engineering
Posted 2 days agoSenior Data Product Engineer
at Xcel Energy
Minneapolis, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize queries, transformations, and data models on Databricks and enterprise BI platforms.
- Ensure products are documented, performant, and fit for reuse.
- Develop reusable templates, patterns, and self-service assets that reduce dependence on central delivery.
- Investigate and resolve data quality and performance issues through root cause analysis.
- Make timely, value-based delivery decisions within the product team.
- Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise standards, classification, lineage, and security requirements.
- Promote high standards for data quality, documentation, and continuous improvement in analytics delivery practices.
- Integrate AI and generative AI capabilities into data products to drive automation, advanced analytics, and scalable insight generation across business domains. Minimum
Requirements
- This role blends hands-on analytics engineering with an enablement focus, building data products against the enterprise certification framework while coaching federated business teams to build to standards themselves.
- Enablement & Capability Transfer (30%): Coach federated business teams and domain analysts to build and extend analytics to enterprise standards on Databricks (Xcel Data Fabric).
- Enable business users on Databricks, Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, and BusinessObjects.
- Standards, Quality & Governance (15%): Apply the enterprise data product certification framework and risk-based guardrails appropriate to each product.
- Requirements Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, Information Systems, Business Administration, IT, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 5+ years of
- experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or analytics engineering roles. Strong hands-on
- experience with SQL, data modeling, and analytics platforms such as Power BI. Databricks
- Experience enabling or coaching business users on self-service analytics.
- Familiarity with data governance, classification, and data quality concepts.
- Experience participating in Agile delivery teams. Preferred
- Experience building certified or reusable data products in a federated or data mesh operating model.
- Experience in regulated or operationally critical environments.
- Familiarity with semantic layers and metric standardization across analytics solutions 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.
Benefits
- Position Summary The Senior Data Product Engineer delivers and curates certified data products within a defined business data domain, turning the Data Product Owner’s vision and backlog into trusted, reusable analytics assets on the enterprise data platform.
- Non-Bargaining The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $97,600.00 to $138,600.00 per year This position is eligible for the following
- 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
Contact
- Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at recruiting@xcelenergy.com .
- ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT Xcel Energy endeavors to make https://www.xcelenergy.com/ accessible to any and all users.
- If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact Xcel Energy Talent Acquisition at recruiting@xcelenergy.com.
Additional details
- Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow? A position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.
- The role enables business success by delivering well-modeled, governed data products that scale across the domain, by transferring capability to business users and domain analysts so delivery is not bottlenecked centrally, and by ensuring every product aligns to enterprise data platforms, standards, and architecture. Essential
- Responsibilities Data Product Delivery & Curation (35%): Build, curate, and maintain certified data products within an assigned business domain.
- Translate backlog items, user stories, and acceptance criteria into well-modeled datasets, semantic layers, and analytics solutions.
- Provide office hours, documentation, and knowledge transfer so capability scales across the domain.
- Analytics Engineering & Collaboration (20%): Partner with Data Product Owners, engineers, architects, governance, and security teams to deliver scalable solutions.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and backlog refinement.
- experience preferred (Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Lakehouse Monitoring, etc.).
- Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
- Requirements Gas and/or Electric Utility Industry experience preferred.