Lead Data Engineer

NextEra Energy Resources; Juno Beach (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy is seeking a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver enterprise-grade data and AI products supporting an executive intelligence platform. You’ll mentor engineers, drive data product production, and ensure reliability, governance, and cost discipline across the stack.

You will design and operate Databricks pipelines, manage data ingestion, and collaborate across data science, product, DevOps, security, and business teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar role.
• Strong Python, PySpark, and SQL skills for building data pipelines.
• Experience leading teams and mentoring engineers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, test, deploy, and operate Databricks pipelines and Delta tables.
• Lead data architecture, code reviews, and mentoring with CI/CD practices.
• Integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from multiple sources.
• Develop production AI workflows with robust governance and observability.
• Optimize compute and storage costs and ensure data quality and lineage.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data engineering

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Databricks

Git

CI/CD

Job description

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Date: Sep 28, 2026

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 97609

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

We are seeking a hands‑on Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver enterprise‑grade data and AI products that power an executive intelligence platform. The role sits within Marketing & Communications but supports broader enterprise use cases. This person will lead technical design, mentor engineers, and quickly move data products and AI applications from development through QA and into production while maintaining reliability, security, governance, explainability, and cost discipline.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate Databricks pipelines, Jobs, Delta tables, and reusable ingestion frameworks using Python, PySpark, and SQL.
• Lead data architecture, engineering standards, code reviews, and mentoring while rapidly productionizing prototypes through Git, CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, release validation, monitoring, and rollback practices.
• Integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from internal systems, databases, APIs, files, documents, vendor feeds, public sources, and event streams.
• Build resilient, governed integrations with secure authentication, pagination, rate-limit handling, retries, schema management, data contracts, lineage, quality controls, observability, and recovery procedures.
• Engineer production AI workflows using prompt templates and versioning, scheduled or event-triggered prompt execution, RAG, vector search, knowledge graphs, agent and tool orchestration, and Databricks LLM applications.
• Build explainable decision systems that combine business rules, algorithms, model outputs, confidence thresholds, and human review; implement evaluation, guardrails, tracing, and performance monitoring.
• Optimize Databricks compute and cloud storage costs through workload right‑sizing, efficient job design, autoscaling and auto‑termination, table and file optimization, retention policies, and ongoing spend monitoring.
• Partner across data science, product, DevOps, security, architecture, and business teams; communicate clearly, surface risks early, and drive practical solutions.

Job Overview

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages data acquisition and ingestion
• Manages and optimizes data access
• Sets strategic direction for data management programs and initiatives
• Designs, plans, implements and supports data infrastructure using both relational and non-relational data
• Tests, validates and maintains data quality across all parts of data infrastructure
• Maintains and manages data pipelines and data catalogs
• Mentors others or leads teams and/or projects
• Monitors the health of data infrastructure
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• None

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.

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