Senior IT Solution Analyst

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy. 
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Position Summary
Xcel Energy has an exciting opportunity for a Sr IT Solution Analyst (DBA) position to join our team in downtown Minneapolis, MN. This position primarily supports the database environments for Energy Services which includes Distribution, Transmission and Nuclear business areas. The Sr IT Solution Analyst partners with application support teams on projects of all sizes and durations.

The Sr. Solution Analyst is responsible for working directly with customers to identify, prioritize, deliver and operate innovative IT solutions. They will analyze and define IT solutions or process changes to meet customer needs and minimize cost. They are involved and lead aspects of application lifecycle management, including roadmap planning, delivery, and support to releases. They own creation and maintenance of necessary application related documentation and communication. In partnership with the business, they drive to ensure the IT solution meets continuously changing business needs. They will research and identify industry practices, products and processes that are trending and/or that best meet customer needs.
Essential Responsibilities

• SQLServer Database Administration for which includes Database Backup and Recovery Performance Tuning and Business Continuity.
• Oracle Database Administration for which includes Database Backup and Recovery, Performance Tuning and Business Continuity.
• Solution Delivery: Contribute to and lead analysis aspects of roadmap delivery. Support and lead requirements management, QA and deployment activities. Identify and drive resolution to capability gaps or operational risks. Partner cross-organizationally and with vendor partners to analyze cost/benefit of various options. Ensure solution delivery practices are structured, sound, and compliant.
• Relationship Management: Work in strong partnership with team, partners and stakeholders across the organization. Establish a deep acumen and work with customers to propose, prioritize and deploy continuous improvement. Cultivate and sustain a deep acumen of business functions, processes and needs. Liaise with business partners on IT industry capabilities. Work collaboratively across organizations and stakeholder groups to ensure solutions are compliant and secure.
• Operations: Participate in system health assessments through analysis of application operation, identification of operational risks, and recommendation on lifecycle planning events such as upgrades and decommissions. Support validation and measurement of business value for deployed solutions. Foresee changing business needs, and assess needs for solution changes.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Sustain deep acumen in analytical methods and tools, industry trends and organizational goals to ensure optimal technology solutions are sought.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Science, Business or related field, or 4 years of experience equivalent to the position.
• Five years of related functional experience.
• Experience with Project or Product delivery practices, including SDLC, Agile, and Waterfall.
• Demonstrated ability to recommend innovative solutions to meet business needs.
• Ability to drive continuous improvement through lean and agile practices.
• Demonstrated in depth knowledge of end-to-end process and system capabilities, as well as industry standards and emerging technologies and methods.
• Ability to understand technical, functional, and operational details of respective solutions.
• Strong problem solving, analytical and detail orientation.
• Demonstrated ability to build functional and technical subject matter expertise, process and tools expertise, and drive consistency in processes.
• In-depth knowledge or the ability to quickly attain expertise on core IT components within the respective domain.
• Strong communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets.
• Strong Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross-organizationally to drive innovation and business results.

Preferred Requirements

• Experienced Database administrator (DBA) supporting Energy Management System (EMS SCADA), Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS SCADA), Gas ACADA, OT (Operational and Technology)and Nuclear systems.
• Prior experience working at Xcel Energy.
• Strong technical knowledge of SQLServer database administration for SQLServer 2017,2019,2022,2025.
• Strong technical knowledge of Oracle database administration for 12c,19c,26ai.
• Experienced with SQLServer Integration Services i.e. SSIS package development and implementation, reporting services.
• Experienced with Database replication technologies i.e. mirroring, log shipping, replication
• Experienced with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), RAC and Data Guard technology.
• Experienced with Oracle and SQLServer Major Version upgrade
• Experienced with T-SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, PowerShell Scripting
• Experienced with Windows/SQLServer Clustering and AlwaysOn Failover Cluster.
• Knowledge of managing PostgreSQL and MySQL Databases.

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Non-Bargaining The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $84,900.00 to $120,566.66 per year This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave

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Deadline to Apply: 11/05/26

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