Data Engineer I

At Yes Energy, we help our clients win the day ahead through Better Data, Better Delivery, and Better Direction.

The Data Quality team ensures the data powering our products is accurate, complete, timely, and trusted across complex market datasets. Reliable data enables our customers to make informed decisions that support grid reliability and critical market operations.

This Data Engineer I role will support the development of data quality processes, monitoring, automation, issue analysis, and root cause investigation across Oracle, Snowflake, and related data systems.

This role is ideal for someone early in their data engineering career who has strong SQL skills, a curious mindset, and an interest in building reliable, scalable data processes. The person in this role will help the team identify repeating data issues, analyze trends, diagnose root causes, and recommend ways to improve data quality at the source.

A key part of this role will also be helping automate manual or repetitive data quality workflows. This may include improving monitoring processes, building queries or scripts to detect issues earlier, supporting data validation automation, and helping create repeatable processes that make the team more efficient.

The ideal candidate is curious, detail-oriented, analytical, and excited to learn how complex energy market data moves through our systems, where it can break, and how we can make it more reliable for our customers. They should also be comfortable using practical AI-assisted tools and techniques to support analysis, documentation, triage, automation, and process improvement where appropriate., * Build and improve foundational data quality and observability frameworks across Oracle, Snowflake, and related data systems, including reusable checks, monitoring queries, alerts, reporting, and documentation that help the team detect, investigate, and prevent recurring data issues.

• Identify repetitive data quality tasks and automate them using SQL, scripts, scheduled jobs, AI-assisted tools, or other practical solutions.
• Help identify trends in recurring data issues and support root cause analysis to understand why problems are happening.
• Developing and maintaining data quality checks, monitors, alerts, and reporting.
• Use practical AI-assisted techniques to help with issue triage, pattern detection, documentation, and analysis where appropriate.
• Partner with Data Collections, Engineering, Support, and Product teams to investigate and resolve data quality issues.
• Help improve existing data quality processes by recommending ways to reduce repeated issues and improve reliability.
• Support the creation and maintenance of documentation around data quality findings, known issues, checks, and processes.
• Help analyze customer-reported data issues and provide clear findings that support timely and effective resolution.
• Participate in support and on-call rotations as needed to support clients by answering complex data questions, providing timely and effective solutions, so that we can empower our clients to make informed decisions

• 1+ years of experience with SQL and relational databases
• Creative problem-solving abilities
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience building or maintaining production data systems
• Demonstrated ability to design and build frameworks or reusable systems, not just individual fixes
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with complex, high-volume datasets
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using AI or ML-assisted techniques for data analysis, monitoring, or automation
• Ability to embrace a customer service mindset

Key Competencies & Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data quality or data observability frameworks
• Experience with Oracle, Snowflake, or PL/SQL.
• Familiarity with data governance or quality scoring approaches
• Experience with time-series, market, or energy data
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible schedule, We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact. Our benefits package is also very competitive, including medical insurance, a 401 (k) Plan with matching, flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules. Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose., Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions. Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily. The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers. Yes Energy has a team of 400 amazing professionals in Boulder, CO (HQ); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Glendora, CA; Richmond, VA; London, United Kingdom; Auckland, New Zealand; and Bucharest, Romania.

Culture

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying “Yes” to customers. We like to listen, learn, and develop our solutions in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful … we are more successful, too.

Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges; We are “high standards people” who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds
• • in an ethic that is consistent across the company. We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy
• • we work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the success of the business;
• We play to the strengths and experience of each person while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area. This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills as well as an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways.
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.