Senior Technical Developer

Description

Vanguard Renewables, based in Weston, Massachusetts, is a national leader in environmental services and the development of food and dairy waste-to-renewable energy projects. The Company builds, owns, and operates on-farm anaerobic digestion facilities and is continuing to scale through an extensive national expansion of its Farm Powered ® platform. It is committed to advancing decarbonization by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farms and food waste, generating renewable energy, and supporting regenerative agriculture on partner farms.

Vanguard Renewables is a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of Black Rock.

The Senior Technical Developer is a hands‑on technical leadership role that directly supports the Senior Director of Data Architecture by executing, reinforcing, and operationalizing the organization’s data and application architecture strategy. This role serves as a key extension of the Senior Director, ensuring architectural direction is translated into high-quality, scalable development and database solutions.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical contributor, an effective people leader, and a flexible problem‑solver who is willing to pivot as priorities evolve. This role works closely with onshore and offshore development teams and plays a critical role in ensuring consistency, quality, and reliability across development efforts.

• Act as a primary operational and technical support partner to the Senior Director of Data Architecture
• Translate architectural standards and direction into executable development and data practices
• Ensure development, database, and reporting solutions align with enterprise data architecture principles

• Directly support the Senior Director of Data Architecture by:
• Executing architectural designs and patterns
• Reinforcing development, data, and integration standards
• Assisting with day‑to‑day operational leadership of development efforts
• Lead, mentor, and coordinate development resources, including close collaboration with offshore teams and internal stakeholders
• Design, build, and sustain application and database solutions aligned to defined architecture
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries, database objects, and stored procedures
• Own and contribute to strong database development and performance practices
• Perform hands‑on development using:

• Support and, when necessary, develop operational and business reports
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions
• Assist in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root‑cause analysis
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to learn new platforms, tools, and approaches as the architecture evolves

• Strong SQL expertise, including stored procedures and advanced query development
• Proven database development experience
• Hands‑on experience with:
• C# and .NET
• Python scripting
• Solid understanding of Azure architecture and cloud‑based development patterns
• Experience working closely with offshore development teams
• Willingness to write reports and support evolving reporting needs
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities
• Ability to take architectural direction and turn it into consistent, repeatable development practices

• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric
• Exposure to ML models/knowledge of AI tools
• Working knowledge of SCADA systems and integration of operational data into enterprise data platforms
• Experience supporting data centric, analytics, or operational technology (OT) environments
• Prior experience working in evolving or modernized architecture landscapes

• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric
• Exposure to ML models/knowledge of AI tools
• Working knowledge of SCADA systems and integration of operational data into enterprise data platforms
• Experience supporting data centric, analytics, or operational technology (OT) environments
• Prior experience working in evolving or modernized architecture landscapes

• Comprehensive health insurance benefits, including HSA option, with…