Weekend Data Engineer Contract Jobs in Tennessee

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.