Senior Power Platform Solutions Architect

Northwestern Mutual; Town of King (WI); On-site; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual in Wisconsin seeks a Senior Solutions Engineer to design and build data-connected solutions using Power Platform, APIs, and enterprise data assets to empower field and home office partners.

You will lead discovery, translate business needs into scalable analytics and automation, mentor teammates, and align solutions with governance and security standards while delivering sustainable, high-value outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing solutions using Microsoft Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and related services.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong consulting, communication, and relationship management skills to lead discovery conversations and align stakeholders.
• Connect technology solutions to business objectives, measurable value creation, and long-term sustainability.
• Own solutions through the full lifecycle from discovery to knowledge transfer.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems through APIs, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, and SQL-based data sources.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery discussions, process assessments, and solution design conversations to understand business needs, identify root causes, evaluate opportunities, and define practical approaches that improve how work gets done.
• Partner with business stakeholders as a trusted advisor to translate complex operational challenges into high-value analytics, automation, and modernization solutions.
• Influence stakeholders to think beyond current-state processes by challenging assumptions, identifying improvement opportunities, and recommending scalable solutions aligned with strategic and operational objectives.
• Facilitate alignment across business partners, technical teams, and team members by clearly communicating options, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and recommended approaches.
• Design, develop, and support business solutions using Microsoft Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and related services.
• Build secure, scalable integrations between enterprise systems by leveraging APIs, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, SQL-based data sources, and other internal and external platforms.
• Own solutions beyond initial delivery, including monitoring, troubleshooting, feature enhancements, release planning, operational continuity, and stakeholder communication.
• Develop and promote reusable solution patterns, components, and best practices that improve delivery speed, maintainability, scalability, quality, and long-term sustainability.
• Actively contribute to a highly collaborative team environment by sharing knowledge, providing constructive feedback, partnering across disciplines, and helping establish consistent delivery approaches and best practices.
• Align solutions with enterprise architecture, data strategy, security, privacy, governance, and compliance standards while identifying opportunities for modernization and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and development approaches, and recommend how they can be applied to improve business outcomes and technical capabilities.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across multiple technologies and domains while enabling teammates through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Support the sustainability, resiliency, and operational effectiveness of Analytics & Innovation solutions through documentation, monitoring, support processes, and knowledge transfer.
• Contribute to the evolution of Analytics & Innovation’s analytics, automation, and modernization capabilities through the adoption of enterprise data platforms, integration technologies, and modern development practices.

Skills

Power Platform

Requirements translation

Stakeholder management

Solution lifecycle ownership

API integration

CI/CD

Team collaboration

Tools

Power Apps

Power Automate

Power BI

Dataverse

Microsoft Graph

SharePoint

SQL databases

Job description

Northwestern Mutual in Wisconsin seeks a Senior Solutions Engineer to design and build data-connected solutions using Power Platform, APIs, and enterprise data assets to empower field and home office partners.

You will lead discovery, translate business needs into scalable analytics and automation, mentor teammates, and align solutions with governance and security standards while delivering sustainable, high-value outcomes.