Product Manager – Data Engineering & Fleet Telemetry
About The Position
Sunstrong Management is a fast-growing, technology-driven renewable asset management company dedicated to accelerating the renewable energy transition. The company manages a diverse, rapidly expanding portfolio of renewable assets, including residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar, wind farms, and EV charging infrastructure. Sunstrong is building its product leadership team to develop intelligent monitoring, control, and optimization capabilities, such as Virtual Power Plant (VPP) functionalities that integrate with multiple OEM equipment types. The Product Manager for Data Engineering and Fleet Telemetry will own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for the company's data lake and IoT telemetry infrastructure. This role acts as a bridge between hardware operations and data science, ensuring high-frequency, reliable data flow from thousands of assets into actionable insights. As a key member of the Product Leadership team, the Product Manager will define requirements for ingesting, storing, processing, and acting on data from heterogeneous IoT devices to optimize asset performance, predictive maintenance, and VPP participation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years specifically in data engineering, IoT platforms, or data-intensive B2B SaaS products.
- Demonstrated experience in the renewable energy sector (solar, wind, storage) or smart grid technologies (VPP, DERMS).
- Strong understanding of IoT protocols (MQTT, Modbus, OPC-UA), cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), and data processing technologies (Kafka, Spark).
- Proficiency in SQL and ability to analyze large datasets to make data-driven decisions.
- Ability to map complex physical-to-digital workflows and simplify them through automation.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- Experience with building real-time monitoring dashboards or predictive maintenance tools.
- Background in energy market telemetry requirements (ISO/RTO).
Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year roadmap for our data ingestion platform, data lake, and telemetry systems to support scale-up from hundreds of thousands of devices to millions.
- Own the end-to-end IoT telemetry strategy—instrumenting data collection from diverse solar inverters, and EV chargers across both residential and commercial projects.
- Collaborate with engineering to design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Airflow) and data storage solutions (e.g., S3, Iceberg/Parquet) for high-frequency time-series data.
- Partner with Technical Operations to standardize data models across multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
- Develop the telemetry and control interface requirements for our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program, ensuring reliable, low-latency communication for grid services.
- Translate business requirements from asset managers and analysts into technical specifications for data engineers.
- Establish SLAs for data availability, latency, and accuracy across the fleet.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
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