Microsoft Power Platform Architect

Role: Microsoft Power Platform Architect

Duration: Long term contract Location: Remote Visa: W2 role Hours: 40 hours a week

Primary Responsibilities: Under the direction of the Development and Engineering Lead, Product Manager, Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager, your responsibilities are, to include, but not limited to: • Support the development, deployment and execution of M365 Power Platform services and develop roadmaps and service strategies.

• Engineer, deploy, and provide sustaining engineering support for our customer program.

• Defining data models and overall solution architecture.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to capture business requirements and translate them into robust Power Platform solutions.

• Ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.

• Lead customer workshops to identify pain points and design effective solutions.

• Develop Canvas Apps and Model-Driven Apps that streamline processes and enhance user experiences.

• Implement data integrations using Power Automate and Dataverse.

• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers and project teams.

• Architect scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest Power Platform features and best practices.

• Work closely with other teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment.

• Champion a collaborative culture, sharing knowledge and fostering innovation.

• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of Power Platform solutions.

• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Monitor and troubleshoot issues proactively.

• Assist in the development of concise and accurate engineering documentation on current and proposed cloud environments including Visio Diagrams, As-Built documents, recommendations for solutions, run books, knowledge guides, and other operations guides.

• Work with little or no supervision, provide guidance to the team when necessary, and be able to adapt to changing requirements.

• Participate as required with Agile Scrum sprints and other Agile Ceremonies.

• Stay abreast of current and emerging technologies, regularly analyzing and evaluating their impact and benefit to the customer by providing recommendations to management.

Basic Qualifications: • Requires BS degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Power Apps, including model-driven apps.

• Experience integrating SharePoint data into Power Apps solutions.

• Proficiency with Power BI, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Model-Driven apps and SharePoint API.

• Ability to work on different domain knowledge from one project to another, prototype quickly, iterate, and adapt.

• Strong collaboration skills as part of an agile cross-functional team.

• Ability to design and automate business processes using Power Automate.

• Familiarity with triggers, actions, and connectors.

• Experience integrating Power Automate with other services (e.g., SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Azure).

• Proficiency in creating custom connectors for Power Apps.

• Experience with complex canvas apps, including custom controls, formulas, and component libraries.

• Knowledge of delegation and optimization techniques for large datasets.

• Strong understanding of Power BI data modeling, DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), and Power Query.

• Experience building interactive reports, dashboards, and paginated reports.

• Knowledge of Power BI Service administration and security.

• Understanding of role-based security in Power Platform.

• Experience implementing data loss prevention (DLP) policies.

• Knowledge of compliance standards relevant to Power Platform.

• Familiarity with version control systems for managing Power Platform solutions.

• Experience with solution packaging, deployment, and environment management.

• Awareness of Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) best practices.

• Proficiency with the Set up and configure automated deployment pipelines within Power Platform, democratizing ALM for makers, admins, and developers.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and release management.

• Strong technical writing and presentation skills with ability to effectively communicate with all levels of customer organization (technical resources, management)

• Ability to communicate effectively with all leadership levels

• Ability to resolves complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• • Previous experience working in an agile scrum environment.

• • Previous experience employing DevOps methodologies.

• • Experience with change control principals and ticket with Service Now (SNOW).

• • Understanding of agency Capstone and NARA data retention compliance principles.

• • Experience with design, planning and implementation in environments with 10000+ users.

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