Principal Technical-Functional Consultant, Transformation (SAP IS-U)

Are you looking for an exciting job where you can put your skills and talents to work at a company you can feel proud to be a part of? Do you want a workplace that will challenge you and offer you opportunities to learn and grow?  A  position at Xcel Energy could be just what you’re looking for.

Principal Technical-Functional Consultant, Transformation (SAP IS-U)

Position Summary: 

The Principal Technical-Functional Consultant serves as the senior functional authority responsible for shaping functional solution architecture and guiding high-impact design decisions across large-scale transformation programs. This role applies deep expertise in business processes, enterprise systems, and integration patterns to ensure solutions are scalable, sustainable and aligned with future-state business and technology capabilities. The Principal Consultant influences cross-domain solution decisions, evaluates system constraints and functional tradeoffs, and ensures functional integrity across modules, applications and integrations. This role partners closely with architects, senior business leaders, solution consultants and engineering teams to guide functional strategy, establish functional standards, and ensure that solutions support long-term operational and enterprise goals. The role will be responsible for the meter to cash cross functional impacts for end to end processes. In addition, the role will have a focus on exceptions processing within SAP ISU across the various functional areas.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Serve as the senior functional authority guiding end-to-end solution strategy across multiple domains or modules.
• Lead complex blueprinting, solution evaluation, and functional architecture decisions with enterprise-level impact.
• Define functional standards, integration patterns, and configuration governance across systems and workstreams.
• Evaluate cross-functional impacts, dependencies, and future-state business process implications.
• Anticipate functional risks, technical constraints, and operational challenges; recommend sustainable solution options.
• Partner with enterprise architects and solution architects to align functional design with enterprise and technology roadmaps.
• Lead functional testing strategy and validate design integrity across workstreams.
• Provide senior oversight during cutover, go-live, and stabilization for complex functional issues.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of techno-functional or enterprise system experience with cross-domain or architecture responsibilities.
• Deep understanding of enterprise systems, integration points, functional architecture, and process design.
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to guide senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale functional solution design and transformation initiatives.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Cross Functional

• Mastery of the SAP IS-U meter to cash modules
• Ability to configure SAP IS-U including master data, rates, tariffs, billing cycles and customer service processes
• Ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into functional and technical specifications for SAP IS-U solutions
• Ability to manage end-to-end meter to cash processes and ascertain the impacts and dependencies between functional areas
• Ability to prepare and review functional specifications for customizations, enhancements and new developments
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale functional solution design and transformation initiatives

Exceptions Process

• Specialization in exception/workflow engines (i.e. BDEX)
• Ability to configure exception lists and worklists for meter reading, billing and invoicing; define business rules for exception identification
• Ability to implement custom logic for exception detection and resolution

Work Model: Hybrid - in office Tuesday through Thursday.

Some travel required; on average, 1 week in CO and 1 week in MN every month.

As a leading combination electricity and natural gas energy company, Xcel Energy offers a comprehensive portfolio of energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states. At Xcel Energy, we strive to be the preferred and trusted provider of the energy our customers need. If you’re ready to be a part of something big, we invite you to join our team.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at recruiting@xcelenergy.com.

Non-Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $129,000.00 to $183,200.00 per year

This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, Health Care Reimbursement 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

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

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Deadline to Apply: 01/15/26

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