Agile Leader

Requisition ID: 91985

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation's most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful
• Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.

Position Specific Description

This position plays a critical role in driving and fostering the agile mindset and practices within the IT Technology Solutions & Operations (TSO) organization. Position will be responsible for leading and executing the agile delivery of high-quality infrastructure related technology solutions within schedule and budget. Position is expected to have a deep understanding of agile principles, values, and frameworks, and the ability to adapt them to different project and organizational contexts. The Agile Leader must also balance agile/ scrum and traditional project management approaches, aligning methodologies to meet the specific needs of the product or service being delivered.

Specific Job Functions:

• Lead and successfully deliver products primarily focused on infrastructure and end-user related technology solutions.
• Manage budgets, including forecasting, tracking spending, and understanding the levers to ensure projects stay aligned to financial metrics.
• Monitor and track team progress and performance metrics, providing timely feedback and implementing corrective actions when necessary. This includes implementing and using standard processes and dashboards (such as JIRA) to build a common view of work across TSO.
• Provide governance and standardization for the Project Management Office (PMO), offering direct guidance to a cross-functional group of project managers and agile leaders to alignstandards and best practices across the organization.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for coordinating TSO services across major projects, ensuring seamless integration and communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage and oversee a process for handling unplanned work, ensuring that emerging needs are addressed efficiently and effectively without disrupting ongoing initiatives.
• Manage vendors, or third-party partners related to product delivery, as needed.
• Understand and support TSO operating model including product delivery, business strategy, stakeholders, goals, and services.
• Promote a culture of learning and innovation within the teams, encouraging experimentation and the adoption of new tools and techniques.
• Leads portfolio/ program ceremonies ensuring alignment across TSO, IT and business stakeholders
• Collaborate with other leaders, scrum masters, project managers, and stakeholders to drive organizational agility and promote best practices across teams and departments.
• Promotes and encourages collaboration and transparency and builds trusting relationships between business, delivery, and other entities within the organization
• Reports on standardized program-level metrics, and understands, tracks, and operates within the program budget
• 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
• Contributes to Communities of Practice (CoP), within the agile network
• Project Management certifications(PMP)/ Agile certifications such as Certified
• ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
• Extensive experience working in technology/ software development, with a focus on project management, Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean
• Strong leadership and coaching abilities, with a demonstrated ability to motivate and
• inspire
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Ability to identify and resolve conflicts and facilitate decision-making in a collaborative and consensus-driven manner
• Passion for learning and continuous improvement, with a growth mindset and a willingness to explore new approaches and technologies
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

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+ years

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

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Information Technology
Organization: Florida Power & Light Company
Relocation Provided: No

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