Principal Data Analyst

Next Era Energy Marketing is one of the nation’s leading electricity and natural gas marketers, and a key player in the energy markets in the United States and Canada. As a part of Next Era Energy Resources, we specialize in innovative energy strategies that maximize market value for our customers and stakeholders. Our team is skilled in market analysis, trading, risk management and delivering tailored customer solutions across North America.

If you are a strategic thinker eager to make a significant impact in the fast-paced energy industry, join our team today.

The Principal Data Analyst is responsible for ensuring data quality, integrity, and compliance throughout Next Era Energy's ETRM transformation project and ongoing operations. This role requires deep expertise in energy trading and risk management systems, particularly Open Link Endur, and the ability to independently manage data migration, cleansing, and governance activities across commodities including IR Swaps, Oil/Fuels, Environmentals, Natural Gas, and Power.

Success in this position demands strong analytical capabilities, project management skills, and the ability to collaborate with cross‑functional stakeholders to establish and maintain enterprise data standards.

• Lead end‑to‑end data migration efforts from legacy ETRM system to Open Link Endur across multiple commodities, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and completeness throughout the transformation.
• Design and execute comprehensive data validation strategies, identify data anomalies, and implement cleansing protocols to ensure trading, risk, and accounting data meet regulatory and SOX compliance requirements.
• Establish and enforce data governance policies, standards, and procedures that align with enterprise objectives and regulatory requirements; serve as subject matter expert for ETRM data architecture.
• Proactively identify and engage data owners across front office, middle office, back office, and accounting functions; track down data lineage and resolve discrepancies through collaborative problem solving.
• Act as project manager for data‑related work streams within the ETRM transformation project; manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Create and maintain comprehensive data dictionaries, mapping documents, and governance documentation to support ongoing operations and audit requirements.
• Partner with IT, Trading, Risk, Accounting, and Compliance teams to ensure data flows support business processes and reporting needs.
• Develop sustainable data maintenance protocols to preserve data quality and standards beyond project go‑live.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior analysts and business users on data governance best practices and ETRM system data structures.

This position implements and maintains on‑premises and cloud‑based company and product data infrastructure, including relational databases, non‑relational databases and any other data stores required by the company or its products. Employees in this role are responsible for creating processes and implementing software to facilitate management of data including, but not limited to, data pipelines, data catalogs, data governance, master data and overall data quality.

• Manages data acquisition and ingestion
• Manages and optimizes data access
• Sets strategic direction for data management programs and initiatives
• Designs, plans, implements and supports data infrastructure using both relational and non‑relational data
• Tests, validates and maintains data quality across all parts of data infrastructure
• Maintains and manages data pipelines and data catalogs
• Mentors others or leads teams and/or projects
• Monitors the health of data infrastructure
• Performs other job‑related duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience:
  
  6+ years

• None

Next Era Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: Next Era Energy Marketing, LLC
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