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Lead Data Scientist

NextEra Energy • Juno Beach, FL • 3h ago

Lead Data Scientist

Date: Jun 27, 2025

Location(s): Juno Beach, FL, US, 33408

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 88278

NextEra Energy Resources is one of America's largest wholesale generators of electricity, leveraging all forms of energy across renewables, storage and nuclear. We offer customized energy solutions that drive economic growth, protect the environment, support communities, and help customers meet their energy needs. Ready to make a lasting impact? Join our innovative, world-class team today!

Position Specific Description

Business Management Strategic Initiatives team is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to assume responsibility in analyzing and interpreting complex data to drive informed business decisions and strategic initiatives. This position involves managing large datasets, developing advanced predictive models, and working closely with cross-functional teams to implement data-focused solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the analysis of large datasets to generate actionable insights and create visual interactivity for enhanced user engagement. Develop, refine, and oversee predictive models and advanced algorithms. Collaborate with various departments to integrate data analysis seamlessly into business processes. Conduct and oversee ad-hoc analysis, presenting insightful results to key stakeholders. Ensure and enforce data quality and integrity across projects.

Position Specific Required Skills:

Technical Skills: Proficiency in statistical programming languages such as Python or R, experience with SQL for complex data manipulation and expertise in big data tools and machine learning frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch. Analytical Skills: Superior analytical and problem-solving capabilities to interpret data and derive meaningful insights. Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of the energy sector, with an emphasis on renewable energy resources. Leadership Skills: Strong ability to lead and mentor data science teams, manage projects, and influence decision-making processes. Communication Skills: Excellent ability to communicate complex data findings in a clear and concise manner to non-technical stakeholders. Collaboration Skills: Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and on a matrixed team

Job Overview

This position is responsible for leading the development of algorithms, modeling techniques, and optimization methods that support many aspects of NextEra and FPL business. Employees in this role use knowledge of machine learning, optimization, statistics, and applied mathematics along with abilities in software engineering with a focus on distributed computing and data storage infrastructure (i.e., "Big Data").

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Provide thought leadership, set technical strategy, and identify possible uses of data science methods

Explain methods and results to upper-level executives

Develop machine learning, optimizations or other modeling solutions

Oversee related employee work, learn new techniques being developed

Prepares comprehensive documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses

Works with big data and distributed computing platforms

Develops software and contributes to product development

Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree

Experience: 6+ years

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree

Doctoral Degree

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

Employee Group: Exempt

Employee Type: Full Time

Job Category: Science, Research, and Technology

Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, 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 and 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, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.

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.

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