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With over a decade of experience delivering high-quality, utility-scale energy projects across North America, Hanwha Energy USA has evolved into a comprehensive energy solutions provider. Our portfolio now spans utility-scale renewables, natural gas generation, retail electricity, and strategic partnerships that power America’s growing data center industry.\nOur expertise covers the entire energy value chain-from project development and engineering to construction, operations, and maintenance. By integrating advanced technologies, proven processes, and strong partnerships, we deliver reliable, customized solutions that meet the dynamic needs of local energy markets.\nHanwha Energy USA is actively advancing strategic initiatives in natural gas generation and data center development, including hyperscaler solutions on both sides of the meter. We are proud to serve as the parent company of:\n Hanwha Renewables - specializing in utility-scale solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS)\nChariot Energy - providing retail electricity services for residential, commercial, and industrial customers in deregulated markets\n\nPOSITION OVERVIEW\n Hanwha Commodities is establishing a dedicated Energy Technology pod to support the application, data, analytics, and operational technology needs of Trading, Wholesale Supply, Retail Supply, Gas, Generation, BESS, Risk, Settlements, and related energy operations. The Director of IT, Hanwha Commodities will lead this dedicated capability, ensuring the business has protected technology capacity, reliable operational support, and a clear roadmap for priority initiatives. This role will combine hands-on energy-market technology expertise with strong product ownership, delivery leadership, and disciplined alignment to enterprise application, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture standards.\nThe Director of IT will own the technology strategy, product roadmap, delivery outcomes, and operational reliability for Hanwha Commodities’ energy platforms. The role will translate specialized energy-market requirements into prioritized technology products, lead the dedicated Energy delivery pod, partner closely with business stakeholders, and ensure that market-critical applications and data services are stable, secure, scalable, and business-ready.\nThe employee may be required to perform other job-related duties as requested by management. All duties will be assigned in accordance with applicable laws and company policies.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n Own the Hanwha Commodities technology portfolio\nCreate and maintain the Energy technology roadmap.\nConsolidate requests from Trading, Supply, Gas, Generation, Risk, and Settlements.\nPrioritize work based on financial impact, operational risk, regulatory need, and business value.\nDefine what is in scope, what is deferred, and what requires additional funding.\nPrevent individual business groups from bypassing the agreed backlog.\nServe as the energy-domain technology leader\nUnderstand the front-to-back energy lifecycle.\nTranslate trading, forecasting, scheduling, pricing, position, settlement, gas, and generation needs into technology requirements.\nChallenge inefficient or poorly controlled business processes.\nIdentify opportunities to build, buy, integrate, automate, or retire solutions.\nEnsure technical teams understand market deadlines, financial exposure, and operational consequences.\nDrive product outcomes and measurable business value\nDefine the business problem and desired outcome.\nEstablish product requirements and acceptance criteria.\nAssign business product owners and subject-matter experts.\nTrack delivery, adoption, reliability, and measurable value.\nEnsure that completed products are usable and supported, not merely technically deployed.\nLead dedicated Energy Technology capacity\nOwn the day-to-day backlog for the dedicated Energy app and data resources.\nPlan sprints, releases, and delivery sequencing with the PM and BSA.\nManage Energy-specific contractors and specialist vendors.\nProtect the team from unrelated business-unit work.\nEscalate capacity constraints instead of quietly overcommitting the team.\nGuide build-versus-buy and vendor decisions\nEvaluate ETRM, market-data, forecasting, scheduling, settlement, telemetry, and generation solutions.\nRecommend when to configure a product, integrate a vendor, build internally, or use contractors.\nDevelop the business case and total-cost assessment.\nRetain internal ownership of requirements, architecture decisions, data, and vendor performance.\nOwn Energy product operations and reliability\nDefine service expectations for market-critical Energy products.\nEnsure business fallback procedures are established.\nCoordinate incident priority and business communication.\nReview recurring failures and drive permanent corrective actions.\nConfirm that operational ownership is defined before production release.\n\nROLE BOUNDRIES:\nThis role is accountable for Hanwha Commodities technology products, delivery priorities, business outcomes, and operational reliability. Enterprise-wide technical standards and platform ownership will remain with the appropriate central IT leaders. The Director of IT, Hanwha Commodities does not own:\nEnterprise application-development standards\nProgramming-language or framework standards\nCloud-platform standards\nDevOps and CI/CD standards\nEnterprise API architecture\nData-platform architecture\nData governance and canonical modeling standards\nCybersecurity standards\nInfrastructure, networking, identity, or cloud subscriptions\nTechnical career management of the broader Dev or Data teams\nResource allocation outside the Energy portfolio\n\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nStrong technical background in SQL, Python and .NET in Azure environment, with the ability to understand application architecture, data flows, integrations, and production support issues.\nDemonstrated experience supporting live trading desk or market-critical operations, including diagnosing and resolving broken data pipelines, dashboard failures, or system issues within minutes of market events without disrupting desk workflows.\nProven ability to translate trading, forecasting, scheduling, pricing, position, settlement, gas, generation, and risk requirements into clear technology priorities and deliverable product outcomes.\nStrong product ownership, backlog management, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.\nProactive problem-solving mindset with the ability to operate calmly under time pressure and shifting business priorities.\nHigh attention to detail, strong follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple urgent priorities while protecting the team from unnecessary churn.\nStrong interest in energy markets, commodities, trading operations, and the technology platforms that support front-to-back energy lifecycle processes.\nPREFERRED:\nExperience triaging production incidents under time pressure, including memory leaks, WebSocket disconnects, data-feed failures, dashboard outages, and performance issues during high market volatility.\nTrack record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in SQL query execution, reporting layers, data pipelines, and front-end rendering.\nExperience maintaining application and data-service stability during extreme load events, including grid-wide price spikes caused by weather, supply disruptions, or market volatility.\nBackground in retail energy, wholesale energy, commodities trading, power, gas, generation, battery storage, settlements, or risk systems.\nExperience with ETRM, market-data, forecasting, scheduling, settlement, telemetry, generation, or commodity-risk platforms.\nProficiency with Power BI or similar business-intelligence and analytics platforms.\nCOMPENSATION: $220,000 - $240,000 salary\nAttention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.\n\nHanwha Energy USA 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.\nwww.hanwhaenergyusa.com","description_format":"text","description_chars":8401,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Energy Storage","Solar Energy"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-12T01:56:45Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":9,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":167500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":49,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.81,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":68,"expected_fill_days":93,"reasons":["conf:0","win:late","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":240000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hanwhaenergyusa-director-it","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hanwhaenergyusa-director-it.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T03:22:34Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4988,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":673254},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=673254"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhanwhaenergyusa-director-it"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhanwhaenergyusa-director-it"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhanwhaenergyusa-director-it"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hanwhaenergyusa-director-it\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhanwhaenergyusa-director-it"}]}