Lead Data Engineer

NextEra Energy; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy seeks a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to architect and deliver enterprise-grade data and AI products powering an executive intelligence platform.

This role sits within Marketing & Communications but supports broader enterprise use cases, leading design, mentoring engineers, and moving data initiatives from development to production with focus on reliability, security, governance, and cost discipline.

Qualifications

• Lead data engineering with enterprise-grade data products.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks pipelines, PySpark and SQL.
• Mentor engineers, design data products and drive productionization.
• Experience with governance, security, and cost discipline.
• Collaborate across data science, product, DevOps and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate Databricks pipelines, Jobs, Delta tables, and ingestion frameworks.
• Lead data architecture, engineering standards, code reviews, and mentoring; productionize prototypes.
• Integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from diverse sources.
• Build secure, observable data integrations with governance and data contracts.
• Engineer AI workflows with prompts, RAG, vector search, and Databricks LLM apps.
• Create explainable decision systems with rules, models, and human review; monitor performance.
• Optimize compute and storage costs through right-sizing and autoscaling.
• Partner with data science, product, DevOps, security, architecture, and business teams.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

Data pipelines

Git

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Databricks

Git

CI/CD

Job description

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.