Application Administrator

Work Location: Open to Montana & South Dakota major office locations

Pay range: $76,400 to $116,000 per year

Employment Status: Regular Full-time

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About this position:

The Application Administrator operates within a dynamic, fast‑paced team, delivering high‑quality administration and support for Northwestern Energy's mission‑critical technology systems. This role requires innovative thinking, strong analytical skills, and solid business insight. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment while designing, installing, configuring, and maintaining complex application ecosystems. The work performed in this role is highly rewarding and plays a vital part in supporting the success of the Northwestern Energy enterprise.

We offer great benefits:

NorthWestern Energy is a fully regulated electric and natural gas utility serving Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. We employ over 1,600 amazing people and serve over 800,000 customers who are our neighbors in our communities. We are a top employer and offer competitive benefits, including:

• 401K with company match up to 4% and non-elective contribution up to 7%
• Healthcare and wellbeing programs, including dental and vision for you, your spouse and dependents, Health Savings Account (HSA), healthcare and dependent care flexible spending account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Programs (Offering up to six free counseling sessions, per person, per issue, per year for employees, spouses and dependents to include financial heath)
• Life Insurance (Company pays basic employee policy; spouse, dependent insurance also available)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive pay (Scheduled performance-based wage increases and annual incentive opportunities.)
• Paid company endorsed volunteer opportunities
• Paid parental leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid training opportunities
• Paid time off starting on your first day, plus 11 paid holidays

Benefits may vary by position or as negotiated as part of a collective bargaining agreement.

About this job:

• Partner with stakeholders to identify problems and develop requirements for solutions
• Administer, maintain, and optimize business systems throughout their lifecycle.
• Perform application implementations, upgrades, patches, and deployments in collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum reliability.
• Effectively and efficiently organize, plan, execute and coordinate multiple work assignments to meet project milestones or established completion dates
• Develop, maintain, and optimize PowerShell scripts to automate application administration, monitoring, and maintenance workflows.
• Implement process efficiencies to reduce manual tasks and improve system reliability.
• Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with organizational and industry security standards.
• Collaborate with development, security, operations technology and infrastructure teams to support ongoing projects and application needs.
• Maintain detailed documentation for system configurations, processes, troubleshooting procedures, and architecture.
• Some travel (up to 15% of time) and extended hours may be required
• All NorthWestern Energy employees are required to adhere to company safety standards and the Code of Business Conduct & Ethics
• Ensure all actions are consistent with NorthWestern Energy's values, mission, and strategic business objectives.
• Demonstrates adherence to company safety and security standards

Am I right for this job? Here's the success profile:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year accredited college with some related experience preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• Understanding of concepts and techniques related to application administration, application support, automation and integration.
• Understanding of network, security architecture and virtual architecture, including virtual delivery of applications
• Must be able to work in a team environment and adapt to changing responsibilities and priorities
• Experience with:
  • Application implementations and upgrades
  • Application administration and automation
  • PowerShell
  • SSL/TLS bindings; certificate management
  • IIS / .NET administration
  • Windows server administration
  • Application monitoring and performance
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership; driving a project from inception to completion
• Affinity for solving problems and diving deep into the details
• Strong written/oral communication and documentation skills
• Knowledge of DevOps fundamentals
• Enterprise Service Bus middleware administration, Linux system administration, PI Data Historian and ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise/ArcGIS Online experience a plus

Requisition #4937

Posting Dates: February 16, 2026 through March 2, 2026

Department/Division: Business Technology

Employment Physical: Not Required

Drug Test: Required

Background Check: Required

Relocation Benefit: Negotiable

Telecommuting: Part-time Negotiable within NorthWestern Energy Service Territory

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other protected class in accordance with applicable federal or state laws and statutes. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act, should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process, please contact the Human Resources department at 1-800-245-6977 or at .