Senior Technology Solution Consultant; SAP Asset Management

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.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Position Summary The Senior Technology Solution Consultant is a domain-aligned expert responsible for advising, translating, and aligning business needs with technology enablement during enterprise transformation/major initiatives across end-to-end solution lifecycle of Operations team at Xcel Energy. Operating at the intersection of business operations and system delivery, this role partners with technology teams, business stakeholders and implementation partners to ensure functional alignment, system usability and future state readiness.

The Senior Consultant applies deep domain expertise to guide solutioning, validate end-to-end design, and support change adoption across the transformation lifecycle.

The preferred candidate will be able to commute 3 days a week to our downtown Minneapolis office.

Essential Responsibilities Responsible for full life cycle implementation of SAP EAM business processes, from business requirements gathering through conducting business workshops, including gap analysis, blueprinting, design, configuration, testing, cutover, data migration, go-live, training, and post go-live support.

Contribute to the implementation and execution of the SAP EAM/Plant Maintenance processes and its integration with Utilities Field Execution solutions (SAP Asset Manager, SAP Field Service Management etc.) and GIS systems (ESRI, Small world etc.):
Asses current state, identify customer requirements and define future state and/or business solution.

Translate business needs into documented functional and technical solution requirements and validate feasibility.

Collaborate with implementation partners, architects, and engineering teams to guide solution design.

Validate functional design against end-to-end business processes, upstream/downstream impacts, and integration points.

Serve as domain SME across design, build, testing, migration, and deployment phases.

Facilitate cross functional design decisions and ensure alignment between business requirements and system capabilities.

Support impact assessment, solution traceability, readiness work, and design documentation.

Minimum Requirements Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of experience in a domain specific or system enabled or transformation role.

Strong understanding of enterprise systems and systems enabled business processes.

Advanced process and system thinking and functional solution literacy.

Strong stakeholder alignment, requirements shaping and cross functional influence skills.

Knowledge of integration points across business functions.

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