Power Platform Solution Architect

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

At Gowling WLG, our commitment to excellence begins with our people. As an international law firm with offices in Canada, the U.K., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, we’re proud to recruit and retain top talent who bring energy, insight, and a singular focus on delivering exceptional experiences – for our clients and each other.

We’re intentional about building a workplace that’s both high-performing and supportive, ensuring that everyone is empowered to do their best work and reach their full potential. Our culture is grounded in our shared values:
Raise the Bar, Embrace Differences, and Thrive Together. These values shape how we collaborate, lead, and succeed – across teams, time zones, and career paths.

Whether you’re pursuing a role in law or business services, explore what’s possible and make your mark with Gowling WLG.

We are seeking an experienced Power Platform Solution Architect with hands‑on development experience to join our team. In this role, you will architect, design, build, deploy and enhance solutions on Microsoft Power Platform to streamline business processes and deliver engaging user experiences. You will use Power Platform to develop both canvas and model‑driven apps, implement power automate flows for business process automation, build copilot agents from scratch or use pre‑built ones, and integrate with internal and external APIs, including Microsoft Graph.

In addition, you will provide guidance on platform administration ensuring environments, security, and governance align with best practices.

Your focus will be primarily on the business processes and technologies used by our Intellectual Property (IP) department. OurIP department helps clients to: protect ideas, brands, and creations (patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets); manageIP portfolios over time (renewals, global filings); monetize IP (licensing, transactions, M&A support); enforce rights (disputes, litigation).

This position can be based in our Toronto or Ottawa office.

• Responsible for the architectural design, development and deployment of IP technology solutions,
• Design, develop, and implement solutions that improve efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify and clarify challenges or opportunities to be addressed, determine requirements, map potential solutions, and establish the path to move forward.
• Analyze, create and implement solutions to enhance the IP support business processes, workflows, communication and opportunities for the integration with other firm systems with a critical eye on continuous improvement.
• Investigate, make recommendations and oversee the implementation of new and/or emerging technologies that will automate and streamline existing IP support processes and create efficiencies.
• Use your skills and experience to provide solutions that leverage the best possible way Power Platform modules and technologies.
• Oversee and implement changes to IP systems and automated processes relating to IP legislative changes.

• Design and build canvas apps for user-friendly, task-oriented scenarios.
• Develop model‑driven apps leveraging Dataverse, custom tables, views, forms, and business process flows.
• Build agents from scratch or use pre‑built ones, and publish them to various channels like Teams, websites, or mobile apps.

• Build and optimize Power Automate flows (cloud and desktop) for approvals, notifications, integrations, and complex workflows.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve automation performance and reliability.

• Connect Power Platform solutions to internal systems, third‑party APIs, and services.
• Develop flows and apps using Microsoft Graph API for Microsoft 365 integration (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.).
• Implement custom connectors where needed.
• Partner with business stakeholders to capture requirements and translate them into scalable solutions.
• Document solutions, processes, and technical decisions for support and reusability.

• Experience in solutioning business problems using Power Platform.
• 4–6+ years of experience in…