Principal IT Architect

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Date: Nov 4, 2026

Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 97109

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.

Position Specific Description

Seeking an experienced Principal IT Architect to lead architecture and technical design for SAP data and analytics solutions supporting Finance and IS-U Utilities. The role requires strong expertise in SAP BW/4HANA, S/4HANA, SAP BDC, SAC, ABAP, CDS Views/CDS Extractors, and SAP HANA.

Key Responsibilities

Lead architecture and design of enterprise SAP BW/4HANA solutions for Finance and IS-U Utilities.
Define SAP data and analytics architecture leveraging SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
Design scalable data integration across S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, Finance, IS-U, and SAP BDC.
Architect and develop CDS Views/CDS Extractors for S/4HANA data integration.
Provide technical leadership for ABAP development, including extractors, BADIs, enhancements, function modules, exits, and BW routines.
Guide development of ADSOs, CompositeProviders, Transformations, DTPs, Process Chains, and HANA Calculation Views.
Drive performance optimization, architecture standards, technical reviews, and modernization of SAP BW landscapes.

Required Skills

15+ years of SAP BW/BI, HANA, ABAP, or related SAP architecture experience.
Strong expertise in SAP BW/4HANA, S/4HANA, ABAP, CDS Views, and SAP HANA.
Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
Experience with SAP Finance and/or IS-U Utilities data and reporting.
Strong knowledge of SAP data extraction, modeling, integration, analytics, and performance optimization.
Proven technical leadership experience with large-scale SAP implementations.

Job Overview

This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive technologies and solving unique and complex problems. Individuals facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions. Leaders in this job serve as top-level experts and visionaries in the development of roadmaps, strategy, and design for assigned technology areas.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions
Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners
Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies
Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans
Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state
Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures
Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for enterprise technology architecture compliance
Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards
Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation
Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

High School Grad / GED
Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.

NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami

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