Principal IT Programmer Analyst

Principal IT Programmer Analyst

Date: May 18, 2026

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

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 95141

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

The Principal IT Programmer Analyst within NEER Solutions serves as a senior technical leader responsible for the full stack design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade platforms supporting NextEra Energy Retail's mass market operations. This individual operates at the intersection of technology and business — capable of architecting scalable .NET/SQL solutions and communicating those decisions with clarity to business stakeholders and senior leadership. They lead distributed onshore/offshore teams and champion AI-assisted development as a standard of modern delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and deliver full stack solutions using .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API) and Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability

• Manage and own a customer call center application stack, including telephony platform administration and integration

• Deliver and manage AI chatbot and/or voice bot solutions, including NLP/LLM platform configuration, conversational design integration, and backend API connectivity

• Familiarity with contact center AI capabilities — agent assist, real-time transcription, sentiment analysis, bot containment reporting

• Integrate telephony and chatbot platforms with CRM and billing systems via REST APIs or middleware

• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical standards enforcement across enterprise platforms

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate delivery velocity and improve code quality

• Evaluate and recommend architectural patterns, technology upgrades, and integration approaches

The ideal candidate will have the following experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field (Master's in MIS or CS strongly preferred)

• 8+ years of progressive software development experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or principal capacity

• Expert-level proficiency in .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core, Web API, MVC) and Microsoft SQL Server (schema design, stored procedures, query optimization, indexing)

• Proven experience designing and optimizing IVR call flows and queue routing logic in telephony platforms

• Familiarity with contact center AI capabilities — agent assist, real-time transcription, sentiment analysis, bot containment reporting

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, Git)

• Demonstrated, hands-on use of AI coding and productivity tools as a regular part of the development workflow

• Proven experience leading and managing distributed onshore/offshore development teams

• Cloud platform exposure — GCP, AWS preferred

• Exceptional business-facing communication skills — able to present to Directors, VPs, and business leads without relying on technical jargon

Job Overview

This position assesses, designs, develops, integrates and troubleshoots technology to support business processes. Employees provide technical or functional guidance to project or work teams, as needed within specific or multiple disciplines. This position is accountable for ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems, as well as ensuring that excellent technical support services are provided.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, maintains, integrates, customizes, and enhances existing or new systems

• Applies appropriate Agile or development methodologies, system development lifecycles, tools, and technology to manage development activities

• Automates the handoff of code releases from development to operations (DevOps)

• Participates in the change management and service ticket management processes including receiving, resolution monitoring, and ensuring customer satisfaction

• Leads projects when needed and builds strong working understanding of the solution being delivered

• Ensures user satisfaction by providing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and timely resolution of more complex problems

• Designs, develops, and tests experimental application work to test new ideas with bounded cost and time frames

• Ensures that applications processes are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, security, compliance, environmental, and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation

• Acts as liaison with regulatory agencies, vendors, and contractors on matters relating to computer systems as required

• Defines metrics and monitors Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for systems being developed

• 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 - Information Systems

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.

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, 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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