Sr. Energy Analyst – Infrastructure Modeling, Analytics & Demand Response

Sr. Energy Analyst – Infrastructure Modeling, Analytics & Demand Response

Location:  New York, NY or Boston, MA

Your Role

As a Sr. Energy Analyst, you will play a key role in optimizing energy use across a portfolio of enterprise data centers by developing energy infrastructure models, identifying demand flexibility opportunities, and supporting energy market participation strategies. This position leverages data-driven analytics to improve operational efficiency, enhance sustainability initiatives, monetize existing infrastructure assets, and accelerate site readiness while partnering closely with internal stakeholders, utilities, and external service providers.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain financial and operational models for behind-the-meter and onsite energy infrastructure, including natural gas generation, distributed energy resources (DERs), energy storage, backup generation, and other campus-level power assets.
• Perform portfolio analytics, forecasting, and sensitivity analysis to evaluate infrastructure utilization, site readiness, cost avoidance opportunities, revenue generation, and NOI impact.
• Analyze and forecast data center load flexibility opportunities and support demand-side optimization initiatives.
• Evaluate, enroll, and manage participation in Demand Response (DR), capacity, ancillary services, flexible load, and tariff optimization programs.
• Develop and enhance automated demand response strategies, including real-time and day-ahead event response plans.
• Monitor program performance, investigate underperformance issues, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions.
• Track energy market conditions, utility tariffs, regulatory developments, and industry trends that impact participation opportunities and energy strategy.
• Manage the intake, validation, normalization, integration, and quality assurance of energy-related datasets from vendors, utilities, consultants, and aggregators.
• Partner with engineering, operations, finance, procurement, development, utilities, grid operators, and third-party providers to support energy supply, infrastructure, financing, and demand flexibility initiatives.
• Deliver clear recommendations, reports, dashboards, and analytical insights that support strategic and operational decision-making across the portfolio.

What You'll Need

• 2+ years of experience in energy analytics, infrastructure analytics, demand response programs, utility operations, commercial and industrial (C&I) energy management, data center energy management, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with experience building, maintaining, documenting, validating, and quality-checking business-critical models, dashboards, and datasets.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with at least one data analysis or programming tool such as Python, R, or SQL.
• Understanding of power systems, grid programs, demand response markets, capacity and ancillary service programs, and energy market structures.
• Knowledge of utility tariffs, demand charges, distributed energy resources (DERs), and energy infrastructure economics.
• Ability to evaluate complex datasets and translate findings into actionable business recommendations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across multiple functions and managing relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Experience supporting cloud, hyperscale, enterprise data center, utility, energy consulting, ISO/RTO, aggregator, DER, or large infrastructure environments preferred.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities while delivering accurate and timely analysis.

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our team 

Operations

Our Operations team keeps our customers’ infrastructure running safely and securely. We get plenty of opportunities to take on a variety of tasks and develop our technical skills. From overseeing electrical power to cooling and fire suppression systems, our team plays a vital role in making sure everything in our data centers operates as it should.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Health and Safety

Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range: $110,000 – $137,500 annually. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting. 

Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more. 

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.