Agile Leader

　　Date: Jan 22, 2024

　　Location(s): Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US, 33410

　　Company: NextEra Energy

　　Requisition ID: 78020

　　is America’s largest electric company, providing clean, affordable, and reliable electricity to more than 12 million people in Florida. We operate one of the cleanest power generation fleets in the U.S. and our reliability is among the best in the nation. Our goal is to achieve Real Zero carbon emissions from our operations by 2045 by expanding our solar capacity, increasing battery storage and bringing new renewable energy opportunities to Florida, while improving customer affordability and reliability. Are you interested in becoming a game-changer in the energy industry? Join our world-class team today!

　　Position Specific Description

　　NextEra Energy’s IT Team supporting the Power Delivery Business is seeking an experienced Agile IT leader with experience building and overseeing a strategic portfolio of technology initiatives spanning multiple platforms and teams. This position is business-facing and requires collaboration with numerous other IT groups. In addition to creating business value, this person will need to support strategic corporate initiatives and succeed in a highly matrixed environment.

　　• This position guides a group of employee and/or vendor teams in the execution of agile initiatives to deliver customer value with a focus on our Salesforce platform projects. The Agile Leader will oversee a large budget and scope and will coordinate with variety of teams to ensure successful and on-time delivery within the stated budgets. The Leader promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization. The successful candidate will be extremely organized, adept at all forms of communication, and a creative problem solver who leads using influence and excellent interpersonal skills.

　　The ability to lead and manage with a degree of ambiguity while supporting both IT and Business Unit goals is a must.

　　Highly Desired Qualifications:

　　• Strong leadership skills

　　• Strong experience within a scaled Agile Environment

　　• Agile Certification desired

　　• Six Sigma certification desired

　　• High proficiency with portfolio management concepts, tools and processes

　　• Communicate effectively on strategies, status, and outcomes

　　• Manages risks and dependencies, communicates and escalates impediments to facilitate transparency, and reduces bottlenecks

　　Please note, this role will require occasional travel between various NextEra corporate offices.

　　Job Duties & Responsibilities

　　• Trains and coaches leaders, teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindset

　　• Contributes in Communities of Practice (CoP), within the agile network

　　• Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization

　　• Facilitates periodic synchronization meetings across several different onsite and distributed delivery teams

　　• Prepares program and release backlogs, as well as team and program objectives

　　• Tracks, promotes, and publishes completed program features and program and team objectives

　　• Manages risk and dependencies, communicates and escalates impediments to facilitate transparency, and reduces bottlenecks

　　• Embraces a continuous improvement mindset, and drives the use of agile engineering best practices and innovation

　　• Reports on standardized program-level metrics, and understands, tracks, and operates within the program budget

　　• Plays an instrumental role in the organization’s Agile transformation, acts as a change agent, and shows strong leadership skills with a positive and collaborative attitude

　　• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

　　Required Qualifications

　　• High School Grad / GED

　　• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

　　• Experience: 7+ years

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　• Supervisor/Management Experience: 2+ years

　　Job Overview

　　This position guides teams in the execution of agile initiatives to deliver customer value. Employees in this role train and coach in the use of Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP, and scale agile framework practices.

　　Job Duties & Responsibilities

　　Trains and coaches leaders, teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindset

　　Contributes in Communities of Practice (CoP), within the agile network

　　Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization

　　Facilitates periodic synchronization meetings across several different onsite and distributed delivery teams

　　Prepares program and release backlogs, as well as team and program objectives

　　Tracks, promotes, and publishes completed program features and program and team objectives

　　Manages risk and dependencies, communicates and escalates impediments to facilitate transparency, and reduces bottlenecks

　　Embraces a continuous improvement mindset, and drives the use of agile engineering best practices and innovation

　　Reports on standardized program-level metrics, and understands, tracks, and operates within the program budget

　　Plays an instrumental role in the organization's Agile transformation, acts as a change agent, and shows strong leadership skills with a positive and collaborative attitude

　　Performs other job-related duties as assigned

　　Required Qualifications

　　High School Grad / GED

　　Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

　　Experience: 6+ years

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Supervisor/Management/Leadership Experience: 2+ yearsEmployee Group: Exempt

　　Employee Type: Full Time

　　Job Category: Information Technology

　　Organization: Florida Power & Light Company

　　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. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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