Product Delivery Lead

NextEra Energy Services; Florida; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

NextEra Energy is seeking a Product Delivery Lead to drive requirements quality, testing, and release readiness across the Conduit portfolio. The role coordinates refinement, end-to-end testing, and release governance with Product Owners, engineering teams, and external partners, ensuring traceability to business needs and reliable production deployment.

You will establish standards, manage risk-based testing, and lead defect triage, with a focus on quality, predictability, and efficient

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience required.
• 6+ years of software quality, testing or delivery experience preferred.
• Experience with enterprise asset management and systems like SAP/Maximo is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain requirements quality standards and traceability.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across Conduit and connected systems.
• Define release quality gates and readiness criteria.
• Lead defect management and triage processes.
• Maintain visibility into product quality and delivery risks.
• Partner with Product Owners to facilitate business validation.

Skills

Requirements quality

Test coordination

Release readiness

Cross-functional collaboration

Defect management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Maximo

APIs

Enterprise systems

Job description

Product Delivery Lead

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 98372

NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!

Position Specific Description

We are seeking a detail-oriented, technically capable Product Delivery Lead to drive requirements quality, integrated testing, and release readiness across the Conduit product portfolio.

This role will establish disciplined practices that ensure product enhancements are clearly defined, traceable to business needs, thoroughly validated, and ready for reliable production deployment. The successful candidate will coordinate requirements refinement, end-to-end testing, business acceptance, defect management, and release quality across Conduit and connected platforms, including SAP, Maximo, internal systems, and vendor solutions.

The position requires a combination of business analysis, software quality assurance, systems understanding, delivery coordination, and structured problem-solving. This individual will partner closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, business stakeholders, system owners, and technology vendors to identify delivery risks early, resolve quality issues, and continuously improve the reliability and predictability of product releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain standards for requirements quality, including clarity, completeness, consistency, testability, and traceability.
• Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to refine business needs into clearly defined functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across Conduit and connected systems, including integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability linking business needs, functional requirements, test scenarios, defects, and acceptance outcomes.
• Establish risk-based testing approaches that prioritize critical business workflows, system integrations, and operational impacts.
• Lead defect and issue triage processes, including classification, prioritization, assignment, escalation, retesting, and closure.
• Coordinate testing dependencies, environments, test data, and execution schedules with engineering teams, and enterprise-system owners.
• Define release quality gates and readiness criteria, ensuring stakeholders have transparent evidence of outstanding defects, risks, and operational readiness.
• Support Product Owners and business stakeholders through structured user acceptance testing and formal business acceptance.
• Develop reusable testing practices, templates, quality metrics, and documentation to improve consistency across the product portfolio.
• Identify recurring quality issues, requirements gaps, and delivery inefficiencies, recommending preventive improvements.
• Promote the appropriate use of test automation, AI-assisted testing, and modern quality-management tools to improve coverage and efficiency.

Job Overview
This position provides leadership for requirements quality, integrated testing, and product release readiness across an enterprise application ecosystem.

Employees in this role are responsible for establishing consistent quality-management practices, coordinating validation activities across multiple teams and systems, and providing transparent evidence of product readiness.

The role serves as a delivery-quality connector between Product Owners, business stakeholders, software engineering teams, enterprise-system owners, and external technology partners. It emphasizes proactive quality management, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement throughout the product delivery lifecycle.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains requirements quality standards, acceptance criteria, and traceability practices.
• Coordinates functional, integration, regression, and business acceptance testing activities.
• Establishes testing strategies, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
• Leads defect management, issue triage, prioritization, and resolution tracking.
• Maintains visibility into product quality, testing progress, critical defects, and outstanding delivery risks.
• Coordinates cross-system testing dependencies and supports resolution of integration-related issues.
• Partners with Product Owners to facilitate business validation and acceptance of delivered capabilities.
• Identifies opportunities to improve test efficiency, quality practices, and delivery predictability.
• Develops reusable quality-management procedures, reporting, and documentation.
• Supports production readiness reviews and post-release quality assessments.
• Leads quality-related workstreams and cross-functional delivery activities.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software quality assurance, business analysis, product delivery, systems testing, or enterprise application implementation.
• Experience coordinating testing and release activities involving multiple applications, interfaces, business teams, and technology partners.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, Agile delivery practices, requirements management, and defect management.
• Experience with enterprise asset management, work management, SAP, Maximo, or other operational business systems.
• Experience developing test strategies, test cases, requirements traceability matrices, and release readiness assessments.
• Familiarity with APIs, system integrations

Job Overview

Employees in this job plan, monitor and manage large-scale internal projects from initiation through completion. This role provides direction on projects to the department or project team members.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversees a variety of large-scale projects of high complexity
• Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
• Secures required resources and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes
• Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis
• Identifies issues and challenges, measures and validates results, and implements solutions
• Provides expert information to internal and external clients on complex issues
• Creates and communicates presentation materials for report out and updates with various levels of internal and external stakeholders
• Conducts external research and stays abreast of new developments or innovative advancements pertaining to the project
• Provides coaching, leadership and direction to project team
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree
• Project Management Professional (PMP)

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: Project Management
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
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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