Grid Services Strategic Technical Product Lead

Sunrun

123d • $168,914 - $225,219

About The Position

As a Strategic Technical Product Lead you will be responsible for leading the effort that links our Grid Services products and Data Integration services. As the business partner to the tech team, you will be responsible for visioning and overseeing a best in class data platform for operating Virtual Power Plants consisting of multiple battery vendors and other distributed energy resource technologies. You must be excited to lead the build of a new technical product that requires an organized data warehouse for storing, validating, organizing, aggregating, and serving time-based energy data. The data infrastructure must help standardize the way we handle observability and monitoring. In this role you will understand core business objectives and lead and define the future state technology platform vision. The Strategic Technical Product Lead role will define business requirements for the backend data pipeline, schema and API strategy to manage DPPs through a centralized command platform with a front-end product interface for internal and external users. Core to the data architecture will be API connectivity to battery and DERMS vendors, full stack web app development, data processing and normalization (e.g. telemetry), and data visualization (e.g. map and display all batteries, etc.). You will also act as Sunrun’s public facing technology expert and be expected to assist the business development and policy teams in partner meetings, at conferences, and in regulatory proceedings. You will work closely with the Operations Team, TPMs, engineering leads, AI managers and designers across our product and platform teams. You will be seen as an advocate and thought leader about Grid Services technology strategy - i.e. OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5 protocols, etc. - and be expected to speak externally on these subjects as the lead SME. This role will continue after the initial technology build and will evolve into maintenance, improvement, and scaling of the platform as well as responsibility for aspects of the performance of the platform and the fleet.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience - Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience is required.
• Experience leading data architecture / infrastructure products.
• Experience with energy monitoring and data platforms, like VPPs, DERMS or similar.
• Experience with BigQuery, Snowflake, and Salesforce, AWS and related products.
• Full stack experience preferred, in addition to backend and data experience including Python, Django, PostgreSQL, REST API, React, JavaScript, AWS, and/or Google Cloud.
• Experience optimizing cloud strategies and infrastructures.
• Experience with Observability toolings and frameworks such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Cloudwatch and others.

Responsibilities

• Work within an operational team to lead and define future state technology vision while ensuring that the current day to day needs of the domains are being met.
• Work closely with other Engineering leaders, business stakeholders and others to drive outcomes.
• Work cross-functionally with program, pricing, policy, operations, product management and business development teams to prototype and then iterate on product and process.
• Develop and manage team efficiencies, performance standards and expectations.
• Speak externally on behalf of the company in technical fora as well as in business development meetings with external partners.
• Stay up to date on the competitive landscape and changes to our industry.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 401k Plan + Company Match
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Vacations/Holidays
• Paid Baby Bonding Leave
• Employee Discounts
• PowerU - 100% Funded Education Programs
• Employee Donation Matching
• Volunteer Hour Rewards

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees