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Date: Nov 10, 2026
Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 98370
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description
We are seeking a hands-on Technical Conduit Delivery Lead to steward the architecture, shared data model, and integration ecosystem supporting the Conduit product portfolio.
This role will ensure that enhancements across Conduit and connected platforms—including SAP, Maximo, internal systems, vendor solutions, and emerging technologies—advance a coherent, secure, and sustainable technical architecture. The successful candidate will coordinate cross-system changes, establish reusable integration and data patterns, and rapidly evaluate new capabilities through working prototypes.
The position requires a combination of enterprise architecture, data and integration expertise, technical delivery leadership, and hands-on problem-solving. This individual will partner closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, enterprise architecture, data teams, business-system owners, and technology vendors to align dependencies and move solutions safely from concept through implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain Conduit’s target architecture, technical roadmap, integration principles, and architectural decision records.
- Ensure proposed enhancements align with long-term architecture, security, supportability, data governance, and operational requirements.
- Steward the shared Conduit data model, including data definitions, ownership, system-of-record boundaries, mappings, and synchronization patterns.
- Coordinate technical dependencies, interface changes, testing requirements, and delivery timelines with Product Owners, engineering teams, and connected-system owners.
- Review proposed solutions for architecture, integration, data, security, performance, reliability, and lifecycle-management impacts.
- Resolve cross-system questions involving data ownership, mappings, interfaces, dependencies, and synchronization.
- Establish reusable technical patterns, standards, and documentation that accelerate delivery while reducing unnecessary customization and technical debt.
- Build working prototypes using modern development tools, including agentic coding capabilities, to evaluate concepts and emerging technologies quickly.
- Help team members use coding agents and rapid-development tools safely, effectively, and consistently.
- Evaluate new technologies for architectural fit, business value, data implications, security, scalability, supportability, and long-term viability.
- Partner with quality, product, engineering, security, architecture, and operations teams to ensure solutions are testable and ready for production use.
- Identify technical risks and delivery conflicts early, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and drive practical resolution across stakeholder groups.
- Monitor the effectiveness of integration and data patterns and recommend improvements based on delivery outcomes and operational performance.
Job Overview
This position provides technical leadership for the architecture, data, and integration capabilities supporting an enterprise product ecosystem. Employees in this role are responsible for establishing and maintaining technical direction, coordinating cross-system delivery, and ensuring that technology investments result in scalable, reliable, secure, and supportable solutions.
The role serves as a technical connector between product teams, business-system owners, engineering teams, enterprise architecture, data organizations, and external technology partners. It combines strategic architectural stewardship with hands-on technical evaluation, prototyping, and delivery coordination.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Establishes and maintains target-state architecture and technical roadmaps.
- Defines and governs integration principles, reusable patterns, and technical standards.
- Maintains shared data models, data definitions, mappings, and system-of-record boundaries.
- Reviews enhancements for architecture, integration, data, security, and supportability impacts.
- Coordinates technical dependencies and interface changes across connected systems.
- Partners with engineering teams and system owners to plan, test, and implement cross-system changes.
- Evaluates emerging technologies and recommends appropriate adoption paths.
- Develops prototypes and proofs of concept to validate technical approaches.
- Documents architectural decisions, technical risks, dependencies, and implementation requirements.
- Promotes scalable solutions and minimizes unnecessary site-specific or system-specific customization.
- Supports technical troubleshooting and resolution of complex cross-platform issues.
- Mentors team members and provides technical guidance on architecture, integration, data, and modern development tools.
- Leads technical workstreams, initiatives, or cross-functional delivery efforts.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise asset management, work management, claims, or operational technology platforms.
- Experience with cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven integrations, middleware, data pipelines, and modern integration architectures.
- Experience creating architectural diagrams, interface specifications, data mappings, technical roadmaps, and decision records.
- Experience developing prototypes or proofs of concept using Python, SQL, APIs, low-code tools, or other modern development technologies.
- Familiarity with generative AI, agentic coding tools, AI-assisted software development, or emerging enterprise AI capabilities.
- Experience working in Agile product-delivery environments with Product Owners, engineering teams, and operational stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor others and establish reusable technical standards and development patterns.
Measures of Success
- Scalable, maintainable integration patterns are consistently applied.
- System-of-record and data-ownership boundaries are clearly defined and understood.
- Shared data definitions and mappings remain reliable across connected systems.
- Cross-system changes are coordinated without avoidable conflicts, delays, or rework.
- Architectural decisions and technical dependencies are documented and transparent.
- Emerging technologies are evaluated quickly through practical, working prototypes.
