Director of Transformation Technology Delivery, Integrations Lead

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

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Position Summary:

The Customer Core Integration Delivery Lead is the accountable Xcel Energy leader for integration delivery across the program. This role owns both halves of the integration picture: the SAP integrations built on BTP, and the integration and application remediation required for edge systems that connect to the new CIS.

The Director of Transformation Technology Delivery is responsible for leading the day-to-day execution of technology delivery within major transformation programs. The role oversees planning, coordination, and delivery across multiple technology domains, ensuring that solutions are built, tested, and deployed in alignment with program objectives, regulatory timelines, and enterprise standards.

This position partners closely with IT operations, business readiness, change management, architecture, PMO, and vendor teams to ensure integrated delivery and successful transition to ongoing support. The Director provides both strategic and tactical leadership across delivery teams, manages program risks and issues, and ensures value realization through disciplined execution and effective stakeholder engagement.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Partner with integration architects to apply the approved integration strategy, ISA-M patterns and clean-core principles, and make sure every interface has a clear pattern decision (application-to-application, B2B, API-managed or event-driven).
- Drive integration monitoring, error handling and alerting standards so that interfaces are operable on day one, not just functional.
- Lead delivery of integration and application remediation for retained edge applications.
- Coordinate remediation across enterprise middleware and API platforms, including ACE/APIC, SeeBurger, MFT, IICS, and customer APIs on Apigee and AWS services.
- Plan and govern integration shutdown and recommissioning for edge applications scheduled for retirement once the new CIS becomes the system of record.
- Build and maintain an integrated integration delivery plan that aligns BTP and edge work to the program release roadmap, test cycles, freeze periods and customer experience protection windows.
- Hold the system integrator and vendors accountable for scope, quality, schedule and estimates; review deliverables and resolve escalations.
- Own integration risks, issues, dependencies and decisions, and report status, readiness and trade-offs clearly to program and IT leadership.
- Coordinate closely with architecture, data conversion, testing, security, infrastructure and network teams, and with business process owners.
- Develop and mentor Xcel Energy integration staff and contractors so that integration capability remains in-house after go-live.

Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of experience in IT program delivery, systems implementation, technology operations, or utility-focused IT roles with minimum 5 years of leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience delivering large-scale or multi-tower technology initiatives.
- Strong understanding of integrated utility systems, modernization, and cross-platform delivery practices.
- Proven ability to manage both internal and vendor delivery teams in a matrixed environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with ability to resolve issues in complex, fast-moving program environments.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to translate delivery needs for business partners.

Preferred Requirements:

- Hands-on delivery experience with API management and event-driven patterns.
- Working knowledge of enterprise middleware and API platforms such as IBM ACE/APIC, Apigee, AWS integration services, MFT and B2B/EDI tools.
- Proven ability to manage system integrator and vendor delivery, including scope, estimates, quality gates and escalations.
- Clear, direct communication with both technical teams and senior leaders.
- Utility industry experience, particularly with meter-to-cash processes and applications.

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Non-Bargaining
The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $148,400.00 to $210,733.33 per year
This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Long Term Incentive, 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

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

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Deadline to Apply: 10/14/26

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