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Position Summary
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.
This position is based onsite at our Nashville, TN offices
Responsibilities
Key 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.

• Capture lessons learned from negotiations, partner engagement, and project execution to improve future contracting playbooks and stakeholder readiness.

• Contribute to scalable standards for energy contracting documentation, approval workflows, systems-of-record hygiene, and executive reporting.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in energy contracting, utility procurement, project development, commercial operations, infrastructure contracting, energy markets, or a closely related field.

• Experience supporting or negotiating complex energy-related agreements such as utility service agreements, PPAs, interconnection agreements, transmission agreements, generation contracts, gas supply agreements, or infrastructure development agreements.

• Working knowledge of electric utility processes, power markets, large-load interconnection, tariffs, regulatory requirements, commercial risk allocation, and energy project development lifecycles.

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, Development, Operations, external counsel, utilities, and commercial counterparties.

• Strong contract analysis, business writing, executive communication, issue tracking, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, maintain accurate records, escalate risks early, and drive decisions in ambiguous or time-sensitive environments.

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, energy management, law, public policy, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale data centers, mission-critical infrastructure, large industrial loads, power generation, transmission, substation development, or utility-scale energy projects.

• Familiarity with ISO/RTO markets, FERC/NERC concepts, state utility regulation, interconnection queues, clean energy procurement, capacity products, or structured power products.

• Experience with on-site generation, bridging power, gas scheduling, pipeline nominations, fuel supply coordination, gas infrastructure, renewable energy, energy storage, or utility infrastructure agreements.

• Advanced degree, JD, MBA, PMP, energy risk, procurement, or contract management certification.

• Experience building contract governance processes, executive dashboards, playbooks, obligation trackers, or commercial decision frameworks.

Success Measures

• Energy agreements are structured, reviewed, executed, and tracked in alignment with project schedules, power readiness requirements, and governance standards.

• Commercial, regulatory, financial, operational, and technical risks are identified early, clearly communicated, and actively mitigated.

• Cross-functional stakeholders have accurate visibility into contract status, open decisions, obligations, and impacts to site development or operations readiness.

• Contracting playbooks, trackers, and governance processes improve speed, consistency, accountability, and auditability across the energy portfolio.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC5
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