Product Manager – Data Engineering & Fleet Telemetry

<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>About Us</b></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">Sunstrong Management is a fast-growing, technology-driven renewable asset management company dedicated to accelerating the renewable energy transition. We manage a diverse, rapidly expanding portfolio of renewable assets—including residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar, wind farms, and EV charging infrastructure. We are building our product leadership team to develop intelligent monitoring, control, and optimization capabilities, including but not limited to Virtual Power Plant (VPP) functionalities that integrate with multiple OEM equipment types.</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>The Role</b></span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">We are seeking a <b>Product Manager for Data Engineering and Fleet Telemetry</b> to own the strategy, vision, and roadmap for our data lake and IoT telemetry infrastructure. You will act as the "bridge" between hardware operations and data science, ensuring high-frequency, reliable data flow from thousands of assets into actionable insights.</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">As a key member of the Product Leadership team, you will be responsible for defining requirements directing how we ingest, store, process, and act on data from heterogeneous IoT devices to optimize asset performance, predictive maintenance, and VPP participation.</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Responsibilities</b></span></span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Strategy & Vision:</b> Define the multi-year roadmap for our data ingestion platform, data lake, and telemetry systems to support scale-up from hundreds of thousands of devices to millions.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>IoT & Telemetry Ownership:</b> Own the end-to-end IoT telemetry strategy—instrumenting data collection from diverse solar inverters, and EV chargers across both residential and commercial projects.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Data Architecture Mapping:</b> Collaborate with engineering to design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Airflow) and data storage solutions (e.g., S3, Iceberg/Parquet) for high-frequency time-series data.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>OEM Integration:</b> Partner with Technical Operations to standardize data models across multiple original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>VPP & Control Capabilities:</b> Develop the telemetry and control interface requirements for our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) program, ensuring reliable, low-latency communication for grid services.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Product Requirements (PRDs):</b> Translate business requirements from asset managers and analysts into technical specifications for data engineers.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Data Reliability & Quality:</b> Establish SLAs for data availability, latency, and accuracy across the fleet.</span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Required Qualifications</b></span></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Experience:</b> 5+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years specifically in data engineering, IoT platforms, or data-intensive B2B SaaS products.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Renewable/Energy Expertise:</b> Demonstrated experience in the renewable energy sector (solar, wind, storage) or smart grid technologies (VPP, DERMS).</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Technical Acumen:</b> Strong understanding of IoT protocols (MQTT, Modbus, OPC-UA), cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), and data processing technologies (Kafka, Spark).</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Data Fluency:</b> Proficiency in SQL and ability to analyze large datasets to make data-driven decisions.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Systems Thinking:</b> Ability to map complex physical-to-digital workflows and simplify them through automation.</span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>Preferred Qualifications</b></span></span></span><ul style="margin-bottom:11px;"><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">Experience with building real-time monitoring dashboards or predictive maintenance tools.</span></span></span></li><li style="margin-left:80px;margin-bottom:11px;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;">Background in energy market telemetry requirements (ISO/RTO).</span></span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="line-height:115%;"><span style="font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br> </p><p></p><p></p>

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