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POSITION OVERVIEW
The Solutions Architect II designs, builds, and delivers scalable, data-driven solutions that enable business insight, automation, and operational efficiency. This role blends solution architecture, Microsoft Power Platform development, business intelligence, and data engineering to translate complex business requirements into secure, performant, and maintainable technical solutions.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design end-to-end solution architectures that integrate data pipelines, analytics, automation, and application layers.
- Develop and optimize Microsoft Power Platform application and AI solutions, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.
- Build and maintain robust data pipelines and transformations to support analytics, reporting, and operational use cases.
- Design semantic models and dashboards that deliver accurate, actionable insights for business stakeholders.
- Partner with business, IT, and data stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical designs and implementation plans.
- Ensure solutions adhere to architectural standards, security requirements, data governance policies, and performance best practices.
- Lead technical design reviews and provide guidance on solution scalability, maintainability, and integration patterns.
- Support data quality, monitoring, and troubleshooting across analytics and data platforms.
- Document solution designs, data models, and technical standards to support long-term sustainability.
- Other duties as assigned.
HOW YOU’LL DO IT
- Attention to detail - Ensuring information is complete and accurate; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
- Problem Solving - Defining a problem, determining the cause, identifying, prioritizing and selecting alternatives for a solution, and implementing a solution.
- Analytical Thinking - Tackling a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
- Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning experiences.
- Knowledge Development - Continuously develop knowledge of software applications/tools to support Gentex business processes and culture.
- Champion change - Understanding the need for change and helps planning for and accommodating it as creatively and positively as possible.
- Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
- Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
WHAT TO BRING
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience across solution architecture, analytics, and data engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate).
- Experience with LLM techniques including prompting and RAG pipelines.
- Experience with data platforms (Oracle, Snowflake).
- Strong experience designing and building data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and analytics solutions.
- High proficiency with SQL and data transformation techniques.
- Experience translating business requirements into technical architectures and deliverables.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
WHAT WILL HELP
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms and data warehouses.
- Experience in application development or application design.
- Background in BI modeling (star schema, semantic layers, performance optimization).
- Familiarity with data governance, security, and access control best practices.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale reporting and analytics environments.
- Microsoft or analytics-related certifications.
Gentex is an equal opportunity employer
Gentex extends equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), disability, marital status, military service, height, weight, genetic information, or any other reason protected by law.
Assistance
Gentex is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at recruiting@gentex.com. Gentex will not discriminate against any qualified individual who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
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