Lead Data Engineer — Enterprise AI & Data Pipelines

Florida Power & Light; Juno Beach (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Florida Power & Light Company is 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 leader will design data pipelines with Databricks, mentor engineers, enforce governance, security, and cost discipline, and drive production of data products from development to production while ensuring reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 6+ years of relevant experience.

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.

Skills

Databricks

Python

PySpark

SQL

Git

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Florida Power & Light Company is 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 leader will design data pipelines with Databricks, mentor engineers, enforce governance, security, and cost discipline, and drive production of data products from development to production while ensuring reliability.