NA Digital Delivery Senior Associate

EDP Energias de Portugal S.A. • Houston, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

EDP Renewables is seeking a Digital Delivery Senior Associate to help the North America regional team turn business needs into practical AI, automation, and citizen-development solutions. Working with stakeholders across North America functions and project teams, the role shapes and assesses opportunities, helps prioritize the regional pipeline, coordinates delivery with business owners and DGU partners, supports adoption, and measures outcomes. It guides business teams in responsible use of approved low-code and no-code tools within EDP Global standards and governance. The role supports regional delivery and does not establish a separate AI or governance function.

The Senior Associate works closely with the North America business and regional DGU team and serves as a focal point to global Platforms, the Digital Factory, Centers of Excellence (CoEs), and delivery teams when their capabilities or expertise are needed. The position has no direct reports, is based in Houston, and may require occasional regional travel to offices or project sites in North America.

The position requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent relevant experience, and approximately 3–5 years of experience or equivalent project experience in related areas. The successful candidate will be curious, practical, collaborative, communicative, dependable, detail-oriented, and able to take initiative while working with limited day-to-day direction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, engineering, data, computer science, economics (data/statistics), or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Approximately 3–5 years of experience, or equivalent project experience, in business analysis, project coordination, digital transformation, process improvement, data, AI, or automation.
• Ability to understand business processes, shape use cases, gather requirements, and clearly document needs.
• Experience coordinating initiatives, tasks, stakeholders, and follow-ups across multiple activities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with business and technical teams.
• Proficiency with standard productivity and collaboration tools.
• Familiarity with AI and generative AI concepts, including practical uses and limitations.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a regional team and coordinate with global colleagues.
• Sound judgment when handling business information, data, and potential delivery risks.
• Curious and practical approach to solving business problems.
• Collaborative, service-oriented working style; clear communication and dependable follow-through.
• Ability to take initiative and coordinate work with limited day-to-day direction.
• Attention to detail and sound judgment when handling business information.
• Ability to raise questions and escalate issues appropriately.
• Willingness to learn new platforms, tools, and business processes.
• Ability to stand and sit for 8 or more hours in an office environment.
• Ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently and deliver instructions in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to lift items weighing up to 10 pounds.
• Ability to understand and communicate safety precautions when necessary.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to low-code or no-code platforms, workflow automation, data analysis, or business intelligence tools.
• Experience supporting or coordinating AI, automation, or process-improvement initiatives through discovery, delivery, and adoption.
• Experience guiding colleagues or business users in using digital tools or solutions.
• Familiarity with renewable energy, project development, construction, or asset operations.
• Experience preparing user guidance, delivering training, or supporting adoption of new tools.

Responsibilities

• Engage with North America business teams to understand processes, challenges, and opportunities for AI, automation, and citizen development.
• Lead intake and initial assessment of ideas, clarifying business needs, expected outcomes, stakeholders, dependencies, data requirements, and potential risks.
• Help organize and prioritize the North America AI and citizen-development pipeline with business owners and the platform Digital Accelerator team; maintain ownership, status, decisions, and next steps.
• Facilitate preparation of use-case descriptions, process maps, requirements, scope, delivery plans, presentations, and success measures with business owners.
• Support delivery activities across business stakeholders, regional DGU, Platforms, the Digital Factory, CoEs, and other relevant partners.
• Identify EDP platforms, tools, data, and global initiatives that may address business needs, and promote reuse where appropriate with Digital Factory.
• Support discovery, solution design, user feedback, documentation, testing, and rollout for approved solutions.
• Help business users identify suitable low-code and no-code opportunities and develop low- or medium-complexity solutions using approved tools and established Global platform guardrails.
• Guide citizen developers through practical guidance, training, and documentation, and help them recognize when a solution needs platform or CoE review or support.
• Monitor adoption and agreed measures, such as time saved, reduced manual effort, improved information access, or quality, and report progress and outcomes with business owners.
• Identify and address delivery blockers, dependencies, data concerns, and risks, escalating them to appropriate owners or control and delivery teams.
• Promote awareness of approved AI tools, their capabilities and limitations, and responsible-use practices.
• Share lessons learned and reusable practices across North America and with relevant global teams.
• Prepare and deliver internal presentations showcasing successful projects, including business needs, delivered solutions, results, lessons learned, and potential for reuse across EDP.
• Perform additional responsibilities as needed.

Benefits

• A flexible, healthy, and inclusive workplace with a range of attractive benefits.
• Opportunities for development and internal mobility.
• A positive and innovative work environment that promotes collaboration and agile decision-making.
• A meaningful work experience and preparation for future challenges.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level