"Automation Solutions Engineer/ Power Platform Developer"

Job Details

Automation Solutions Engineer/ Power Platform Developer
Milwaukee, WI
Full Time
JR10006732

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Position Title:
Automation Solutions Engineer/ Power Platform Developer

Job Category:
Academic Staff

Employment Type:
Regular

Job Profile:
DevOps Engineer III (Inst)

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
• Job 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

Competencies: (Any applicant selected for interview should be prepared to discuss)

• 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:

• Demonstrated experience developing solutions using the Power Apps and Power Automate
• 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.
• Experience with Azure DevOps 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

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Serves as technical lead for one or more aspects of the system
• 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
• 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
• Serves as a subject matter expert to internal stakeholders, providing guidance and training to staff

Compensation:

The target hiring range is $88,900-$109,650. Final salary offer is contingent upon skills, knowledge, and abilities as demonstrated throughout the selection process.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Education:

Bachelor's degree required in computing or related fields.

Graduate or hire degree preferred in computing fields, information sciences, similar field

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are required to apply online and provide the following at time of application:

• Cover Letter addressing each of the required and preferred qualifications
• Resume

In instances where the Search and Screen Committee is unable to ascertain from a candidate's application materials whether they meet any of the qualifications, they will be evaluated as not meeting such qualifications.

Finalist candidate(s) being considered for hire will be required to provide three professional/supervisor references through an external reference checking tool. References will not be contacted prior to candidates being notified.

Apply electronically by the application deadline date of Sunday, March 8, 2026. Questions about this position should be directed to Coua Xiong at xion2447@uwm.edu.