planning cycle.
• Conduct asset and technology lifecycle analysis to inform long-term resource planning and modernization strategies.
• Provide project management and strategic support on cross-commodity planning and execution.
• Lead a team of budget planning professionals and analysts.
• Liaison Operations, the Operating Companies, and CFO organizations to achieve financial and operational objectives.
• Develop and manage a risk-informed project prioritization process, across all projects in the Operations enterprise.
• Influence multi-year budget plans that enable system transformation while balancing system reliability and customer cost.
• Drive change and produce recommendation through continuous improvement of existing analytical structures.

Director, Strategic Planning – Portfolio Analysis

Operations

• Supervise a high performing operations team while driving the safe, efficient and cost-effective use of resources according to policies and procedures.
• Assure safe, reliable, and compliant operations and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Ensure consistent and effective use of standard tools and processes.
• Support attainment of corporate and business unit goals and objectives, and process and performance metrics.
• Serve as a strong communicator of key strategic and operational changes.
• Provide visible safety leadership and drive real time safety accountability by engaging employees/crew through safety meeting facilitation, job briefs, audits, training, accident investigation/event assessment, and job site observations.
• Work in close partnership with Safety Consultant.
• Evaluate team performance based on operational efficiency, reliability and quality metrics; monitor trends, and take corrective action where appropriate.
• Ensure and reinforce the importance of process adherence and data integrity.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes through effective communication of expectations and objectives.
• Responsible for crew productivity and quality of execution.
• Maintain a consistent presence in the work environment.
• Assist in removing barriers with pre-requisites, materials, stakeholder, and other issues.
• Align crew skills and availability to work activities through coordinators, planners, and schedulers, prioritizing customer satisfaction and reliability.
• Recruit talented employees, establish clear performance expectations and effectively manage performance.
• Provide training, coaching and oversight and drive employee engagement.

Operations Supervisor – Electric Metering

Software Engineer

• Provides strategic leadership and technical direction for all engineering oversight functions supporting the Major Projects Group, across all Xcel Energy operating companies.
• Accountable for the safety, quality, timeliness, and cost-effectiveness of engineering deliverables for the company's most complex, critical and high-value capital projects.
• Serves as the enterprise engineering authority for major projects, with responsibility for overseeing an internal team of engineers and directing a significant complement of professional engineering consultant resources across multiple disciplines — civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and controls acting as Owner’s Engineers on behalf of the company.
• Ensures engineering designs comply with all applicable codes, company standards, and regulatory requirements while supporting safe, reliable, and cost-effective project execution across the full project lifecycle, from feasibility through commissioning and close-out.
• Anticipates and positions the engineering organization to meet future business requirements in a dynamic environment, while leading critical partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the attainment of corporate and business unit goals and objectives.
• Ensures engineering deliverables — including certified designs, drawing packages, specifications, models, and procurement support — are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and in full compliance with applicable codes, standards, and regulations.
• Directs and manages a team of engineers, including internal engineers and a significant complement of professional engineering consultants.
• Establishes performance expectations, assesses the quality of engineering deliverables delivered by construction partners, and holds all internal and external resources accountable for results.
• Prepares and supports regulatory filings (CPCNs, route permits, rate case filings) as they relate to engineering scope, design, and technical requirements.

Director Engineering – Major Projects Group, Linear Assets

Vice President

• Oversee the strategic planning, development, and execution of utility-scale renewable (wind, solar, battery storage), dispatchable gas generation and other carbon free technology projects
• Manage a multidisciplinary team and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver a large volume of high-impact energy infrastructure investments
• Define and execute long-term strategies for renewable, gas generation and emerging technology development
• Align project development with corporate decarbonization goals and integrated resource plans
• Evaluate emerging technologies such as geothermal, long duration storage, nuclear and carbon-free fuels for integration into generation portfolios
• Lead all phases of project development including site selection, permitting, interconnection, stakeholder engagement, and financial structuring
• Lead a highly matrixed project development function to ensure coordination and alignment with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Support diligence of project acquisitions
• Direct/coordinate supply chain selection, scheduling, cost estimating, and risk management for large-scale projects
• Manage project bids for submission into ongoing Operating Company Resource Plan RFPs
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of project managers, engineers, schedulers, and cost controllers
• Oversee organizational design and talent development to support growth and execution capacity
• Collaborate with internal regulatory and policy teams to prepare, file and secure approvals for projects
• Cultivate relationships with developers, OEMs, EPCs, and community stakeholders
• Originate and advance competitive generation projects through strategic partnerships

