Microsoft Power Governance & Administration Specialist

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC•Minneapolis, MN

4d•$110,000 - $147,000

About The Position

Support complex enterprise architectures by developing and implementing detailed design, configuration and engineering strategies/solutions for one or more technologies within assigned technical area of expertise. Ensure capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives are met or exceeded for a variety of small to mid-size projects. In collaboration with the team and vendor/contractor resources, ensure viable designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.

Requirements

Power Platform Expertise: Proven hands-on experience building enterprise solutions with Microsoft Power Platform – developing apps with Power Apps, automating workflows with Power Automate, creating analytics with Power BI, and managing data using Dataverse.
Governance & Compliance: Demonstrated ability to implement Power Platform governance – e.g. manage and maintain multiple environments, define and enforce data policies (DLP), configure security roles/permissions, oversee solution lifecycle management (ALM), and ensure all solutions adhere to enterprise security and compliance standards.
Technical Leadership & Soft Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a high aptitude for quickly understanding complex environments. Excellent communication abilities to articulate technical concepts across organizational levels, and proven leadership in mentoring teams and driving innovation.

Responsibilities

Independently perform moderately difficult assignments in the design, detailed configuration, integration and support of existing and future technologies within assigned technical area of expertise.
Pan, design, review and approve robust, stable, scalable and manageable designs.
Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution and provide ongoing life-cycle support for technology deployments and upgrades.
Create and maintain documentation of detailed design documents, diagrams, engineering specifications, build changes, models, troubleshooting and support guides, systems metrics, and overall project information (including key deliverables).
Responsible for the technical correctness and completeness of engineering designs and artifacts.
Ensure that build activities are completed per engineering diagrams that were drafted and approved for the project.
Redirect build activities as needed.
Manage effective relationships and work in partnership with leadership, team members, vendors, and contractors to deliver robust technical solutions ensuring service level commitments and project time lines are maintained.
Provide technical expertise, direction and prioritization of work to team members ensuring successful project implementation and outstanding service delivery.
Mentor, coach and contribute to the development of peers and other team members as appropriate.
Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.
Utilize performance data and historical metrics to effectively: plan for growth needs; plan upgrades, migrations, optimizations and new implementations; identify and resolve efficiency issues; and improve overall functionality.
Manage hand-over of design solutions and provide multi-faceted testing support and validation prior to the final release of new and upgraded technologies.
Recommend, deploy and document design strategies and solutions for software/hardware/network engineering problems, based upon comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of business goals, objectives, requirements and existing technologies.
Independently identify key issues, patterns and deviations.
Recommend robust solutions utilizing pragmatic judgment, creativity, and in-depth technical knowledge and evaluation to comprehensively meet the needs of the business.
Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.
Promote reuse and develop consistent technical build, implementation and support processes.
Validate -- and adhere to -- defined standards.
Ensure ongoing improvements align with existing process and service management principles and Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.
Effectively present the value proposition of business-appropriate emerging technologies to technology leadership.