My customer is searching the market for a Microsoft Power Platform Architect to work remotely for a period of 6 months with an option of an extension thereafter.

• Job Title: Microsoft Power Platform Architect
• Location: London - Hybrid x2/3 days per week
• Duration: 6 months + Extension
• Inside IR35

Qualifications and experience

The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:

• Relevant Intermediate and Advanced Microsoft Certifications for Microsoft Azure and Power Platform including MB-600 Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 + Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
• 5+ years' experience with Common Data Model including Plug-ins development, Security model (Roles, Business Units, Field Level, etc...), Business rules, Web API, SDK Libraries/Tools, C#.NET development, Integrations via service endpoints, and Automated Testing (Unit/Integration)
• 5+ years' experience with Model Driven Apps including Configurations and customizations, Business processes and rules, Forms/views/dashboards, Web resource development, JavaScript development
• 3+ years' experience with Canvas Apps including Building pages/navigation/formulas, using connectors, Using flows
• 3+ years' experience with Flow (Power Automate) including using triggers and actions, Best practices and limitations
• 3+ years' experience with Power BI including Building reports using Power BI, Publishing and sharing reports, Using data from CDS via connector & SQL
• 3+ years' experience with Azure including building Azure functions to extend CDS, Using Service Bus to extend CDS, Knowledge of Key vault and service principals
• 5+ years' experience with Dynamics/Power Platform Admin including Environment management, security groups, and DLP management
• 3+ years' experience with DevOps/ALM including PowerShell, Power Platform ALM Tools, Creation of Azure DevOps pipelines
• Knowledge of Git
• Knowledge of quality/security tools (Power Apps checker, SonarQube, CheckMarx, Nexus)
• 1+ years' experience with CoE Toolkit including understanding of CoE Toolkit components, experience in extending and customizing CoE Toolkit
• 3+ years' experience working in an agile management project, with knowledge of key agile concepts and ceremonies, and ability to apply agile concepts in day to day activities
• 3+ years' experience of working in financial services or another highly regulated environment, knowledge of applying security throughout development life cycle, knowledge of change controls processes, experience in managing risk and implementing controls, and experience of delivering complex enterprise systems across multiple regions
• 3+ years' experience of working in CoE type environment in designing and building re-usable and scalable components
• Must have at least 5 years' extensive experience with designing complex implementations on the Power Platform/Dynamics 365
• Must have at least 5 years' hands-on experience in implementation of projects on the Power Platform Industry recognised Azure cloud certifications
• Experience in defining best practices and standards
• Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)
• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company with exposure working within/for Financial Services
• Strong networking knowledge
• A strong understanding of Identity and Access management principles and tools
• An understanding of role based access controls and organisational hierarchies
• Experience in working in a global cross functional service management team
• Experience in dealing with multiple support groups that contribute to creating a service
• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams
• Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment with Stakeholders to deliver the service.
• Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security, risk and regulatory standards
• A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences