Senior Power Platform, Power BI & Copilot Governance and Administration Lead

Senior Power Platform, Power BI & Copilot Governance and Administration Lead

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
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This role ensures secure, scalable, and well-managed low-code and AI capabilities across the organization, enabling innovation while maintaining compliance, operational stability, and responsible use. It serves as a strategic leader and subject matter expert, partnering with IT, data teams, business stakeholders, and enterprise governance groups to define policies, manage capacity, support makers and developers, and guide long-term platform planning.

• Define and maintain enterprise governance frameworks for Power Platform, Power BI, and Copilot, including environment strategies, data loss prevention policies, security guardrails, and identity and access models.
• Lead planning and decision making for platform roadmap, organizational adoption, licensing, capacity, and scaling needs.
• Develop governance processes aligned with organizational culture to safely enable maker innovation while ensuring technical and organizational compliance.
• Oversee the creation, deployment, and maintenance of the Center of Excellence toolkit and related monitoring and governance assets.

• Serve as senior administrator for Power Platform environments, Power BI tenant settings, Copilot Studio, and related Microsoft 365 services.
• Manage and monitor environments across development, test, and production tiers, capacity consumption, solution application lifecycle management processes, and access controls.
• Implement and maintain operational processes such as flow lifecycle management, solution classification, environment provisioning, and monitoring of platform health.
• Collaborate with IT security to enforce organizational security, compliance, and data governance controls across environments.

• Provide expert-level support to makers, developers, and business teams, including escalation support for complex issues.
• Lead enablement activities including onboarding programs, training strategy, community guidance, and supporting champion networks.
• Build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, fostering adoption and successful solution delivery across business groups.

• Guide strategic integration of AI and Copilot capabilities into business workflows, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance.
• Evaluate new features, releases, and capabilities across Power Platform, Power BI, and Copilot; lead impact assessments and enterprise rollout plans.
• Support enterprise prioritization of enhancements, modernization efforts, and platform-wide improvements.

• Minimum 5 years of experience administering and governing Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Pages) in a mid-to-large enterprise.
• Deep experience with governance frameworks including data loss prevention policies, environment provisioning, application lifecycle management practices, solution management, role-based access, and monitoring.
• Strong understanding of Power BI administration including tenant-level security, workspace governance, and Fabric administration roles.
• Experience with Copilot Studio administration, AI agent governance, and integration patterns.
• Familiarity with the Center of Excellence Starter Kit, deployment pipelines in Power Platform, and Microsoft governance best-practice models.
• Microsoft certifications in Power Platform, Fabric and Power BI, or Azure administration.
• Experience in data governance, enterprise architecture, or Microsoft 365 platform operations.

• Demonstrated ability to develop governance strategies and drive organizational adoption.
• Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate technical policies into frameworks and guidance easily understood by business users.

This role is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related field, or combination of education and relevant experience.
• A minimum of 5 years application management experience, including management of multiple concurrent projects.
• Experience in working with business users to establish priorities and manage expectations.
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