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Delivery Lead – CO, TX, MN, WI Job
Location(s): MN – Minneapolis; CO – Denver; TX – Amarillo; WI – Eau Claire
Telecommuting Policy: A plan has been created to officially rollout a hybrid work-from-home option that will take effect this September. This position will participate inthis new policy. The policy requires working in the office 20% every week.
At the Digital Operations Factory, you’ll work with inspiring, bold, and thoughtful digital natives to deliver transformational change in radically new ways. Using an approach grounded in agile and design thinking, we’re designing and developing new technologies alongside teams dedicated to implementing those technologies in parallel with redesigned core business processes.
We’re modernizing Xcel’s technology foundations, setting up a cloud environment that is able to launch new capabilities into production weekly, and delivering enhanced customer and employee experiences.
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a difference, a team that is going to challenge the status quo, and an environment in which you can continue to grow and develop as a technical leader, look no further than Xcel Energy’s Digital Operations Factory.
Position Summary
The Digital Ops Factory (DOF) Delivery Lead owns the development delivery process and leads the Development team to continuously improve it. The DL will drive the teams engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment. The DL is a hands-on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems. The DL helps increase speed of delivery, improve quality/security of code, and optimize processes for development team.
The DL manages the team responsible for infrastructure-as-code deployment tooling and supporting services on multiple cloud provides along with metrics and login.
Essential Responsibilities
* Solution Delivery: Lead and support solution lifecycle technical activities. Ensure solutions are designed for great user experience and operational performance. Lead design, ensuring Enterprise Architecture, Security, Operations and Compliance aspects are continuously integrated into solutions. Provide input to cost and schedule estimation.
Responsible for overall integrity of system design and operation. Oversee vendor activities.
* Relationship Management: Conduct peer reviews and approve system changes and technical solution design. Coach and mentor less experience team members. Partner cross-organizationally to drive minimal costs on optimal solutions.
Provide in-depth technical information to stakeholders as needed.
* Strategy & Planning: Innovate through usage of industry emerging capabilities and evolving customer needs. Provide input to strategic roadmap and technical dependencies.
* Subject Matter Expertise: Continuously stay current on, and apply, technical industry knowledge pertaining to the respective domain
* Operations: Review solution performance, and continually assess health of systems. Track and drive awareness to operational and technical debt risks. Provide escalated support to incident and problem management.
Utilize analytics to improve availability, reliability, efficiency and capacity. Oversee vendor activities.
Minimum Requirements
* Ten years of related functional experience
* Bachelors degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
* Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill set, and able to translate between technical and non-technical concepts.
* Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results
* Expertise managing the lifecycle of technical solutions
* Deep Subject Matter Expertise within the respective system domain products, platforms, processes and architecture.
* Broad and deep knowledge of technology architecture, infrastructure, network, security and software principles and models
* Experience working in partnership with internal and external vendors.
* Excellent analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
* Extensive knowledge of future technology trends within area of expertise.
* Demonstrated leadership on technical aspects of large-scale projects.
* Experience coaching other developers in system deployment or operational troubleshooting.
* Experience with delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum) and operational models (ITIL) Experience and understanding of core IT Service Management functions, such as Change Management and Incident Management
Preferred
* Agile certified
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As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If youre ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.
Posting Notes: MN – Minneapolis || MN – Minneapolis; CO – Denver; TX – Amarillo; WI – Eau Claire || United States (US) || Customer And Innovation || 55000:Business Systems || Full-Time || Non-Bargaining ||
The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $94,500 to $134,166 per year
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Requisition Number: 35163
Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran
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