Senior Manager Advanced Technology

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location ranging from $141440 to $176800

What We Offer:

Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
Generous performancebased bonuses
12% 401(k) match
Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance
Tuition reimbursement

Professional development and clear career advancement pathways

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Job Summary

The Digital Transformation & Optimization (DTO) team is a cross-functional team focused on improving projects processes systems and tools with the goal of obtaining positive and quantitative business results. This area is responsible of defining standardizing implementing and continuously improve processes systems and tools to develop sustainable efficiencies and continuous improvement in the entire value chain of the business.

The Technology area as part of the Digital Transformation & Optimization department oversees the Digital Center of Excellence ensuring Power technology is deployed in an efficient and effective way using the right technology deployed under the correct operational model and meeting business requirements.

The Sr. Manager Advanced Computing and AI is a key role within DTO and overall for the full company. This role is the ultimate responsible for leading Avangrid Power Artificial Intelligence program. This leader converts complex operational requirements into scalable secure and costeffective AI-powered tools enabling enhanced business value and faster innovation in trading applications Growth Solutions and O&M digital tools. The role blends technical depth with product mindset vendor management and people leadership building on the Advanced Technology foundation already in place.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand Avangrid Power business goals objectives and define AI digital technologies programs for the full value chain. Big focus on Advance Operations Asset & Energy Management digitalization and support to Growth functions while ensuring digital solutions modernization and Optimization.
• Development and implementation of all Power AI digital programs ensuring they align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements. Develops Maintains and Implements the AI Technology Roadmap.
• Architect and deliver compute stacks for AI/ML (training/inference) physicsbased modeling and streaming analytics prioritizing reliability scalability and total cost of ownership.
• Lead a team of 4 direct reports and 20 indirect reports delivering an excellent service to the Avangrid Power business. Build and lead a highperforming team of platform engineers ML engineers prompt/agent engineers and SREs; provide technical direction coaching and career development.
• The role is fully integrated in the business and will work collaboratively with the Power Directors and VP levels to determine AI digital needs capture requirements ensure correct deployment obtain enhancement opportunities and report operational indicators.
• Responsible to manage the coordination between technology providers and the whole Power business needs including but not limited to infrastructure provisioning required to build digital solutions Avangrid business/users technology needs and secure integration of digital within the company technology ecosystem.
• Responsible for the Technologies Lifecycle Management including the implementation of deployment methodologies required for the different Digital Projects execution. Ensure the use of common development standards methodology and tools.
• Oversee day-to-day technology operations ensuring high availability reliability and performance
• Deliver excellent levels of AI operational stability and reliability to the digital platforms. Establish runbooks and observability for platform health; own incident response and continuous improvement; provide operational support to technology operations. Foster culture of continuous transformation.
• Provide leadership and oversight on all aspects of the area including AI technical engineering operational readiness early adopter and pilot programs technology transition and transformation; communications; technology adoption; service delivery and service support.
• Define patterns for workload placement (onprem HPC vs. cloud GPU vs. accelerated endpoints) storage tiers and highthroughput data pipelines serving Trading Physical Systems Growth Solutions and O&M.
• Determine outsourcing vs. inhouse build; manage strategic vendors (hardware cloud ISVs) to ensure performance security compliance and cost discipline.
• Implement rigorous testing and performance benchmarking; enforce standards peer reviews change controls; integrate cyber identity and data governance across the stack.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Champion best practices in a high-volume dynamic environment. Ensure the enterprise has the capability to support new technology and maintain high levels of service. Create a sustainable IT environment to facilitate growth while maintaining required regulatory compliance and end user requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 10 Years of experience in any capacity working with Technology and digital tools.
• 10 years in advanced computing HPC/GPU platforms or largescale data/AI systems; 35 years building and operating production ML/analytics platforms in missioncritical environments.
• Proven experience translating business goals into compute architectures and products delivering tangible outcomes in energy industrials or similarly complex operations.
• Handson fluency with GPU/HPC orchestration workload schedulers and containerized stacks (e.g. Kubernetes) plus observability/performance benchmarking.
• Hands-on experience into AI platforms available in public cloud providers (Azure AWS)
• Demonstrated leadership of crossfunctional teams and multivendor ecosystems with strong stakeholder influence.
• Knowledge of IT control policies security standards and data governance; ability to embed these into platform design and operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating compute platforms with forecasting condition monitoring or realtime OT/IT data (PI/data historians SCADA) and trading applications.
• Background in Renewables or gridscale operations; familiarity with model lifecycle (feature engineering retraining drift management).
• Masters degree in a relevant field (e.g. Computer Engineering Data Science) or equivalent experience.

Competencies (standard for all jobs)

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission operations and cyber security business areas in Connecticut Maine Massachusetts and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections training audit engagement and required evidence retention and will be communicated by the employees management.

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