Senior Power Platform Developer

Summary of role

Own the architecture and delivery of complex, secure, and scalable Power Platform solutions. Lead technical direction, mentor others, and drive platform governance and ALM maturity.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architecture and integration patterns (custom connectors/APIM/Azure).
• Lead ALM and CI/CD strategy; enforce quality gates and environment strategy.
• Establish governance (DLP, security, telemetry) and contribute to CoE practice.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and cost; implement observability and SLOs.
• Coach developers, run design reviews, and champion reusability (libraries/templates).
• Engage with business leadership; translate strategic needs into technical roadmaps.

Architecture and Leadership

• Define solution architecture: environment strategy, ALM, security model, data strategy, and integration patterns.

• Lead end-to-end delivery: discovery, estimation, roadmap, release planning, and stakeholder communication.

• Govern reusability: component libraries, templates, connection references, pipelines, and conventions.

• Implement complex integrations (custom connectors, SAP/DocuSign/SharePoint integration).

• Optimize performance and scalability (delegation strategy, data partitioning, async patterns, concurrency).

Platform and Governance

• Establish and evolve Center of Excellence (CoE) practices (admin connectors, inventory, app health).

• Set DLP, environment, and security standards, partner with InfoSec and compliance.

• Oversee ALM with Power Platform Pipelines or Azure DevOps; enforce PR checks, automated tests, and approvals.

People and Stakeholder Management

• Mentor developers; run code walkthroughs and guilds; conduct technical interviews.

• Facilitate workshops, translate business problems into productized platform solutions.

• Measure ROI/impact; influence leadership with data-driven platform metrics.

Skills

• Complex apps, PCF usage/oversight, form logic, performance tuning, accessibility standards.
• Enterprise-grade orchestration, retry patterns, webhook/queue designs, governance.
• Advanced data design, plugins/virtual tables, cascading, retention, archiving.
• Design ALM strategy, multi-branch, deployment gates, test automation, Power Platform Pipelines/Azure DevOps.
• Custom connectors, APIM, SAP, DocuSign; secure secrets management.
• Define reporting patterns, dataflows, semantic models, governance with lineage
• Least-privilege architecture, conditional access implications, data residency, auditability.
• Establish CoE processes, platform telemetry, lifecycle metrics, and training programs.
• Test strategy (unit/integration/perf), automated tests where applicable.
• Architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, support models, and knowledge base design.

Qualifications

• Matric and a tertiary qualification
• 8+ years in Power Platform/M365/Azure solution delivery; proven large-scale implementations.
• Deep Dataverse, Power Apps, Power Automate; custom connectors; integration patterns.
• Experience with Power Platform Pipelines or Azure DevOps; environment design
• Exposure to PCF (build or oversee), plugin/event framework (nice to have)

Certifications

• Certifications: PL-400 and PL-600 preferred; Azure certs

• AI-102 (if Copilot/AI integration is in scope