Principal Network Solution Lead
Xcel Energy414 Nicollet Mall, United States
Full Time
Posted November 2, 2026
$129k - $183k
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Listing evidence and provenance
- Source
- Workday View original listing
- Freshness
- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed November 3, 2026
- Classification
- Modern power-system classification not yet published for this listing.Legacy source industry field: Utilities
- Pay provenance
- Employer-provided pay
Job Description
Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe
Requirements
- Ten years of related functional experience.
- Bachelor's 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.
- Experience with Project or Product delivery practices, including SDLC, Agile and Waterfall.
- Demonstrated ability to recommend innovative solutions to support complex business requirements.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement through lean, agile, six sigma.
- Demonstrated in depth knowledge of end-to-end process and system capabilities, industry standards and emerging technologies and methods.
- Expertise in technical, functional, and operational details of respective solutions.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build functional and technical subject matter expertise, process and tools expertise, and drive consistency in processes.
- Experience with strategic planning, demand management, execution, and operation of IT solutions.
- Experience with contract and vendor management In-depth expertise on core IT components within the respective domain.
- Ten or more years of progressive experience in enterprise networking, telecommunications, infrastructure architecture or a related discipline, including highly available and geographically distributed networks.
- Demonstrated experience designing hybrid WAN solutions incorporating private fiber/OPGW, carrier Ethernet/MPLS, microwave, commercial LTE/5G, Private LTE, SD-WAN, and satellite connectivity.
- Strong understanding of IT/OT network integration and critical-infrastructure use cases, including SCADA, teleprotection, metering, voice, security and field mobility.
- Proven ability to develop architecture standards, reference designs, decision matrices and repeatable implementation patterns from business and technical requirements.
- Experience incorporating resiliency, path diversity, availability, latency, bandwidth, cybersecurity, segmentation, and encryption requirements into network designs.
- Experience carrying solutions from architecture through engineering validation, field deployment, testing, documentation, and operational handoff.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across Architecture, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Field Operations, OT/business organizations, sourcing, carriers, and technology vendors.
- Ability to evaluate technical alternatives using reliability, risk, lifecycle, deployment velocity, capital investment and recurring operating expense.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technology roadmaps, business cases and investment recommendations to senior leaders.
- Utility, energy, telecommunications or other critical-infrastructure experience and relevant advanced networking, security or architecture credentials are preferred.
- Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.
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