
Senior Manager, IT – Operational Enterprise Security Services
Xcel Energy
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Minneapolis • Colorado • Minnesota • United States
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Salary
💰 $129,000 - $183,200 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead and manage the performance and development of staff.
- Lead priorities and manage work performance of staff, vendors and contractors.
- Understand the customers' needs, and partner to deliver innovative solutions.
- Ensure products and services operate in a lean, stable, and adaptable manner.
- Develop, propose and manage long and mid-term strategic technology plans and roadmaps for assigned products and services.
- Drive continuous improvement in IT performance.
- Proactively prevent and support prompt restoration of service disruptions.
- Lead day-to-day delivery of enterprise security operations, ensuring stable, resilient, and effective security services across the organization.
- Ensure security operations comply with internal policies and external regulatory requirements through clear ownership, documentation, and controls.
- Lead and coordinate security incident response and operational disruptions, providing timely and accurate communication to stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Build, lead, and develop high-performing operations teams, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and a strong security culture.
- Partner closely with IT, OT, Risk Management, Audit, and business leaders to align security operations with enterprise priorities.
- Manage operational budgets and capital investments, ensuring resources are aligned to risk reduction and measurable business outcomes.
- Communicate complex security and operational topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Technology, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
- Five years of prior people leadership experience
- Ten years of experience with end-to-end service lifecycle, business process, project or product management
- Five years of experience with strategic planning, portfolio prioritization, delivery execution, and operations.
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IT operations, or enterprise security, including leadership roles
- Strong knowledge of security operations, incident response, and risk management
- Experience working in regulated environments with audit and compliance requirements
- Proven ability to partner across IT, OT, and business teams
- Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets
- Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results
- Experience working within a highly regulated industry
- Ability to deliver value in compliance with policies and regulations
- Demonstrated ability to apply a customer focus, problem solve, and drive continuous improvement to solutions, systems and processes.
- Demonstrated ability to drive, adopt, and lead others through change in a diverse and dynamic environment
- Experience with Sourcing and Contract Management
- Proven ability to attain and hold in-depth acumen in business process, technical knowledge, and architectural topology.
Benefits
- Annual Incentive Program
- Medical/Pharmacy Plan
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
- Health Care Reimbursement Account
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
- Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
- Transportation Reimbursement Account
- Short-term disability (STD)
- Long-term disability (LTD)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit programs
- Employee recognition program
- Pension
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Holidays
- Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
- Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurityIT operationsenterprise securityincident responserisk managementstrategic planningproject managementbusiness process managementservice lifecycle managementportfolio prioritization
Soft Skills
people leadershipcommunication skillsrelationship managementcollaboration skillscustomer focusproblem solvingcontinuous improvementchange managementaccountabilityinnovation