Product Delivery Lead

Requisition ID:  98372 

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Position Specific Description

We are seeking a detail-oriented, technically capable Product Delivery Lead to drive requirements quality, integrated testing, and release readiness across the Conduit product portfolio. 

This role will establish disciplined practices that ensure product enhancements are clearly defined, traceable to business needs, thoroughly validated, and ready for reliable production deployment. The successful candidate will coordinate requirements refinement, end-to-end testing, business acceptance, defect management, and release quality across Conduit and connected platforms, including SAP, Maximo, internal systems, and vendor solutions. 

The position requires a combination of business analysis, software quality assurance, systems understanding, delivery coordination, and structured problem-solving. This individual will partner closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, business stakeholders, system owners, and technology vendors to identify delivery risks early, resolve quality issues, and continuously improve the reliability and predictability of product releases. 

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain standards for requirements quality, including clarity, completeness, consistency, testability, and traceability.
• Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to refine business needs into clearly defined functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across Conduit and connected systems, including integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Develop and maintain requirements traceability linking business needs, functional requirements, test scenarios, defects, and acceptance outcomes.
• Establish risk-based testing approaches that prioritize critical business workflows, system integrations, and operational impacts.
• Lead defect and issue triage processes, including classification, prioritization, assignment, escalation, retesting, and closure.
• Coordinate testing dependencies, environments, test data, and execution schedules with engineering teams, and enterprise-system owners.
• Define release quality gates and readiness criteria, ensuring stakeholders have transparent evidence of outstanding defects, risks, and operational readiness.
• Support Product Owners and business stakeholders through structured user acceptance testing and formal business acceptance.
• Develop reusable testing practices, templates, quality metrics, and documentation to improve consistency across the product portfolio.
• Identify recurring quality issues, requirements gaps, and delivery inefficiencies, recommending preventive improvements.
• Promote the appropriate use of test automation, AI-assisted testing, and modern quality-management tools to improve coverage and efficiency. 

 Job Overview 
This position provides leadership for requirements quality, integrated testing, and product release readiness across an enterprise application ecosystem. 

Employees in this role are responsible for establishing consistent quality-management practices, coordinating validation activities across multiple teams and systems, and providing transparent evidence of product readiness.

The role serves as a delivery-quality connector between Product Owners, business stakeholders, software engineering teams, enterprise-system owners, and external technology partners. It emphasizes proactive quality management, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement throughout the product delivery lifecycle. 

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains requirements quality standards, acceptance criteria, and traceability practices.
• Coordinates functional, integration, regression, and business acceptance testing activities.
• Establishes testing strategies, quality gates, and release readiness criteria.
• Leads defect management, issue triage, prioritization, and resolution tracking.
• Maintains visibility into product quality, testing progress, critical defects, and outstanding delivery risks.
• Coordinates cross-system testing dependencies and supports resolution of integration-related issues.
• Partners with Product Owners to facilitate business validation and acceptance of delivered capabilities.
• Identifies opportunities to improve test efficiency, quality practices, and delivery predictability.
• Develops reusable quality-management procedures, reporting, and documentation.
• Supports production readiness reviews and post-release quality assessments.
• Leads quality-related workstreams and cross-functional delivery activities.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software quality assurance, business analysis, product delivery, systems testing, or enterprise application implementation.
• Experience coordinating testing and release activities involving multiple applications, interfaces, business teams, and technology partners.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles, Agile delivery practices, requirements management, and defect management.
• Experience with enterprise asset management, work management, SAP, Maximo, or other operational business systems.
• Experience developing test strategies, test cases, requirements traceability matrices, and release readiness assessments.
• Familiarity with APIs, system integrations

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Employee Group:  Exempt
Employee Type:  Full Time
Job Category:  Project Management
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 [email protected], providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. 

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