Senior IT Architect

Requisition ID:  89676 

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., delivering clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to approximately 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s cleanest power generation fleets and top-tier reliability, we are setting new standards in the energy industry. Ready to make an impact? Join our exceptional team today and help shape the future of energy!

 

Position Specific Description

As a Senior Architect at NextEra Energy, you will play a critical role in driving the strategic direction of our IT architecture. You will be responsible for conducting architecture reviews, creating and enforcing technology standards, and ensuring our IT solutions align with business goals and organizational considerations. Additionally, you may step in as a solution architect when project teams lack sufficient expertise. We are looking for a seasoned architect with deep expertise in technology, business architecture, and organizational processes to join our dynamic team.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise architecture (EA) models to ensure the alignment of IT strategy and planning with company business goals.
• Conduct thorough architecture reviews for new and existing solutions to ensure compliance with industry best practices and company standards.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT leaders, and project teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust architectural designs.
• Develop, document, and enforce technology standards and guidelines that promote efficient, secure, and scalable IT solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and processes to enhance the company's IT capabilities.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other architects and technical teams, fostering best practices and continuous improvement, and in some cases, playing the role of solution architect to assist delivery teams with solutions.
• Drive enterprise application portfolio management goals to reduce TCO and complexity through reuse and rationalization.
• Work closely with security teams to ensure that architectural solutions meet or exceed security requirements and industry regulations.
• Create and maintain architectural documentation, including diagrams, design patterns, and technical specifications.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in the areas of enterprise architecture, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, microservices, integration, and emerging technologies.
• Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, driving the adoption of modern architecture practices and principles.
• Offer strategic input to leadership on technology trends and their potential impact on the organization's technology landscape.

Job Overview

This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide 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. Employees in this job serve as 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
• Bac