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# Director, IT at Hanwha Energy USA

- **Company:** Hanwha Energy USA
- **Location:** Houston, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hanwhaenergyusa/jobs/4364312009

## Job description

## COMPANY OVERVIEW

Hanwha Energy USA, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is part of the Hanwha Group—a FORTUNE Global 300 company and one of South Korea’s most respected business enterprises. With over a decade of experience delivering high-quality, utility-scale energy projects across North America, Hanwha Energy USA has evolved into a comprehensive energy solutions provider. Our portfolio now spans utility-scale renewables, natural gas generation, retail electricity, and strategic partnerships that power America’s growing data center industry.

Our expertise covers the entire energy value chain—from project development and engineering to construction, operations, and maintenance. By integrating advanced technologies, proven processes, and strong partnerships, we deliver reliable, customized solutions that meet the dynamic needs of local energy markets.

Hanwha Energy USA is actively advancing strategic initiatives in natural gas generation and data center development, including hyperscaler solutions on both sides of the meter. We are proud to serve as the parent company of:

- Hanwha Renewables – specializing in utility-scale solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS)
- Chariot Energy – providing retail electricity services for residential, commercial, and industrial customers in deregulated markets

## POSITION OVERVIEW

Hanwha Commodities is establishing a dedicated Energy Technology pod to support the application, data, analytics, and operational technology needs of Trading, Wholesale Supply, Retail Supply, Gas, Generation, BESS, Risk, Settlements, and related energy operations. The Director of IT, Hanwha Commodities will lead this dedicated capability, ensuring the business has protected technology capacity, reliable operational support, and a clear roadmap for priority initiatives. This role will combine hands-on energy-market technology expertise with strong product ownership, delivery leadership, and disciplined alignment to enterprise application, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and architecture standards.

The Director of IT will own the technology strategy, product roadmap, delivery outcomes, and operational reliability for Hanwha Commodities’ energy platforms. The role will translate specialized energy-market requirements into prioritized technology products, lead the dedicated Energy delivery pod, partner closely with business stakeholders, and ensure that market-critical applications and data services are stable, secure, scalable, and business-ready.

The employee may be required to perform other job-related duties as requested by management.  All duties will be assigned in accordance with applicable laws and company policies.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the Hanwha Commodities technology portfolio

- Create and maintain the Energy technology roadmap.
- Consolidate requests from Trading, Supply, Gas, Generation, Risk, and Settlements.
- Prioritize work based on financial impact, operational risk, regulatory need, and business value.
- Define what is in scope, what is deferred, and what requires additional funding.
- Prevent individual business groups from bypassing the agreed backlog.

Serve as the energy-domain technology leader

- Understand the front-to-back energy lifecycle.
- Translate trading, forecasting, scheduling, pricing, position, settlement, gas, and generation needs into technology requirements.
- Challenge inefficient or poorly controlled business processes.
- Identify opportunities to build, buy, integrate, automate, or retire solutions.
- Ensure technical teams understand market deadlines, financial exposure, and operational consequences.

Drive product outcomes and measurable business value

- Define the business problem and desired outcome.
- Establish product requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Assign business product owners and subject-matter experts.
- Track delivery, adoption, reliability, and measurable value.
- Ensure that completed products are usable and supported, not merely technically deployed.

Lead dedicated Energy Technology capacity

- Own the day-to-day backlog for the dedicated Energy app and data resources.
- Plan sprints, releases, and delivery sequencing with the PM and BSA.
- Manage Energy-specific contractors and specialist vendors.
- Protect the team from unrelated business-unit work.
- Escalate capacity constraints instead of quietly overcommitting the team.

Guide build-versus-buy and vendor decisions

- Evaluate ETRM, market-data, forecasting, scheduling, settlement, telemetry, and generation solutions.
- Recommend when to configure a product, integrate a vendor, build internally, or use contractors.
- Develop the business case and total-cost assessment.
- Retain internal ownership of requirements, architecture decisions, data, and vendor performance.

