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# IT Master Architect

- **Company:** NextEra Energy
- **Location:** Palm Beach Gardens, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management Databases, Cyber Security, Domain Name System (DNS), High-Level Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Software Engineering, IT Architecture, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Network Server
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3360122879&tx=JK1509FFK&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 8+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation, including at least 5+ years in a senior or principal architecture role.
 * Proven track record leading enterprise-scale infrastructure architecture across cloud, compute/servers, networking, security, identity, and operations platforms in complex, multi-domain environments.
 * Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Infrastructure as Code-driven provisioning systems (e.g., Terraform or equivalent), including automated workflows, orchestration, and policy-based controls.
 * Experience serving as a lead architect or technical authority in cross-functional initiatives involving internal engineering teams and external system integrators or vendors.
 * History of making final or near-final architecture decisions that balance security, operational readiness, scalability, standardization, and delivery speed in production environments.
 * Demonstrated ability to define and enforce enterprise infrastructure standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures adopted across multiple teams or domains.
 * Strong communication and influence skills, with experience operating in environments requiring alignment across application development, infrastructure operations, cybersecurity, and platform engineering teams., * High School Grad / GED
 * Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
 * Experience: 8+ years, * Bachelor's Degree

## Description

This position will serve as a senior technologist responsible for driving architecture decisions, technical design direction, and cross-domain alignment required to deliver automated infrastructure provisioning for application deployments. This role works closely with implementation partners, architects, engineers, cybersecurity, operations, and application teams to ensure automation delivers secure, compliant, supportable, and application-ready infrastructure outcomes.

This role requires broad technical depth across cloud, servers, networking, security, identity, automation, and related infrastructure platforms. The architect defines reusable infrastructure patterns, validates technical designs, resolves cross-domain dependencies, and makes key architecture decisions as provisioning workflows move from strategy into production implementation.

Responsibilities

 * Own architecture for automated provisioning of infrastructure resources across cloud, compute, networking, security, DNS/IPAM, IAM, ITSM/CMDB, monitoring, and operations.
 * Direct design decisions with implementation partners to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards, operational requirements, and long-term ownership models.
 * Define and enforce reusable infrastructure patterns, interfaces, controls, and operating requirements for application-ready infrastructure across domains.
 * Identify, analyze, and eliminate technical dependencies, design gaps, and provisioning bottlenecks that result in manual tickets, handoffs, or delays.
 * Make architecture decisions across Infrastructure as Code, orchestration, policy automation, integration, resiliency, observability, supportability, and lifecycle management.
 * Validate that delivered automation capabilities are fully supportable, operable, and extensible by NextEra teams in production environments., 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., * 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


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