IT Master Architect

Florida Power & Light; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Provided

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

NextEra Energy seeks a senior technologist to drive architecture decisions for automated infrastructure provisioning across cloud, servers, networking, security, IAM, and ITSM. You will work with partners, architects, and operations to ensure secure, compliant, and production-ready outcomes.

The role requires broad depth in cloud, automation, and infrastructure platforms, with a track record delivering IaC-driven provisioning systems and enterprise standards across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering or cloud architecture.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale architecture in multi-domain environments.
• Designing IaC-driven provisioning systems (Terraform or equivalent).
• Lead architect in cross-functional initiatives with internal teams and vendors.
• Ability to balance security, scalability, and delivery speed in production.
• Define and enforce enterprise infrastructure standards and patterns.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud architecture

Terraform

IaC

Education

Bachelor’s or Equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

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

This position will serve as a senior technologist responsible for driving architecture decisions, technical design direction, and cross-domain alignment required to deliver automated infrastructure provisioning for application deployments. This role works closely with implementation partners, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, operations, and application teams to ensure automation delivers secure, compliant, supportable, and application-ready infrastructure outcomes.

This role requires broad technical depth across cloud, servers, networking, security, identity, automation, and related infrastructure platforms. The architect defines reusable infrastructure patterns, validates technical designs, resolves cross-domain dependencies, and makes key architecture decisions as provisioning workflows move from strategy into production implementation.

Responsibilities

• 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.

The Ideal Candidate Would Have The Following

• 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.

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: 8+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

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

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Information Technology

Organization: Florida Power & Light Company

Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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