Sr Solutions Architect

About NAES

At NAES, you’ll find engaging and challenging career opportunities across conventional power generation, renewable energy, energy storage, grid operations and complex industrial facilities. At every level of the company, our people share a common goal: to instill confidence in our clients through a steadfast commitment to safety, integrity, and the quality of our work.

NAES is the largest independent operator of power facilities in the industry, managing more than 400 facilities and over 60 GW of generation under contract across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the UK. Powered by a team of roughly 4,000 people, we now support the full life cycle of energy and industrial plants — from development and construction through operations, optimization, digital transformation and decommissioning — giving our employees the opportunity to grow their careers while helping to modernize the critical infrastructure that keeps communities running.

Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of enterprise business application solutions across Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain, Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Power Platform, analytics, and related Microsoft technologies to support long-term business strategy, operational efficiency, and scalable digital transformation.

• Lead solution architecture and design for Dynamics 365 and related Microsoft business applications, ensuring alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term platform roadmaps.
• Partner with business stakeholders, functional leads, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into scalable end-to-end solutions across Dynamics 365 F&SC, CE, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and adjacent enterprise systems.
• Define and review application, data, security, and integration architectures, including approaches for Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate, APIs, middleware, reporting, and interoperability with ERP and other line-of-business platforms.
• Provide hands‑on architectural leadership, technical guidance, and mentoring to project teams, supporting solution quality, design consistency, environment strategy, release planning, and adoption of Microsoft best practices.
• Ensure proposed solutions are supportable, secure, compliant, and cost‑effective, while balancing business value, implementation timelines, licensing considerations, and operational sustainability.
• Present architecture options, solution recommendations, and implementation tradeoffs to business and technology leaders, building alignment on design decisions, priorities, risks, and dependencies.
• Contribute to governance, standards, reusable design patterns, and architectural documentation for the Microsoft solutions landscape, including finance, CRM, customer service, sales, case management, automation, and analytics capabilities.

Work closely with business leaders, product owners, ERP and CRM functional teams, developers, infrastructure and security teams, data and reporting teams, vendors, and executive stakeholders to define and deliver Microsoft business application solutions that meet operational, financial, customer, and transformation objectives. Provides architectural leadership across cross‑functional initiatives and reports to the Director, Digital Transformation.

The initial compensation will range from $152,200 to $175,100 depending on experience.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, business, engineering, or related field from an accredited college or university recognized by the United States Department of Education or equivalent. Relevant work experience may be substituted for education on a year‑for‑year basis.
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  • Seven years of progressive experience in solution architecture, enterprise applications, or business systems design, including significant experience with Microsoft business application platforms.
  • Experience serving as a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, Functional Architect, or similar senior role supporting ERP, CRM, and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Experience translating business…