Energy Contract Specialist

About the role

The Energy Contract Specialist supports the commercial execution of energy agreements enabling 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.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned energy contracting workstreams from intake through execution, ensuring agreements align with 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 products, on-site generation arrangements, gas supply and infrastructure agreements, gas scheduling and nomination requirements, and other energy-adjacent commercial instruments.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Benefits

Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match, paid time off, paid sick leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, and voluntary benefits. Oracle is committed to including people with disabilities and providing equal employment opportunities for all candidates.