Power Platform Engineer

About the role

About Mind MovesMind Moves is a women-owned Washington, D.C.-based firm helping businesses and governments to embrace, build and deploy 'human in the loop' AI solutions to elevate mission and value. We are pioneers with deep expertise in the field of machine learning and AI (both predictive and generative). We have delivered responsibly developed products and services that impact millions of users worldwide, while generating millions of dollars in revenue. We have worked with Fortune 500 corporations and large government entities in health care, supply chain management, financial services and life sciences. We apply a structured methodology and holistic approach to AI transformation and a broad spectrum of technical services centered in the harnessing of people, science and technology.

Responsibilities

• Helping cross-functional teams at the National Institutes of Health turn ideas into working Microsoft-based solutions, quickly.
• Translating user stories from non-technical NIH teams into clear technical requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Rapidly building working prototypes in Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio to validate use cases and accelerate stakeholder buy-in.
• Handing off validated prototypes with documented requirements, business logic, and known limitations to the team responsible for production deployment and ongoing support.
• Assembling creative builds across Microsoft connectors, custom connectors, and data pipelines, including SharePoint, Teams, and M365 Copilot.
• Determining business logic with the people who will actually use the tool, and documenting the decisions behind it.
• Finding ways to add value beyond what was asked for, such as automation, reporting, or smarter routing, without overbuilding.
• Implementing safety guardrails in agentic workflows, including human-in-the-loop approvals, scoped data access, and clear escalation paths.
• Delivering short 'knowledge sessions' so teams understand what was built and can keep using and extending it.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams across federal agencies and supporting partners.

Requirements

• Hands-on Copilot Studio experience building agents, connecting them to organizational data, and implementing approvals, scoped data access, and failure handling.
• Deep, hands-on Microsoft Power Platform experience: Power Apps (canvas and model-driven), Power Automate cloud flows, and Dataverse.
• Strong command of connectors: standard, premium, and custom connectors, plus HTTP and API integration when a connector doesn't exist.
• Solution lifecycle management in Power Platform: environments, solutions, source control, and moving builds from dev to production.
• Demonstrated rapid prototyping: comfortable going from a rough idea to a working demo in days, and clear about what to cut to get there.
• US-based required.
• Microsoft 365 ecosystem (highly desired): SharePoint (lists, libraries, permissions, and as a data layer for Power Platform apps), Microsoft Teams (apps, bots, and workflows built into Teams), Microsoft 365 Copilot experience, including extending it with agents.

Qualifications

• Translating user stories into