Senior Architect – Microsoft Power Platform, Fabric

Senior Architect – Microsoft Power Platform, Fabric & AI-Powered Analytics (f/m/d)

About the Role

Job ID Location Portugal Lisboa Amadora

• Country: PORTUGAL
• State/Province/County: Porto

Remote vs. Office Hybrid (Remote/Office) Company Siemens Energy Unipessoal Lda. Organization EVP Global Functions Business Unit Digital Core Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Professional / Experienced

A Snapshot of Your Day

This role is structured around four core areas: Platform Strategy & Architecture, Governance & Security, Platform Operations & Service Delivery, and Adoption & Enablement. This framework ensures the end-to-end lifecycle management of the platforms, from high-level design and security to operational excellence and driving business value through user adoption.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Own and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of Microsoft Power Platform services, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI.
• Define and execute the platform strategy, target architecture, standards, and technology roadmap aligned with digitalization, automation, and AI goals.
• Design secure, scalable, and responsible AI-enabled solutions leveraging Copilot, Fabric Data Agents, and AI-assisted analytics.
• Establish and maintain enterprise-wide reference architectures, reusable patterns, and certified semantic models to accelerate delivery.
• Define integration architectures for SAP, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Azure services, APIs, and hybrid data environments.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks for environments, connectors, licensing, security, compliance, data protection, and application lifecycle management.
• Govern Microsoft Fabric capacities, OneLake architecture, workspaces, enterprise reporting standards, and licensing strategies.
• Drive adoption of responsible AI principles, compliance requirements, auditing, traceability, and human oversight.
• Ensure alignment with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, role-based access controls, and other corporate security policies.
• Lead platform operations to ensure availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee application lifecycle management (ALM), DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control, and automated testing.
• Track platform health, adoption, capacity utilization, licensing consumption, and measurable business outcomes.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, managed service providers, and strategic partners like Microsoft.
• Drive enterprise-wide adoption of low-code, analytics, and AI technologies through enablement programs, workshops, and communities of practice.
• Develop and evolve a Power Platform Center of Excellence operating model balancing citizen and professional development.
• Lead the assessment, onboarding, and governance of new Power Platform, Fabric, and AI use cases.
• Mentor architects, developers, analysts, and citizen developers globally to increase platform maturity and innovation capability.
• Advise senior stakeholders on technology decisions, business value, feasibility, risks, and investment priorities.

What You Bring

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years experience as a subject matter expert in designing and governing enterprise-scale low-code, automation, data, analytics, or AI platforms.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Copilot Studio, Managed Environments, and Power Platform Administration.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, including OneLake, lakehouses, warehouses, data pipelines, semantic models, DAX, Power Query, Direct Lake, and enterprise gateways.
• Proven experience designing AI-enabled solutions and analytics platforms grounded in trusted enterprise data.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 Copilot, responsible AI practices, governance frameworks, security, compliance, and value realization.
• Practical experience with enterprise ALM, DevSecOps, CI/CD, environment management, automated testing, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and release management.
• Experience with enterprise integrations, Azure services, APIs, SAP, ServiceNow, and hybrid data landscapes.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to influence senior executives and business leaders.
• Product-oriented mindset with a focus on governance, adoption, operational excellence, user experience, and measurable outcomes.
• University degree in Compute