Own Energy product operations and reliability

- Define service expectations for market-critical Energy products.
- Ensure business fallback procedures are established.
- Coordinate incident priority and business communication.
- Review recurring failures and drive permanent corrective actions.
- Confirm that operational ownership is defined before production release.

## ROLE BOUNDRIES:

This role is accountable for Hanwha Commodities technology products, delivery priorities, business outcomes, and operational reliability. Enterprise-wide technical standards and platform ownership will remain with the appropriate central IT leaders. The Director of IT, Hanwha Commodities does not own:

- Enterprise application-development standards
- Programming-language or framework standards
- Cloud-platform standards
- DevOps and CI/CD standards
- Enterprise API architecture
- Data-platform architecture
- Data governance and canonical modeling standards
- Cybersecurity standards
- Infrastructure, networking, identity, or cloud subscriptions
- Technical career management of the broader Dev or Data teams
- Resource allocation outside the Energy portfolio

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Strong technical background in SQL, Python and .NET in Azure environment, with the ability to understand application architecture, data flows, integrations, and production support issues.
- Demonstrated experience supporting live trading desk or market-critical operations, including diagnosing and resolving broken data pipelines, dashboard failures, or system issues within minutes of market events without disrupting desk workflows.
- Proven ability to translate trading, forecasting, scheduling, pricing, position, settlement, gas, generation, and risk requirements into clear technology priorities and deliverable product outcomes.
- Strong product ownership, backlog management, prioritization, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proactive problem-solving mindset with the ability to operate calmly under time pressure and shifting business priorities.
- High attention to detail, strong follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple urgent priorities while protecting the team from unnecessary churn.
- Strong interest in energy markets, commodities, trading operations, and the technology platforms that support front-to-back energy lifecycle processes.

## PREFERRED:

- Experience triaging production incidents under time pressure, including memory leaks, WebSocket disconnects, data-feed failures, dashboard outages, and performance issues during high market volatility.
- Track record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in SQL query execution, reporting layers, data pipelines, and front-end rendering.
- Experience maintaining application and data-service stability during extreme load events, including grid-wide price spikes caused by weather, supply disruptions, or market volatility.
- Background in retail energy, wholesale energy, commodities trading, power, gas, generation, battery storage, settlements, or risk systems.
- Experience with ETRM, market-data, forecasting, scheduling, settlement, telemetry, generation, or commodity-risk platforms.
- Proficiency with Power BI or similar business-intelligence and analytics platforms.

COMPENSATION: $220,000 - $240,000 salary

Attention external recruitment firms, we will not accept any unsolicited resumes at this time. Please do not contact any internal member of our company to discuss the position or to solicit candidates.

Hanwha Energy USA provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

[www.hanwhaenergyusa.com](http://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com)

## About Hanwha Energy USA

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hanwha Energy USA is the U.S. investment and incubation arm of Hanwha Energy, building a connected portfolio of renewable energy, data center infrastructure, and dispatchable generation businesses across the United States.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Hanwha Energy Corporation, part of Hanwha Group)
- **Headquarters**: Houston, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available; the company was established as a U.S. subsidiary of Hanwha Energy Corporation

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable energy generation (utility-scale solar and battery storage), data center infrastructure development, dispatchable gas power generation, and retail energy supply.
- **Target customers**: Utilities, grid operators, hyperscale and enterprise data center users, industrial and manufacturing facilities, commercial and residential energy consumers, infrastructure investors, and local communities [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: The company operates without a single explicit mission statement on its web pages, but its vision centers on "advancing energy infrastructure across the United States" by building "innovative, long-term energy solutions that drive a more sustainable future" [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).

