Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

Date: Oct 27, 2026

Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408

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

This position implements and maintains on-premises and cloud-based company and product data infrastructure, including relational databases, non-relational databases and any other data stores required by the company or its products. Employees in this role are responsible for creating processes and implementing software to facilitate management of data including, but not limited to, data pipelines, data catalogs, data governance, master data and overall data quality.

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

• Responds to data extraction requests

• 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. Clickto learn more.

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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