Principal IT Architect

Principal IT Architect

Date: Jun 2, 2026

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

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 95297

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

Required Qualifications

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

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

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.