Senior Data Platform Engineer
Xcel EnergyDenver, CO
Full Time
Posted October 7, 2026
$130k - $165k
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 8, 2026
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- 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 inovation 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.
- Five or more years of hands-on experience administering and supporting the Databricks Lakehouse Platform in AWS and/or GCP environments.
- Experience with AWS and GCP cloud services, including IAM roles and policies, service accounts, networking, storage, security integration, and resource governance.
- Experience administering Unity Catalog and enterprise identity, access, security, and data governance controls.
- Experience developing and supporting scalable data ingestion solutions using Databricks Lakeflow, ZeroBus, and other Databricks-native ingestion capabilities.
- Experience integrating Databricks with external applications, BI tools, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, ingestion platforms, and ETL/ELT technologies.
- Experience with Databricks Lakebase, including connectivity, security, administration, and application integration.
- Experience designing and supporting Lakehouse Federation and secure federated data access across platforms and data sources.
- Experience configuring, deploying, and maintaining Databricks workspaces, clusters, and associated cloud resources using infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL, Python, Apache Spark, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, MLOps, and Databricks Asset Bundles.
- Experience monitoring and optimizing Databricks performance, reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and cloud costs.
- Experience managing platform releases, upgrades, backup strategies, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with data engineering, data science, BI, infrastructure, architecture, security, operations, and business teams to deliver enterprise Databricks solutions.
- Experience in the utility or energy industry is a plus.
- 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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