Vice President, Data Platform Lead

We are seeking a hands-on technology leader to drive the development of cloud and data platforms to support customer-facing energy programs, building and fleet electrification, demand-side management, and energy analytics. This role focuses on modernizing and creating new technical foundations for immediate program delivery while enabling AI-driven capabilities for the near future. The lead will accelerate our path to: 

• Platform: Scalable, performant, cost managed, and secure infrastructure 

• Data: Strategic data posture to best enable our consultants, products, AI future 

• AI: best positioning our data and people to thrive with AI acceleration 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Develop and optimize cloud platforms, data and AI assets that support electrification and energy efficiency initiatives. Future work will expand into other domains. 

• Establish partnerships to scale delivery through reusable components, team growth, and external collaboration 

• Mentor technical staff and help advise future operational models and ways of working 

• Define and implement platform patterns to scale across business units and domains 

SUPPORTING RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Build scalable, secure data infrastructure to power real-time energy analytics, program measurement, and reporting 

• Enable data and AI/ML pipelines for predictive targeting, demand forecasting, and customer engagement 

• Implement CI/CD and infrastructure automation pipelines using infrastructure-as-code  

• Ensure platform observability and performance via SRE principles and robust monitoring solutions 

• Optimize and create new integrations to AMI, sensor, and external energy datasets 

• Support understanding and compliance with FedRAMP, SOC 2, NERC CIP, OpenADR, and other regulatory security and data standards 

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SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE 

• Staying focused on a manageable set of issues / opportunities to ensure traction 

• Obvious acceleration of meaningful cloud optimization  

• AI/ML capabilities become accessible and reusable for energy-focused use cases 

• Impact of role is scaled through team collaboration to access resources as needed 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• 12+ years of experience in cloud engineering, data platform delivery, and infrastructure 

• Hands-on expertise in Azure, cloud-native architecture, and modern DevOps practices 

• Strong background in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and secure data system design 

• Experience building or enabling AI/ML pipelines in production environments 

• Familiarity with GenAI tooling, vector search, or scenario planning platforms 

• Familiarity with energy efficiency, electrification, or utility program delivery 

• Experience with AMI, building energy data, DER integration, or electrification  

• Previous work in consulting, public sector, or regulated industries 

EXPECTED WORK PATTERNS 

• Work with strategic and domain stakeholders to identify and prioritize highest value opportunities to advance cloud, data, and AI. 

• Leverage your advanced toolbox as an experience engineer to provide what’s needed to advanced initiatives forward. This could be individually doing technical work, leading a small team, or facilitating activities to accelerate path to outcomes. 

KEY PARTNERSHIPS 

• EEI CTO 

• UPS Technology and Product Leads 

• EEI Head of Product 

• EEI Engineers (including paired role with focus on energy infrastructure) 

• EEI Technology and AI Enablement Lead 

• ICF CDO 

• ICF SCS team 

• ICF CISO 

TOOLING PROFICIENCIES  

• Azure cloud platform services (there will be some AWS work) 

• MS Fabric, Purview, AI Foundry, KQL, PowerBI, Data Factory, Databricks 

• Azure AI Studio / Foundry 

• Apache Spark, Azure Synapse 

• Azure SQL / SQL Server 

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