Senior Technical Developer

Vanguard Renewables, based in Weston, Massachusetts, is a national leader in environmental services and the development of food and dairy waste-to-renewable energy projects. The Company builds, owns, and operates on-farm anaerobic digestion facilities and is continuing to scale through an extensive national expansion of its Farm Powered ® platform. It is committed to advancing decarbonization by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from farms and food waste, generating renewable energy, and supporting regenerative agriculture on partner farms. Vanguard Renewables is a portfolio company of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock.

The Senior Technical Developer is a hands-on technical leadership role that directly supports the Senior Director of Data Architecture by executing, reinforcing, and operationalizing the organization’s data and application architecture strategy. This role serves as a key extension of the Senior Director, ensuring architectural direction is translated into high-quality, scalable development and database solutions.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical contributor, an effective people leader, and a flexible problem-solver who is willing to pivot as priorities evolve. This role works closely with onshore and offshore development teams and plays a critical role in ensuring consistency, quality, and reliability across development efforts.

ROLE FOCUS:

• Act as a primary operational and technical support partner to the Senior Director of Data Architecture
• Translate architectural standards and direction into executable development and data practices
• Ensure development, database, and reporting solutions align with enterprise data architecture principles

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Directly support the Senior Director of Data Architecture by: 
• Executing architectural designs and patterns
• Reinforcing development, data, and integration standards
• Assisting with day-to-day operational leadership of development efforts
• Lead, mentor, and coordinate development resources, including close collaboration with offshore teams and internal stakeholders
• Design, build, and sustain application and database solutions aligned to defined architecture
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries, database objects, and stored procedures
• Own and contribute to strong database development and performance practices
• Perform hands-on development using: 

1. C# and .NET
2. Python scripting
3. Angular 
4. Azure SQL
5. Azure cloud environment (azure functions, dev/ops-CI/CD)

• Support and, when necessary, develop operational and business reports
• Partner with architecture, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions
• Assist in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to learn new platforms, tools, and approaches as the architecture evolves

Required:

• Strong SQL expertise, including stored procedures and advanced query development
• Proven database development experience
• Hands-on experience with: 
• C# and .NET
• Python scripting
• Solid understanding of Azure architecture and cloud-based development patterns
• Experience working closely with offshore development teams
• Willingness to write reports and support evolving reporting needs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to take architectural direction and turn it into consistent, repeatable development practices

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric
• Exposure to ML models/knowledge of AI tools
• Working knowledge of SCADA systems and integration of operational data into enterprise data platforms
• Experience supporting data centric, analytics, or operational technology (OT) environments
• Prior experience working in evolving or modernized architecture landscapes

Personal Attributes

• Comfortable acting as a right-hand support role to senior technical leadership
• Adaptable and willing to pivot as priorities, platforms, or strategies change
• Collaborative communicator who can work across technical and non-technical teams
• Hands-on, accountable, and execution-focused

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Comprehensive health insurance benefits, including HSA option, with substantial employer premium contributions.
• Competitive, employer-sponsored (100% paid) dental, vision, and wellness benefits.
• Basic employer-paid life and disability insurance, with optional supplemental life and AD&D coverage.
• 401(k) retirement program with employer match and immediate eligibility.
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options to support healthcare and dependent care expenses.
• Education and adoption assistance programs to support personal and family goals.
• Discretionary performance-based bonus opportunity in addition to competitive base salary.
• Robust paid time off supporting flexibility and work-life balance.
• Monthly cell phone and business expense reimbursement.

Vanguard Renewables is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.