Environment Lead

Xcel Energy(NASDAQ:XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500company,dedicated toserving millions of electricity andnaturalgascustomersacross eight states:

Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota,New Mexicoand Texas.

We make energy work better forourcustomers, 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.

This role is responsible for environment readiness for the multiple test activities and phases including mock conversions, bill compare runs, integration test cycles, UAT, operational readiness testing and dress rehearsals. Environment readiness includes the right environments being ready, loaded with the right data and code, at the right time. The Environment Lead is the point of coordination for that work.

• Own the integrated environment calendar across the SAP S/4
  
  HANA CIS landscape (development, quality systems, staging, training and production) and edge system non-production environments.
• Coordinate environment readiness for each test cycle, including builds, connectivity, certificates, security hand-off and go/no-go checks.
• Orchestrate CI/CD and transport movement, keeping code and configuration aligned across environments.
• Plan and run data refreshes, client copies and database copies, and coordinate data population for conversion, bill compare, testing and training.
• Run environment booking, conflict resolution and change control so shared environments stay stable and predictable.
• Coordinate with SAP (RISE), Itron, Avaya and other vendors on environment setup, refresh windows and outages.
• Work closely with test and delivery leads.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of techno-functional experience in enterprise systems or transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of core business processes and system-enabled workflows.
• Experience with functional design, configuration guidance, testing, and system troubleshooting.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Ability to manage multiple functional tasks and collaborate cross functionally.

• SAP S/4
  
  HANA, RISE with SAP or SAP BTP environment experience.
• Utility industry or CIS modernization experience.
• Familiarity with Jira, Service Now and Dev Ops tooling.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for SAP or Salesforce.
• Very strong coordination and orchestration skills, with a proven record of aligning many technical environments, vendors and schedules to a single coordinated plan.

Xcel Energy provides jobapplicantsreasonable accommodations for disabilitiesthroughout the application process. If youare in need ofanaccommodationto complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form.

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