AVP, Project Development

Data Analyst

• This position leads the program development, implementation, and management to capture, maintain, and analyze data & work processes accurately and consistently for operational, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Plays a crucial role in handling and analyzing large datasets to uncover valuable insights.
• Uses statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and data visualization techniques to interpret complex data and translate the data findings into actionable business strategies that support data-driven decision-making.
• Assists in developing predictive models, automating data collection processes and ensuring data quality and integrity.
• Responsible for obtaining, creating, and analyzing data to monitor business performance & create/generate operational.
• Identifies performance trends and areas for improvement.
• Leads the development & implementation of technology, information systems, and strategies targeted at the maintenance/tracking of data ensuring compliance with all business, customer, and regulatory requirements.
• Liaison to other business areas regarding data quality & use for business reporting.
• Directs the formation, development, and implementation of tools specifically designed to improve the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of data.
• Tracks & reports performance results.
• In cooperation with leadership, identifies actions to improve performance and/or performance tracking.
• Monitors associated change management within the business to prepare for, adopt, and sustain business changes.
• Oversees the development & maintenance of appropriate project tracking tools, system enhancements.
• Supports cross-functional collaboration in the development & tracking of business improvements supporting data management processes.
• Finds new opportunities in statistical analysis, predictive analytics, and transforming data into information with appropriate business context.
• Investigates complex data table structures to identify data relationships & the location of required data.
• Validates accuracy of the extraction or query results.
• Leads the development/implementation of technology addressing the gathering of data with regard to Capital improvements, equipment removal, ongoing maintenance, and operation of assets.
• Recognized as the key S.M.E. with leadership to understand business challenges & forge a partnering relationship for problem solving.
• Clarifies data requirements, manages expectations, and enhances organization's credibility, transparency, and partnership within Xcel and its vendor relationships.
• Supports an environment of continuous improvement & learning to foster skill development.

Data Performance Analyst

Analyst

• Design and implement complex gas supply, transportation, and storage service plans
• Perform complex modeling for various supply alternatives to ensure portfolio reliability and cost optimization
• Negotiate gas transportation and storage agreements
• Perform financial analysis of interstate and intrastate pipelines rates
• Provide expert testimony and negotiate rate case settlements
• Share knowledge and train others in these job skills

Senior Gas Resource Planning Analyst

Data Scientist

• An Associate Data Scientist will play a crucial role in handling and analyzing large datasets to uncover valuable insights.
• They utilize statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and data visualization techniques to interpret complex data.
• By collaborating with cross-functional teams, they help translate data findings into actionable business strategies, thereby supporting data-driven decision-making processes.
• Additionally, they may assist in developing predictive models, automating data collection processes, and ensuring data quality and integrity.
• This position often serves as a foundational step towards more advanced roles in data science, providing essential skills and experience in the field.
• Familiar in working with the two primary languages - SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques and algorithms.
• Experience with data visualization tools like Posit or Power BI.
• Understand key concepts related to managing and analyzing large datasets.

Associate Data Scientist – Distribution

Full-stack Engineer

• Viewed as the technical engineer or subject matter expert for the organization in the application of advanced theories, concepts, principles, and processes in power systems modeling and analysis and/or transmission planning.
• Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts.
• Responsible for major project or several complex projects of moderate to large scope.
• Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and/or programs.
• Acts as advisor to management and customers on advanced technical research studies and applications.
• Works under consultative direction toward broad general goals and objectives.
• Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results.
• May lead multiple critical and/or complex projects.

Transmission Planning Engineer – Principal, Senior, Staff, Entry

• Focused on understanding the current state of planning processes and driving toward integration through tools and automation.
• Set assumptions and perform integrated technical analysis as a distribution planning subject matter expert.
• Develop new insights, recommendations, and reports to support business decisions and major initiatives.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively, using appropriate data visualization.
• Applies extensive technical expertise and full knowledge of related disciplines.
• Perform complex or innovative assignments requiring new techniques and procedures.
• Represent the organization as the prime technical contact on contracts and projects.
• Interact with senior external personnel on significant technical matters.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
• Responsible for continuous self-development of technical skills and competencies.

