IT Master Architect
About this role
Requisition ID: 96218
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
- Own architecture for automated provisioning of infrastructure resources across cloud, compute, networking, security, DNS/IPAM, IAM, ITSM/CMDB, monitoring, and operations.
- Direct design decisions with implementation partners to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards, operational requirements, and long-term ownership models.
- Define and enforce reusable infrastructure patterns, interfaces, controls, and operating requirements for application-ready infrastructure across domains.
- Identify, analyze, and eliminate technical dependencies, design gaps, and provisioning bottlenecks that result in manual tickets, handoffs, or delays.
- Make architecture decisions across Infrastructure as Code, orchestration, policy automation, integration, resiliency, observability, supportability, and lifecycle management.
- Validate that delivered automation capabilities are fully supportable, operable, and extensible by NextEra teams in production environments.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation, including at least 5+ years in a senior or principal architecture role.
- Proven track record leading enterprise-scale infrastructure architecture across cloud, compute/servers, networking, security, identity, and operations platforms in complex, multi-domain environments.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Infrastructure as Code–driven provisioning systems (e.g., Terraform or equivalent), including automated workflows, orchestration, and policy-based controls.
- Experience serving as a lead architect or technical authority in cross-functional initiatives involving internal engineering teams and external system integrators or vendors.
- History of making final or near-final architecture decisions that balance security, operational readiness, scalability, standardization, and delivery speed in production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to define and enforce enterprise infrastructure standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures adopted across multiple teams or domains.
- Strong communication and influence skills, with experience operating in environments requiring alignment across application development, infrastructure operations, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams.
Company at a glance
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE), is the largest electric utility in America and provides affordable, reliable and clean electricity to over 12 million people in Florida.
FPL's commitment to reliability is exemplified by our recognition as the winner of the ReliabilityOne® National Reliability Award seven times in the past eight years.
Learn more about us at www.FPL.com.
Interested in becoming a part of our team? Visit https://jobs.nexteraenergy.com/ to apply today!
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