Principal IT Architect

Principal IT Architect

Date: Jun 2, 2026

Location(s): Houston, TX, US, 77002

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 95297

At Gexa Energy, a NextEra Energy Resources company, we provide reliable low-cost energy solutions. Focused on customer satisfaction, we offer innovative electricity plans tailored to the diverse needs of Texas homes and businesses. If you're passionate about making a difference in the energy industry and delivering exceptional customer experiences, join our team today.

Position Specific Description

Job Overview

The Principal IT Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining, governing, and driving enterprise‑level technology architecture. This role develops and maintains high‑level logical and technical designs, guides strategic technology decisions, and ensures solutions align with business strategy, risk posture, and long‑term scalability. The role serves as a top‑level expert and visionary across assigned technologies, platforms, or domains.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and evolution of enterprise and domain architecture, including current state, future state, and transition architectures

• Partner with business and IT leadership to analyze strategies, operating models, and industry trends to define architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps

• Drive digital modernization and innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into pragmatic, scalable solutions

• Define high level migration and transformation plans to close capability gaps and retire technical debt

• Establish and enforce architecture governance, assurance, and compliance with enterprise standards

• Oversee evaluation, selection, risk assessment, and design standards for hardware, software, platforms, and services

• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts (e.g., reference architectures, solution designs, concepts of operation)

• Coach and mentor senior architects and technical SMEs, promoting consistency and best practices across the architecture landscape

• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to executive, business, and delivery stakeholders, demonstrating business value and tradeoffs

The ideal candidate will have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of progressive experience in IT architecture, systems design, or large scale solution delivery

• Proven experience designing and governing enterprise scale architectures across multiple platforms or domains

• Strong expertise in enterprise and solution architecture concepts and patterns

• Strategic thinking with the ability to translate business goals into executable technology roadmaps

• Deep understanding of technology lifecycle management, risk management, and architectural governance

• Excellent leadership, influence, and stakeholder communication skills

• Ability to simplify complex technical topics for executive decision making

• Strong documentation, analytical, and problem solving skills

Job Overview

This position develops and maintains high-level designs for overall logical and technical IT architecture. Employees in this role provide leadership, strategic decision-making, and guidance within technical disciplines, responding to disruptive technologies and solving unique and complex problems. Individuals facilitate and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through technical decisions. Leaders in this job serve as top-level experts and visionaries in the development of roadmaps, strategy, and design for assigned technology areas.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Works with business partners to analyze strategy and trends to define the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions

• Communicates and enforces technology standards with business partners

• Understands industry trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies

• Drives digital innovation and develops roadmaps through new technologies and approaches to fulfill strategic business plans

• Defines high-level migration plans to address gaps in current state

• Coaches, mentors, and leads technical subject matters experts to enable and drive consistency across technology architectures

• Designs and owns governance, assurance, and standards activities for enterprise technology architecture compliance

• Oversees and facilitates the evaluation, risk assessment, selection, and design of hardware and software technology and product standards

• Delivers technology architecture artifacts, possibly including reference architectures or concepts of operation

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED

• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

• Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Clickto learn more.

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Information Technology

Organization: Gexa Energy, LP

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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