Director, Platform Technology

Join the Market Leader in Electric Power Data and Analytics Solutions

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose.

Be a part of our successful, growing business during international transformation.

Position Summary

As the Director of Platform Technology, you will lead the evolution of our global Platform team and establish two strategic domains of focus: Systems Platform and Data Platform. You will be responsible for shaping the team’s structure, setting technical direction, and driving execution across both domains while maintaining a single, unified Platform team.

The Systems Platform domain is focused on building and managing global infrastructure for CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms, serving key stakeholders in Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security. The Data Platform domain is focused on building global infrastructure for data architecture and data products, in partnership with Data Engineering, Database Administration, and Security. Both domains will collaborate closely with Enterprise Data & Analytics and Business Intelligence to ensure high-quality data integration into our central systems.

This is a strategic leadership role where you’ll drive the Platform’s growth, align it with business needs, and enable innovation through secure, scalable, and reliable global infrastructure.

Position Details

• Salary range: $150,000/year - $180,000/year 
• Location: Chicago IL, Boston MA, Boulder CO, Richmond VA 
• Full-time
• Hybrid: 2-3 days per week in office 
• Reporting to: Vice President, Technology
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Define and execute the global strategy for both Systems Platform and Data Platform domains, ensuring alignment with business and technology objectives.
• Build and evolve a modern, secure, and scalable technology stack across CI/CD, container orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise data architecture.
• Partner with senior leadership across Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, and Security to ensure platform initiatives support company-wide objectives.

Systems Platform Domain

• Own strategy and delivery for global CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containers, and multi-cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, OCI).
• Improve developer productivity, enable secure deployments, and ensure platform reliability and performance.
• Align systems infrastructure with product engineering needs and compliance requirements.

Data Platform Domain

• Build the foundation for data infrastructure and products that scale globally.
• Partner with Data Engineering, DBA and compliance teams to ensure data consistency, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Data & Analytics team to integrate business data into centralized systems for analytics and reporting.

People & Organization

• Lead and grow the unified Platform team while defining clear domain ownership.
• Mentor and develop engineers, fostering curiosity, innovation, and excellence.
• Recruit and retain top talent, ensuring the team evolves alongside the platform’s maturity.

Execution & Operations

• Oversee planning, prioritization, and execution across both domains.
• Establish clear success metrics, SLAs, and reporting for platform services.
• Champion Agile and DevOps practices to ensure scalability and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a related field or equivalent working experience.
• 10+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 5 years in a senior management or director-level role.
• Proven success leading platform engineering initiatives across both infrastructure and data domains.
• Strong familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and modern cloud/data architectures.
• Strong ability to architect distributed systems, focusing on performance, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Track record of building high-performing engineering teams through mentorship, technical growth frameworks, and career pathing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of cloud platforms (OCI, Azure, or AWS), including compute, storage, networking, and identity management.
• Experience building and evolving platform services — developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks, and internal APIs.
• Proven ability to align platform investments with business goals and product roadmap; experience defining KPIs for platform success.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
• Experience managing cloud partnerships, SaaS tooling evaluations, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience in data-intensive or real-time SaaS products, or within energy, analytics, or fintech verticals.
• Familiarity with event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), data warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), and data governance principles.
• Strong technical background in cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and enterprise data systems.
• Customer- and developer-centric mindset with focus on platform-as-a-product principles.

At Yes Energy, we value connecting directly with candidates. We kindly ask that third-party recruiters and agencies not submit resumes, as we are not open to external recruiting partnerships.

ABOUT YES ENERGY

Overview

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions.  Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily.  The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers.  Yes Energy has a team of over 350 amazing professionals in Boulder, CO (HQ); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Glendora, CA; Richmond, VA; London, United Kingdom; Auckland, New Zealand, Tokyo, Japan; and Bucharest, Romania.

Culture

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying “Yes” to customers. We like to listen, learn, and develop our solutions in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful … we are more successful, too.

Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges;
• We are “high standards people” who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds-- in an ethic that is consistent across the company;
• We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy-- we work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the success of the business;
• We play to the strengths and experience of each person while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area.  This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills as well as an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways; 
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.

Compensation and Benefits

We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package is also very competitive, including medical insurance, a 401 (k) Plan with matching, flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules. Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

At Yes Energy, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

In accordance with Colorado law, the range provided is Yes Energy’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Yes Energy provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Yes Energy complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location where the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.