Principal IT Architect

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Date: Oct 7, 2025

Location(s): Jupiter, FL, US, 33478

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID:  90650 

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

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical guidance and support to team members, helping solve complex problems and remove roadblocks
  • Work as an independent contributor to develop software products
  • Lead technical projects from planning to implementation, ensuring on-time delivery and quality standards
  • Collaborate with other departments to align technical solutions with business needs and goals
  • Manage infrastructure including hardware, software, and development tools
  • Develop technical strategies and roadmaps, identifying improvement areas and proposing new technologies
  • Ensure all technical solutions comply with relevant standards, regulations, and policies
  • Manage relationships with stakeholders, customers, vendors, and partners
  • Stay current with new technologies and trends, making recommendations to senior management

 

Required Qualifications:

  • MUST be a US Citizen or Green Card holder due to the nature of the work. We will not accept candidates of other visa's.
  • Strong technical background and expertise in relevant technologies and programming languages
  • Excellent problem-solving skills to identify and resolve complex technical issues
  • Leadership skills to manage technical teams, assign tasks, set goals, and provide direction
  • Strong communication skills for interacting with team members, stakeholders, and other departments
  • Project management experience including planning, organizing, and managing technical projects
  • Experience with Scrum/Scaled Agile project management methodology
  • Collaborative approach to working with other departments and stakeholders
  • Adaptability to changing technologies, priorities, and requirements
  • Business acumen to understand goals and align technical solutions with business needs

 

Skills Required:

  • 7+ years Angular UI development
  • 5+ years Node.js with TypeScript/JavaScript
  • 5+ years API development (GraphQL experience is a plus)
  • 5+ years SQL with relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle)
  • 2+ years cloud technologies (AWS preferred)
  • Experience with Agile methodology (Scaled Agile preferred)

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. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.

 

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.

 

NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.

 


Nearest Major Market: Palm Beach
Nearest Secondary Market: Miami

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