Senior Technical Solutions Architect

Role Description

You have an opportunity to use your creativity, thoughtfulness, and subject matter expertise to help our customers explore and adopt productivity solutions that enable secure collaboration and foster meaningful interactions.

The Power Platform Solutions Architect is a Technical PreSales role responsible for articulating what is possible for our customers to transform their business. Working alongside a team of sales professionals at Softchoice, you play a vital role in architecting Power Platform solutions to enable a modern workplace for our customers. As an ambassador of the Softchoice brand, you will represent our value as one of North America's top solutions providers by unlocking our customers' potential to be future-ready right now through the use of technology.

We want to provide you with the canvas to display your ideas and proven successes and help make a difference for our customers.

What you'll do:

• This is a technical presales role supporting both our sales and solution architecture teams.
• Lead the presales and design of cloud platform solutions for our customers.
• Collaborate with IT leadership to ensure the success of strategic IT initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to our current and future customers, providing technical expertise and recommendations to solve IT challenges.
• Strong client-facing communication skills.
• Ability to draft customer facing statements of work (SOW).
• Architect end-to-end solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages, AI builder, Dataverse and Copilot Studio.
• Well-versed in Power Platform COE to support and guide customers.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure, and performant Power Platform solutions.
• Integrate Power Platform solutions with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Azure, Dynamics 365, and third-party services.
• Support data modeling, performance tuning, and troubleshooting for existing and new apps.
• Provide technical leadership and guide solution architects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and present solution concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Must be able to travel between US and Canada (under 15%).

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge and technical experience developing and architecting Power Platform solutions.
• Expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps (Model Driven and Canvas), Microsoft Dataverse, Power Automate (Cloud and Desktop RPA), Power Pages, AI Builder and Power Platform COE.
• Experience building technical solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI, Power Fx etc.).
• Technical expertise in solution deployment strategies, Power Platform Pipelines, Azure DevOps – CD-CI, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Dataverse plug-ins.
• Proven success in distilling technical concepts into easy-to-understand language for unfamiliar audiences.
• Robust critical thinking skills with a mindset for understanding both the big picture and the small details.
• Aptitude and passion for learning new technologies and sharing that knowledge with teammates.
• 5 years’ work experience with increasing responsibility in technical environments.

Requirements

• Technical certifications related to Microsoft Power Platform.
• Strong knowledge of Power Automate (Cloud Flows, Desktop) and Power BI.
• Experience with Copilot Studio.
• Experience in MS Teams SDK framework.
• Bonus: Knowledge of MS Syntax.
• Bonus: Familiarity and/or knowledge of Microsoft Copilot Studio and integrations with Power Platform, Graph/3rd party connector.

Benefits

• Health and Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, and Vision Care, Flexible Spending Account, Employee Assistance Program.
• Financial Benefits: 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance.
• Paid Time Off: PTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year), Holidays, Parental Leave, Volunteer Days, Bereavement Leave.
• Additional Perks: Employee Discount Program.