- Technical solutions meet security, reliability, supportability, and long-term-value expectations.
Job Overview
This position owns key initiatives within a workstream pertaining to a specific functional area that may be ongoing and simultaneous at different stages of the product cycle. Employees contribute across teams within a domain, working cross-functionally and externally to drive product discovery, facilitate product delivery, and are accountable for the shared success of the domain.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Write and review product briefs, epics, stories, and tasks that provide detailed requirements for the development and QA teams with no supervision.
- Own the primary interaction with the implementation teams (Dev, QA, Design, and Marketing) to ensure successful product delivery.
- Work closely with the domain-specific teams to ensure their tools are fully supported and issues are resolved quickly.
- Own research and product discovery across internal business units and external parties, and document requirements with no supervision.
- Own the requirements, implementation, and documentation of specific features.
- Own data analysis to inform data-driven decisions and define insights.
- Own product roadmap for an initiative with no supervision.
- Own vendor and 3rd party integrations with no supervision.
- Showcases a strong understanding of the competitor landscape, market trends, and customer/partner needs as it pertains to a specific domain.
- 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.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
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 recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, 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.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies.
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Align your credentials to specialty occupation criteria
Solutions architecture requires a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or engineering to satisfy USCIS specialty occupation standards. If your degree is in a loosely related field, gather coursework transcripts and professional certifications like AWS or Azure to reinforce the direct-relationship argument.
Check prevailing wage tiers before accepting an offer
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the prevailing wage for your specific work location before negotiations. Lead-level roles typically fall at Wage Level III or IV, and an offer pegged below that tier will fail LCA certification regardless of what you've agreed to.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Find Lead Solutions Architect roles at employers with verified sponsorship history on Migrate Mate, which surfaces companies with documented LCA filings for this title so you're not cold-applying to firms that have never navigated the process.
Distinguish between architecture and management scope in your resume
Employers filing an H-1B or E-3 LCA must justify the specialty occupation classification to DOL. Your resume should emphasize technical design responsibilities, not team leadership alone. Reviewers flag titles where management duties dominate, so frame your experience around system design, stakeholder integration, and technology selection.
Clarify the LCA work-site address if your role is hybrid or remote
DOL requires a certified LCA for each physical worksite location where you'll work. If your employer lists headquarters but you'll work from a different metro area, the LCA must reflect your actual location. Confirm this detail in writing before the I-129 petition is filed to avoid a later compliance issue.
Use TN if you hold Canadian or Mexican citizenship
Lead Solutions Architect roles can qualify under the TN visa's Systems Analyst or Computer Systems Analyst categories for Canadian and Mexican nationals. TN requires no lottery, no annual cap, and no USCIS petition for Canadians, who can present documentation directly at the port of entry.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead Solutions Architect role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS recognizes solutions architecture as a specialty occupation because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, or a directly related technical field. The lead-level scope, involving enterprise system design and cross-functional technical authority, strengthens that classification. If your degree is in a broader field, strong certifications and a tightly written job description help the employer's case.
Which visa types do employers most commonly sponsor for this role?
H-1B is the most common path for non-treaty nationals. Australian citizens can use the E-3, which carries a separate cap and has no lottery. Canadian and Mexican nationals often pursue TN under the Systems Analyst or Computer Systems Analyst USMCA category. Each visa requires the employer to file an LCA with DOL certifying that the offered wage meets the prevailing wage for your work location and job level.
How do I find Lead Solutions Architect jobs where the employer is already set up to sponsor?
Browse Lead Solutions Architect listings on Migrate Mate, where every employer shown has verified LCA sponsorship history for roles in this field. That cuts out the guesswork of applying to companies that have never sponsored before and reduces the risk of an offer falling through because an employer's legal team isn't familiar with the process.
What degree does the employer need to list on the LCA for this title?
DOL and USCIS expect the job posting and LCA to specify a degree in a directly related technical discipline, most commonly computer science, information systems, electrical engineering, or software engineering. Listing only 'bachelor's degree in any field' weakens the specialty occupation argument. Employers filing for lead or principal-level architects typically cite the specific technical field plus equivalent professional experience for candidates with non-traditional educational backgrounds.
Can I switch employers after my H-1B is approved for a Lead Solutions Architect role?
Yes. H-1B portability lets you start working for a new employer once that employer files a new H-1B petition on your behalf, without waiting for USCIS approval, as long as you're already in valid H-1B status. The new employer must file their own LCA reflecting the new work location and offered wage, and the role must continue to qualify as a specialty occupation.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Lead Solutions Architect jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.