The Energy Contract Specialist is a senior individual contributor responsible for supporting the commercial execution of energy agreements that enable data center power readiness, long-range capacity planning, and reliable growth across the North America portfolio. This role partners with Energy Strategy, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Development, Engineering, Construction, Operations, utilities, market participants, and external advisors to structure, review, track, and support energy-related contracts from early strategy through execution and operational handoff.
This role requires strong commercial judgment, energy market awareness, contract discipline, and the ability to drive alignment across technical, financial, legal, and operational stakeholders. The Energy Contract Specialist will help manage the contracting framework for utility service agreements, power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, transmission products, on-site generation arrangements, gas supply and infrastructure agreements, gas scheduling and nomination requirements, and other energy-adjacent commercial instruments required to support mission-critical data center operations.
Internal Responsibilities
Energy Contracting and Commercial Execution
Own assigned energy contracting workstreams from intake through execution, ensuring agreements are aligned to project scope, power readiness requirements, commercial strategy, and internal governance expectations.
Support the structuring, review, negotiation, and administration of utility service agreements, power purchase agreements, interconnection agreements, transmission-related agreements, on-site generation contracts, gas supply agreements, and related commercial documents.
Partner with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Energy Strategy, Development, Engineering, and Operations to identify key commercial, operational, financial, and technical risks within proposed energy agreements.
Maintain contract trackers, obligation registers, decision logs, milestone schedules, risk summaries, and approval records to ensure energy commitments remain visible and actionable across stakeholders.
Translate complex contract terms, tariff structures, interconnection requirements, and utility obligations into clear business guidance for leadership and project teams.
Utility, Market, and Partner Coordination
Coordinate with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, market participants, pipeline or midstream providers, generation partners, consultants, and external counsel to support contract development and execution.
Support gas scheduling coordination for generation-related fuel supply, including nominations, delivery windows, balancing obligations, pipeline capacity, curtailment risk, and operational handoff requirements.
Track market dynamics, utility engagement status, transmission constraints, interconnection queue movement, regulatory developments, and commercial risks that may impact energy availability or project timelines.
Support commercial engagement for large-load utility requests, bridging power, clean energy solutions, on-site generation, backup generation, and infrastructure agreements needed to meet data center growth requirements.
Ensure contract assumptions are aligned with project development plans, construction schedules, commissioning milestones, site energization targets, and operations readiness needs.
Governance, Risk, and Stakeholder Alignment
Develop and maintain repeatable contracting processes, templates, review checklists, escalation paths, and decision gates that improve consistency and speed across energy contracting activity.
Prepare executive-ready summaries that highlight commercial risks, open decisions, schedule impacts, budget exposure, utility dependencies, and recommended paths forward.
Identify contract obligations that require operational handoff, ongoing reporting, asset management, compliance tracking, budget planning, or coordination with site teams.
Drive cross-functional issue resolution when commercial terms, legal positions, project schedules, regulatory constraints, or technical requirements are misaligned.
Support post-execution governance to ensure obligations, renewals, amendments, notices, deliverables, and partner commitments are tracked through the agreement lifecycle.
Portfolio Reporting and Continuous Improvement
Maintain portfolio-level visibility into energy contract status, upcoming milestones, unresolved risks, commercial dependencies, and leadership decisions.
Partner with Finance and Procurement to support cost modeling, budget inputs, invoice/commitment validation, and contract-backed financial planning.
Contribute to scalable standards for energy contracting documentation, approval workflows, systems-of-record hygiene, and executive reporting.
7+ years of experience in energy contracting, utility procurement, project development, commercial operations, infrastructure contracting, energy markets, or a closely related field.
