Senior Power Platform Engineer

Warren, NJ, United States (On-site)

Contract (6 months 15 days)

Published 22 hours ago

ALM

technical documentation

Monitoring & Observability

CI/CD

microsoft power platform

Microsoft 365

dataverse

Power Apps

We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Power Platform Engineer to administer, secure, govern, and enhance enterprise Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio. This role owns platform operations, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), automation, and agent lifecycle controls, partnering with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Microsoft 365, and business teams to enable reliable services and responsible innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

Power Platform Administration & Operations:

Administer Power Platform Admin Center; manage environment provisioning, groups, lifecycle, security, Dataverse, connectors, and gateways across Development, Test/UAT, and Production.

Monitor service health, performance, failures, usage, and capacity; assess Microsoft releases and maintain operational standards, runbooks, and support documentation.

Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting across apps, flows, Power Fx, Dataverse, authentication, APIs, and connectivity; coordinate complex incidents with Microsoft Support.

Governance & Security:

Implement DLP policies, connector classifications, environment controls, and least-privilege access in partnership with Security, Risk, Privacy, Compliance, and Architecture.

Maintain resource inventory and ownership; identify and remediate orphaned, inactive, high-risk, or non-compliant apps, flows, connections, environments, and agents.

Establish citizen-development and production standards, including governance of standard, premium, custom, and third-party connectors, auditing, and enterprise data access.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM):

Engineer controlled Development → Test/UAT → Production releases using Power Platform Pipelines and approved CI/CD tooling; prevent unapproved direct production changes.

Manage solution packaging, managed/unmanaged solution standards, dependencies, environment variables, connection references, and deployment configurations.

Implement source control, versioning, automated validation and testing, release approvals, rollback, migration, and change-management practices.

Administer Copilot Studio and agent development, testing, promotion, publication, sharing, and retirement across approved enterprise channels.

Govern agent tools and toolkits, knowledge sources, topics, actions, APIs, connectors, and flows; validate authentication, permissions, and least-privilege data access.

Monitor agent performance, failures, usage, and capacity; partner with AI Governance and Security on responsible AI, data protection, auditing, and lifecycle controls.

Review Canvas and model-driven apps, cloud flows, and integrations for security, scalability, supportability, and performance; develop reusable patterns and components.

Automate administration, compliance checks, ownership changes, and cleanup using Power Shell, PAC CLI, Power Platform APIs, Microsoft Graph, and Azure Dev Ops.

Maintain logging, alerts, and dashboards; forecast Dataverse database, file, and log capacity and licensing needs, including premium connectors and AI consumption.

Mentor makers, developers, and support teams; document standards and provide architecture guidance for integrations with enterprise systems, REST APIs, and Azure services.

Required Qualifications:

7+ years in enterprise technology, application/cloud engineering, or platform administration, including 4+ years of hands‑on Microsoft Power Platform experience.

Strong enterprise administration experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Platform Admin Center, environments, DLP, and connector governance.

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