Vice President, Enterprise Data & Technology

About the role

Nexus Energy Partners is an innovative and dynamic energy investment firm headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with a key office in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nexus invests in the energy needs of today and the energy solutions of tomorrow. Nexus Energy Partners has built a strong portfolio of non-operated working interests and mineral properties in Oklahoma’s Mid-Continent and is actively expanding its portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the company-wide enterprise data strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Prioritize the data team’s initiatives against business value and company goals.
• Stay informed about current trends, best practices, regulatory developments, and new technologies to ensure the company continues to elevate its data strategy.
• Lead, manage, and grow the overall data team, including the Sr. Manager of Enterprise Data.
• Directly manage the data interns and own the intern program, building a repeatable pipeline for developing and converting junior talent.
• Own automation, optimization, BI, and analytics strategy.
• Deploy, run, and manage AI agents within the team’s and the company’s workflows.
• Teach and upskill the team on effective, responsible use of AI agents, establishing best practices, guardrails, and compliance strategy.
• Own the company’s AI and automation strategy, identifying high-value use cases across the business and driving their adoption.
• Own the enterprise data architecture direction and standards as part of the company-wide data strategy, setting execution priorities for the broader data team.
• Guide decisions on platform, tooling, software, and infrastructure to ensure scalability and long-term fit.
• Ensure the company’s data foundation can support analytics, AI, and future growth.
• Partner with department and executive leadership to align the data function with company priorities.
• Translate business needs into the enterprise data strategy and roadmap and communicate progress to leadership.
• Champion data-driven decision-making across the organization.
• Establish the team’s operating model, including standards, prioritization, and vendor/tool decisions.
• Own data team budget and resourcing.
• Define and uphold data governance, quality, and security standards across the organization.
• Lead the organization in establishing cybersecurity policy, training, and external vendor relationships to monitor and protect company systems.
• Own the company’s security posture for data and systems, ensuring appropriate controls, access management, and data protection across the function.
• Provide oversight and direction for core IT systems and infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and alignment with the company’s data strategy.
• Set standards and ensure compliance for systems administration, vendor/tool security reviews, and incident response related to data and IT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus but not required.
• At least 10 years in data, analytics, or technology functions, with at least 4 years leading and growing teams.
• Proven experience managing and developing a team — hiring, mentoring, setting operating cadence, and building junior talent into contributors.
• Strong command of modern BI and analytics tools (Power BI, Spotfire) and the Microsoft data stack (SQL Server, SSIS, Azure/Power Platform).
• Experience evaluating or building on a modern data warehouse platform (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric).
• Familiarity with Monday.com or a similar work-management platform is a plus.
• Demonstrated ownership of an enterprise data strategy and multi-year roadmap, including prioritizing initiatives against business value.
• Experience directing enterprise data architecture and platform decisions (warehouse, tooling, infrastructure) with an eye toward scalability and long-term fit.
• Experience applying AI and automation to real business workflows, and knowledgeable about responsible AI practices and guardrails.
• Hands-on experience deploying and scaling AI agents a plus.
• Comfortable owning the company’s security posture and IT oversight — setting standards for access management, data protection, and vendor security, whether handled directly or through specialists and vendors.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical strategy, drive adoption across the organization, and communicate clearly with executive leadership.
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats in a lean, fast-moving environment — adaptable, decisive in ambiguity, and able to balance competing priorities independently.
• Must reside in Denver or Tulsa and be able to work in the office at least three days a week.