Automation Solutions Engineer/ Power Platform Developer

Universities of Wisconsin • Milwaukee, WI

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About The Position

Job Summary: Provides technical leadership in the design, integration, delivery, and operational support of applications or services, development operations (DevOps), through automation and/or infrastructure as code. Provides advanced and varied consultation on infrastructure, anticipates issues and devises resolution methodology. Provides non-routine maintenance and long-term assistance to ensure subsystems and infrastructure function together, and business needs are met. Provides guidance and training to other staff and serves as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders

Job Duties: Develop PowerApps and Power Automate solutions that meet business requirements and remain flexible and agile to work with similar software running on different platforms. Connect data from different sources such as but not limited to Oracle, MariaDB, Amazon RedShift, Microsoft Dataverse, and SharePoint. Design, implement, test, troubleshoot and maintain complex business logic and workflows using Power Automate or similar software. Communicate with nontechnical business users to translate process requests into specific business requirements that will be used to implement the required automations and business intelligence solutions. Create and maintain technical documentation for Power Automate flows or similar software as needed. Detail-oriented mindset and ability to troubleshoot data integrity issues Ability to manage multiple priorities, and assess and adjust quickly to changing priorities as communicated by The Office of Research and The Graduate School

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computing field OR related fields
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Microsoft Power Automate and the Microsoft Power Suite, OR other similar software
• Evidence of 3+ years’ experience developing automated business workflows using industry standard tools. (Microsoft Power Automate, Ansible, Terraform, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, etc.)
• Knowledge of JSON, PowerShell, VBScript.
• Proven abilities to take initiative and be innovative
• Strong analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities
• Programming / scripting experience and knowledge of software development
• Effective Project Management experience
• Experience with developing dashboards in Microsoft Power BI or similar platforms
• Experience across the entire platform, PowerApps Canvas, Model Driven Apps, Power Automate flows
• Experience designing business processes and integrations between Microsoft and other applications.
• Experience with SQL
• Experience with Azure cloud services.
• Extensive experience using Power BI and Power Apps
• Experience with Power Automate
• Experience with M, DAX and SQL.
• Experience with ETL design, analytics and reporting
• Experience with developing and using data models
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs
• Experience with data development and reporting tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle BI
• Experience with design, development and support of easy-to-understand data visualizations
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Familiarization with data and query optimization, query profiling, and query performance monitoring tools and techniques.
• Excellent interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills, professionalism, and the ability to communicate complex concepts and requirements to data requesters and consumers

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in computing fields, information sciences, similar field, OR in lieu of degree evidence of 5 years of experience with Business Automation solutions.
• Evidence of 4+ years’ experience developing reports and dashboards using Microsoft Automate and the Microsoft Power Apps Suite of Tools or other similar software.
• Evidence of experience creating reports and dashboards using Industry Standard Tools (Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle BI, Qlik, Salesforce, SAS, SAP)
• Evidence of 3+ years' experience working in a higher education environment at a research-focused university.

Responsibilities

• Serves as technical lead for one or more aspects of the system
• Analyzes requirements and communicates and coordinates with staff and internal stakeholders related to the system and/or project
• Develops, programs, and/or deploys automation workflows for deployment, configuration, and/or monitoring of systems/services
• Manages, maintains, selects, and develops automation tools and infrastructure, including security configurations
• Performs integration, migration, configuration, and security of existing applications and services into automated infrastructures in collaboration with other campus units such as IT, HR, and finance as needed.
• Serves as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders, providing guidance and training to staff

Benefits

• UWM offers a comprehensive benefits package and contributes toward the cost of several benefit plans.
• Employees with a qualifying position also receive an extensive leave package including vacation, sick leave (with no expiration), personal holiday, and paid legal holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level