Principal IT Architect - Salesforce

Requisition ID: 94588

Do you want to create innovative solutions that deliver real value to customers? At FPL Energy Services (FPLES), you’ll join a dynamic team driving smart, reliable, and affordable offerings—from LED lighting to home protection, HVAC, fiber, and more. Be part of a business that thrives on innovation, customer focus, and a culture of excellence. Join us and help shape the future of energy services.

Position Specific Description

FPLES is seeking a Technical Architect to lead engineering execution across our Salesforce-centric operational systems supporting 2.5M customers. This individual will serve as the senior technical leader responsible for driving high-quality development, ensuring technical integrations across Salesforce, SAP, AWS, and custom applications, and leading both internal and offshore development teams.

This role is the primary point of accountability for technical delivery, including solution design, development standards, code quality, SIT readiness, and cross-system integration integrity.

This role will also support the IT Director in maturing the IT organization, improving engineering processes, and helping elevate team performance, but engineering execution remains the number one priority.

Key Responsibilities

1. Engineering Execution & Delivery

• Lead and manage all engineering resources (internal, contract, and offshore) across Salesforce, SAP integration, AWS, and custom-built platforms.
• Own delivery across sprints, releases, projects, enhancements, and production fixes.
• Break down technical work, estimate complexity, assign tasks, and enforce engineering accountability.
• Oversee code quality through code reviews, standards enforcement, and mentorship.
• Provide hands-on guidance for troubleshooting, debugging, and resolving complex technical issues.
• Ensure timely, reliable delivery of new development and ongoing system enhancements.

2. Technical Architecture & Solution Design

• Serve as the technical design authority across Salesforce and integrated enterprise systems.
• Own system architecture documents, technical designs, API/interface patterns, and integration frameworks.
• Drive consistency across domain-specific technical managers (Salesforce, SAP, AWS, etc.).
• Validate integration flows between Salesforce ↔ SAP ↔ AWS ↔ homegrown apps.
• Approve technical solutions before development begins and prior to SIT.

3. Quality, Testing, & Release Readiness

• Ensure SIT readiness, including test data, integration setup, and technical environment availability.
• Support QA and SIT teams by ensuring interfaces and technical dependencies are functional.
• Own resolution of SIT and UAT technical defects across all systems.
• Partner with DevOps/Release Management to improve CI/CD, deployments, and environment reliability.
• Drive reduction in production incidents through improved engineering discipline.

4. Cross-Team Technical Leadership

• Provide daily technical direction to developers, technical managers, offshore pods, and platform specialists.
• Partner with Product, Business Analysts, and the Director to evaluate technical feasibility.
• Act as the senior escalation point for major production issues.

5. IT Organizational Support

Support the Director in implementing a more structured engineering organization.

Help define engineering processes such as:

• Coding standards
• Architecture review practices
• SIT/UAT readiness criteria
• Release management processes
• Documentation standards
• Provide input on team structure, roles, skill development, and staffing needs.
• Help improve governance, intake, prioritization, change management, and operational maturity.
  

Required Technical Skills

Salesforce Core Skills (Must-Have)

Deep hands-on knowledge of:

• Apex (Classes, Triggers, Test Classes)
• Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• Flows, Process Automation, and Orchestration
• SOQL/SOSL and performance optimization
• Salesforce Data Model & Object Relationships
• Platform security (profiles, roles, sharing model)
• Java
• Experience with Service Cloud and customer-facing processes.
  

Salesforce Integration Expertise

Experience designing and troubleshooting integrations using:

• REST/SOAP APIs
• Platform Events
• Change Data Capture (CDC)
• Middleware (Mulesoft, SAP PO/PI, Boomi, or similar)
• Strong understanding of synchronous vs. asynchronous patterns.
• SAP & Enterprise Integration Skills

Experience with Salesforce ↔ SAP integrations using:

• IDocs
• BAPIs
• OData
• API-based integrations
• Middleware mapping & transformations
• Understanding of SAP functional modules related to customer operations.

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

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

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

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: FPL Energy Services, Inc
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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