Senior Power Platform Solutions Architect

Northwestern Mutual; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual in Wisconsin is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to design and deliver data-connected solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform, APIs, and enterprise data assets to solve complex business challenges. You will partner with stakeholders to understand operational issues, translate requirements into scalable analytics, automation, and modernization capabilities.

The role requires hands-on development, troubleshooting, documentation, and ongoing support, along with mentoring

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing solutions with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps/Automate/BI) and Dataverse.
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions and communicating with stakeholders.
• Strong consulting, communication, and relationship management to lead discovery and influence decisions.
• Ability to connect technology solutions to business objectives, measurable value, and sustainability.
• Own solutions across full lifecycle: discovery to knowledge transfer and enhancements.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems via APIs, Graph, SharePoint, SQL, and modern integration tech.
• Experience implementing lifecycle governance, development standards, and CI/CD.
• Ability to mentor others, share knowledge, and contribute to reusable patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery discussions, process assessments, and solution design with stakeholders.
• Translate operational challenges into high-value analytics, automation, and modernization.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt scalable solutions aligned with objectives.
• Facilitate alignment among business partners, technical teams, and teammates.
• Design, develop, and support solutions using Power Platform and related services.
• Build secure, scalable integrations between enterprise systems with APIs and data sources.

Skills

Consulting skills

Communication

Relationship management

Problem solving

Lifecycle ownership

Stakeholder facilitation

Collaboration

Tools

Power Apps

Power Automate

Power BI

Dataverse

APIs

Microsoft Graph

SharePoint

SQL-based data sources

Job description

Northwestern Mutual in Wisconsin is seeking a Senior Solutions Engineer to design and deliver data-connected solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform, APIs, and enterprise data assets to solve complex business challenges. You will partner with stakeholders to understand operational issues, translate requirements into scalable analytics, automation, and modernization capabilities.

The role requires hands-on development, troubleshooting, documentation, and ongoing support, along with mentoring