## Products & Services
Hanwha Energy USA operates as a holding and investment platform with several distinct operating companies:
- **[Hanwha Renewables]**: Utility-scale solar and battery energy storage development across the U.S. The company has signed nearly 2 gigawatts (GW) of power purchase agreements and has more than 8 GW of additional projects in its development pipeline [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa).
- **[Hanwha Data Centers]**: Development of powered land and integrated energy solutions for hyperscale and enterprise data center users, addressing power availability and infrastructure constraints [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).
- **[Hanwha Gas Power Solutions]**: A dispatchable generation platform offering both behind-the-meter (BTM) and front-of-the-meter (FTM) solutions for grid stability and energy-intensive customers [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **[Chariot Energy]**: A retail electricity provider serving residential and commercial consumers in the ERCOT (Texas) and PJM (Northeast/Midwest) deregulated markets, known for creative product structures and award-winning customer care [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, wholly owned subsidiary).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$210 million** (debt financing, announced September 2019) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa). The company is backed by the parent, Hanwha Energy, a Fortune Global 500 enterprise.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Solely owned by **Hanwha Energy Corporation**, which is a subsidiary of **Hanwha Group**, a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate with decades of leadership in energy, materials, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Growth Signals**: The company has a massive pipeline of over 8 GW of new solar and battery projects, is actively expanding into the data center infrastructure market, and currently lists 12+ active job openings across corporate, finance, legal, strategy, and project development roles [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa). It has 27,812 LinkedIn followers and employs 163 people (as of Q2 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Platform Model**: Unlike many pure-play developers, Hanwha Energy USA controls a complete energy ecosystem — generation (solar, gas), storage (batteries), infrastructure (data centers), and retail supply (Chariot Energy) — allowing it to offer end-to-end solutions and capture value across the chain [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).
- **Parent Company Backing**: Being part of the Fortune Global 500 Hanwha Group provides access to deep capital, global expertise, and a long-term investment horizon that many competitors lack [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Large Development Pipeline**: With nearly 2 GW of PPAs signed and 8+ GW under development, the company has significant scale concentrated in the fast-growing utility solar and storage market [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa).
- **Grid Reliability Focus**: The addition of the Gas Power Solutions division shows an ability to provide dispatchable, flexible power — a key differentiator in an energy transition landscape where intermittent renewables need reliable backup.

## Strategic Focus
- **U.S. Energy Infrastructure Buildout**: The company is prioritizing the development of powered land and integrated energy solutions for hyperscale data centers, addressing a critical bottleneck in the AI and cloud computing boom [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).
- **Renewable Energy Expansion**: Continuing to advance its 8+ GW utility-scale solar and BESS pipeline across multiple U.S. markets.
- **Portfolio Integration**: Aligning its operating companies (Renewables, Data Centers, Gas Power, Retail) to create a seamless "plug-and-play" energy ecosystem for large customers [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively recruiting across development, engineering, strategy, finance, legal, and commercial roles to scale the U.S. platform [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hanwhaenergyusa).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees contribute to building America's energy infrastructure, working on projects that directly impact decarbonization, grid reliability, and AI infrastructure — combining "scale with purpose" [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).
- **Entrepreneurial Culture Within a Global Giant**: The company describes its culture as "deeply hands-on, entrepreneurial, and focused on building energy solutions that last" despite being backed by a Fortune Global 500 parent [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).
- **Long-Term Stability & Growth**: Hanwha Energy USA explicitly builds "careers and businesses designed to grow over decades, not quarters," suggesting strong job stability and opportunities for internal mobility across its operating companies [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay, performance-based compensation, annual 401(k) match, health and wellness benefits, PTO and holidays, and learning/development opportunities [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/). Work location is likely Houston, Texas (HQ), with hybrid/office expectations based on the roles posted.
- **Diverse, Portfolio-Wide Career Paths**: Employees can move between renewable development, data center infrastructure, gas power, retail supply, and corporate functions without changing employers [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).

## Sources
1. [hanwhaenergyusa.com - Homepage](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/)
2. [hanwhaenergyusa.com - About Us](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/)
3. [hanwhaenergyusa.com - Careers](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/)
4. [linkedin.com - Hanwha Energy USA Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa)
5. [greenhouse.io - Hanwha Energy USA Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hanwhaenergyusa)

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