Senior Distribution Planning Engineer

• Leads and performs modeling and analysis activities for steady state and stability simulations
• Develops scopes for studies to guide long-range transmission system plans and coordinates with other Integrated System Planning departments to ensure assumptions align across subdisciplines
• Effectively communicates the results of studies and department endeavors to a wide range of audiences through written and verbal means
• Improves Integrated System Planning procedures and techniques through largely self-directed work
• Resolves difficult technical and business problems
• Implements, without substantial direction, NERC and FERC compliance activities as an SME
• Assigns tasks to lower-level engineers, interns and technicians
• Mentors and provides training materials for less experienced engineers

Senior Transmission Planning Engineer

• Owns the operating rhythm and strategic planning cadence for a multi-team IT portfolio
• Partners with portfolio leadership to translate strategy into a defensible quarterly plan
• Runs the meetings that keep delivery teams aligned
• Contributes to resourcing and financial planning decisions
• Consults with leaders on identifying goals to be achieved by the business area
• Responsible to ensure that business unit strategies are integrated across the business area
• Facilitates the process to create an implementation plan
• Designs and facilitates the use of systematic tools and techniques e.g., SWOT analysis, to identify priority issues
• Monitors progress of plans against business results
• Owns the end-to-end quarterly planning lifecycle: Strategy Session, Pre-Planning, Planning event, Read-Out, and Retro
• Sets agendas, facilitates sessions, coordinates logistics, and drives follow-through on outcomes
• Maintains portfolio artifacts: planning decks, org charts, SharePoint site, and supporting documentation
• Ensures the effective delivery of strategic communications around all business area activities
• Leverages business area systems and data to identify, develop and deliver impactful metrics and other analytics and/or automated solutions
• Works with leaders within the business area to develop, implement, and monitor the budget

Senior Consultant, Portfolio Strategy – Operations

Content Marketing Manager

• Design and govern AEM content models (Content Fragment Models, Editable Templates, Core Components, and Edge Delivery Services blocks) and the headless delivery standards that go with them, including GraphQL queries, Content Fragment APIs, persisted queries, and caching strategy.
• Own the composable-content strategy: structured content that decouples authoring from delivery and supports an instant Dark Sky Emergency Response pivot without code deployment.
• Own AEM Assets as the enterprise DAM end-to-end: metadata schemas, Smart Tags, taxonomy, folder architecture, collections, and the full asset lifecycle from single- and bulk-ingestion through versioning, expiration, takedown, and archival.
• Govern asset rights, licensing, and DRM, including talent rights, geographic restrictions, license windows and embargoes, watermarking, and immutable audit logs.
• Stand up and enforce C2PA content credentials and provenance for AI-generated creative, especially safety-critical media for outage, restoration, and hazard scenarios.
• Model structured content for dynamic energy-data surfaces (bills, usage, outage status, program eligibility) so the same content powers web, mobile, email, and AI experiences without rework.
• Design and operate approval and review workflow orchestration in AEM and Workfront, including multistep approvals, conditional routing, and regulatory, legal, and brand review gates with automated status tracking from draft through archive.
• Own API-first interoperability across the martech and enterprise stack, including CMS, PIM, MAP, CDP, AEP, creative tools, and CDNs, so assets, metadata, and performance signals flow bidirectionally across the ecosystem.
• Establish a granular permissions and access model and stand up a cross-functional governance forum (brand, legal, compliance, IT, product, and business-unit representatives) that reviews proposed model and taxonomy changes for reuse, state-level adaptation, accessibility, and regulatory archival before approval.
• Partner with the AEP Data Engineer on XDM content schemas and content-event instrumentation, with Content Strategy on upstream taxonomy, and with Creative Ops on asset intake.
• Drive adoption across business units through ongoing user training, enablement, and change-management programming, and keep the system trustworthy through periodic data-hygiene audits, metadata gap remediation, source-system mapping, and continuous quality-improvement cycles.
• Define and report DAM and content-architecture KPIs (time-to-find, asset reuse rate, compliance incidents, license-expiration exposure, adoption rates, search effectiveness, and integration health) and feed performance insights back to content, creative, and business teams.
• Manage DAM and content-platform vendor relationships: evaluate API-first design, GenAI governance, DRM, and compliance capabilities; review roadmaps against utility-specific needs; and track total cost of ownership.

