IT Technology Leader

NextEra Energy Services; Juno Beach (FL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy is seeking an IT Technology Leader to own enterprise Access Management within IAM. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on oversight of authentication, authorization, MFA, SSO and related IAM services.

This onsite position offers work options from Juno Beach, Miami, or Houston and partners with infrastructure to align IAM with security and business needs. The Lead IT Professional will shape strategy, drive roadmaps, govern technology choices, and ensure secure,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of IT experience.
• Onsite role with preference for Florida offices including Juno Beach, FL; Miami, FL; or Houston, TX.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic and technical leadership for enterprise Access Management within IAM.
• Owns IAM strategy, architecture, security requirements, policies and standards.
• Partners with infrastructure teams to ensure IAM services meet enterprise and regulatory needs.
• Leads governance, roadmaps, and end-to-end user/access experience.
• Drives DevOps practices to automate code releases from development to operations.
• Manages vendor relationships and external delivery for IAM initiatives.
• Develops and retains a high-performing, diverse IT team.
• Ensures compliance with company policies and industry standards.

Skills

Leadership

IT Strategy

IAM / Access Management

Education

Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

Job description

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IT Technology Leader

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 98688

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

The Lead IT Professional – Access Management provides strategic and technical leadership and end-to-end ownership for the enterprise Access Management capability within Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Access Management encompasses the processes and technologies used to verify and enforce user access to enterprise systems, applications, functionality, and resources, including authentication, authorization, federation, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), credential and key management, password management, and directory services.

This position establishes the IAM layer of accountability across the access lifecycle, with responsibility for Access Management strategy, architecture, security requirements, policies and standards, service models, governance, technology roadmaps, and the end-to-end experience for users and application owners.

The role partners closely with infrastructure and technology organizations responsible for operating underlying platforms, while ensuring those platforms and services collectively meet enterprise IAM, cybersecurity, regulatory, business, and application requirements.

The Lead IT Professional serves as the enterprise Access Management capability owner, helping eliminate gaps between infrastructure/platform ownership and IAM service ownership and ensuring consistent, secure, and sustainable access controls across the enterprise.

This role is onsite, with the option to work from one of our offices in Juno Beach, FL; Miami, FL; or Houston, TX.

Job Overview

This position establishes strategy, develops business plans, and oversees and leads in the design, development and implementation of technology solutions to meet business needs. Leaders in this role provide leadership and oversight to manage performance and results in one or more Information Technology (IT) disciplines. Individuals will be accountable for the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems and supported business processes.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides leadership, influence, vision, and direction to the organization to contribute to achieving the company's goals
• Works with IT leaders to develop overall IT strategy in alignment with business strategy
• Oversees value stream by focusing on cost and risks of technology portfolio to meet business needs
• Supports and fosters innovative technologies to deliver new ideas that enable business transformation
• Ensures high levels of ongoing system and application performance in production environments
• Oversees development of processes and tools to automate code releases from development to operations (DevOps)
• Attracts, develops and retains a high-performing and diverse team
• Establishes and drives technology roadmaps that align with current and future business needs
• Manages third party technical and outsourcing relationships to deliver project and operational support objectives
• Ensures technology processes are conducted in line with applicable standards and company policies
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 7+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Supervisor/Management Experience: 2+ years

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

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 [e-mail] , 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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