Principal IT Technologist - Part Time

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and process owners to evaluate workflows and identify automation opportunities.
• Create production-ready automations for tasks such as intake routing, approvals, notifications, tracking, reporting, and exception handling.
• Integrate Power Automate solutions with Microsoft 365 tools and related platforms like SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Excel, Forms, Power Apps, and Dataverse.
• Develop secure, scalable automations that align with technology governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and access-control standards.
• Create documentation, process maps, test scripts, support materials, and training resources for deployed solutions.
• Troubleshoot flow failures, connector limitations, permissions issues, and data quality challenges.
• Track and communicate automation results such as time savings, reduced errors, improved adoption, and operational efficiency.
• Help shape an automation roadmap and reusable patterns that can be expanded across teams and programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• At least 7 years of substantial, hands-on experience designing and deploying Microsoft Power Automate solutions in a production enterprise setting.
• Strong expertise in Power Automate cloud flows, approvals, workflow orchestration, expressions, data operations, connectors, and error handling.
• Experience building complex, multi-step automations that connect multiple systems, approval paths, users, and exception scenarios.
• Experience integrating Power Automate with SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Excel, Forms, Power Apps, and Dataverse.
• Experience working with REST APIs, HTTP actions, authentication methods, and custom or premium connectors.
• Knowledge of environment management, solution packaging, connection references, monitoring, deployment, and application lifecycle management within the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Ability to independently diagnose and resolve difficult automation and performance issues.
• Solid understanding of data security, role-based access, least-privilege principles, auditability, and enterprise controls.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while working approximately 20 hours per week.

Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least 7 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Substantial, hands-on experience designing and deploying Microsoft Power Automate solutions in a production enterprise setting.
• Expertise in Power Automate cloud flows, approvals, workflow orchestration, expressions, data operations, connectors, and error handling.
• Experience building complex, multi-step automations that connect multiple systems, approval paths, users, and exception scenarios.
• Experience integrating Power Automate with SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Excel, Forms, Power Apps, and Dataverse.
• Experience working with REST APIs, HTTP actions, authentication methods, and custom or premium connectors.
• Knowledge of environment management, solution packaging, connection references, monitoring, deployment, and application lifecycle management within the Microsoft Power Platform.
• Ability to independently diagnose and resolve difficult automation and performance issues.
• Solid understanding of data security, role-based access, least-privilege principles, auditability, and enterprise controls.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while working approximately 20 hours per week.