Principal Digital Content Architect – DAM Lead

Customer Support

• Furnishes sales assistance by responding to customers' procedural questions on product lines, incentive applications, and other energy related issues.
• Provides analytic, computer-based support for sales databases to reps.
• Prepares rate analyses, contracts, proposals and sales presentations.
• Responds to customer and third-party requests for billing histories.
• Monitors and provides reports on call handling performance.
• Provides out bound sales follow-up.
• Serves as a liaison with the Xcel Marketing fulfillment function.
• Supports achievement of sales, customer satisfaction, and customer service goals by extracting, analyzing and organizing data in accurate, concise and professional formats.
• Aids in the successful implementation and maintenance of the customer relationship management tool for the Mass Market.
• Requires close communication with Sales Support Specialists in other locations.

Sales Support Specialist

Business Analyst

• Partner with talent management team to develop and deploy processes, programs, and materials using a range of delivery methods and technologies.
• Serve as an internal consultant to the talent management team on design and user experience, translating draft concepts into polished, user‑centered final products.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and learning modalities (e.g., digital, mobile, video, social learning) and apply them appropriately.
• Support the execution of talent management programs and initiatives, including coordination of meetings, communications, logistics, reporting and analysis.
• Lead projects and workstreams to completion, managing timelines, deliverables, and budget considerations.
• Track progress and key performance indicators, identifying opportunities to improve program administration, operational processes and user experience.
• Provide support for program offerings, including scheduling and facilitation logistics.
• Serve as the primary administrator for the Viva GLINT platform to support engagement, 360 feedback, lifecycle and ad-hoc surveys.
• Configure surveys, support data administration, and ensure accurate deployment across employee populations.
• Partner with Talent Management and HR stakeholders to support survey launches, reporting readiness, and operational execution.
• Ensure platform usage aligns with established governance, data standards, and listening strategy.
• Manage ongoing relationships with select external vendors supporting talent management and employee listening solutions.
• Serve as the day‑to‑day contract and vendor liaison, tracking renewals, deliverables, and service performance.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure vendor solutions meet business needs and contractual commitments in alignment with approved vendor strategy and procurement requirements.
• Design, lead, and execute the content management process for the Talent Management team.
• Ensure all published content is reviewed, refreshed, and maintained on a regular cycle to support accuracy, clarity, and usability.
• Establish standards and processes to improve consistency and ease of access to talent management resources.

Senior Talent Management Analyst

• Supervise a high performing, safe operations team across multiple functions, facilities, or commodities while driving the efficient and cost-effective use of numerous resources through consistent and effective application of policies and procedures.
• Assure safe, reliable, and compliant operations, drive continuous improvement, and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Drive attainment of corporate and business unit strategies, goals and objectives, and process and performance metrics.
• Provide visible safety leadership and actively contribute to the creation, implementation, and continuous improvement of a strong, sustainable safety culture in partnership with Safety Consultant.
• Drive real time safety accountability by engaging the team through safety meeting participation, job briefs, audits, training, accident investigation/event assessment, and job site observations.
• Evaluate team performance based on operational efficiency, reliability and quality metrics and take corrective action where appropriate, focusing on process adherence and data integrity.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive adoption of process changes through effective collaboration and expectation setting.
• Provide direct leadership over crew effectiveness, quality and productivity.
• Maintain a continuous presence in the work environment and assist in removing barriers with pre-requisites, materials, stakeholder, and other issues.
• Ensure correct crew composition and skills are in place to meet operational, reliability, customer and financial objectives.
• Assist in preparing resource forecasts and providing input to longer-term work plans.
• Recruit talented employees, participate in workforce and development planning efforts, establish clear expectations, and effectively manage performance.
• Provide training, coaching and oversight and drive employee engagement.
• Effectively represent the organization in bargaining unit discussions, grievances, corrective actions and development.
• Build and maintain effective internal and external relationships with areas that support Operations.
• Provide strong working knowledge of necessary systems and resources to assist employees, other work groups, and/or customers and stakeholders.
• Enable crews to provide solutions to issues and improve customer/stakeholder satisfaction.
• Oversee and coordinate the execution and documentation of work in accordance with Xcel Energy policies and procedures, labor agreements, and regulatory standards.
• Support and ensure required compliance and technical training is completed. Establish, monitor, and track processes to ensure regulatory compliance.