Power Platform Lead

Primary Responsibilities

• Business Process Automation
• Design, build, and deploy low-code automation solutions using Power Automate, Power Apps, and Copilot Studio.
• Migrate legacy Automation Anywhere bots to Power Platform-based workflows.
• Integrate Power Platform solutions with Teams, Azure services, Dataverse, SharePoint, and external APIs.
• Follow Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) best practices: environment strategy, CI/CD pipelines, solution packaging, and source control.
• Implement governance and security standards including Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Role Based Access Control (RBAC), auditing, and change control.
• Optimize solution performance and reliability via monitoring, logging, and error handling.
• Provide end-user training, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Mentor junior builders and contribute to templates, patterns, and reusable components.
• Establish and maintain repositories and knowledge bases for the storing, organization and sharing of all levels of system documentation.
• Stakeholder and Vendor Management
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure solutions meet business expectations.
• Negotiate trade-offs with business leadership to get work completed within acceptable timelines, risks and resources.
• Cook up and coordinate with third-party vendors for issue resolution, upgrades, and feature deployments.
• Write RFP proposals for the solicitation of new vendor products or contract service support.
• Negotiate priorities and ensure service-level agreements are met.
• Optimizing System & Data Architecture
• Provide advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production support.
• Monitor system performance and ensure enhancements improve efficiency and/or reliability.
• Recommend best practices, process automation, and system governance improvements.
• Work with Solution and Data Architects and Tech Leads to design scalable solutions.
• Risk Assessment & Impact Analysis
• Manage risks, dependencies, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage collaboration and dependencies across multiple efforts impacting the same systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or equivalent.
• 10+ experience delivering enterprise-grade business process/robotic process automation solutions.
• Deep experience in Power Automate (cloud/RPA), Power Apps (canvas/model-driven), Copilot Studio.
• Experience building agentic solutions via Copilot Studio or Azure OpenAI.
• Experience in "vibe-coding" platforms like GitHub Copilot, Replit, etc.
• Strong integration skills with Azure Functions, APIs, SQL/Dataverse, SharePoint, Teams.
• Understanding of ALM, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines (GitHub, Azure DevOps).
• Experience integrating with external cloud platforms like Box and Salesforce
• Solid grasp of governance, security, and compliance in a Microsoft ecosystem.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and problem-solving.
• Pro-code experience strongly preferred but low-code citizen development experience also valuable.
• (Senior) Pro-code development experience (e.g., C#, JavaScript, Python) strongly preferred for building custom connectors, extending Power Platform capabilities, and handling complex integrations.
• (Senior) Ability to lead architecture, solution design, and mentor team members.
• Experience in financial services preferred.

Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate required.
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert preffered.
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate preferred.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) required.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) preferred.
• Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional (nice-to-have for migration work) preferred.