Technical Specialist
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Job Location:
Wellington - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
$ 117734 - 146513
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time
Location: Wellington
Business Group: Digital Services and Solutions
Branch: Digital Services
Salary:$117734 - $146513
We are seeking a skilled Technical Specialist to take technical ownership of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps Power Automate Power Pages Dynamics and Copilot Studio) across our this role youll be responsible for maturing and maintaining the technical foundations that enables safe scalable and efficient use of the platform. Youll continute to the technical strategy standards best practices governance and operational excellence of our Power Platform capabilities working closely with developers and business stakeholders across the organisation and maintaining our strategic partnership with Microsoft.
This is a technical leadership role that requires both deep technical expertise and the ability to influence and guide teams towards best practices in modern low-code application development and automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders and leaders and provide advice on the technical feasibility of new initiatives
- Contribute to the Power Platform technology roadmap and the strategic direction
- Governance frameworks including environment strategies data loss prevention policies and security controls
- Build and maintain the strategic relationship with Microsoft as our technology partner staying current with platform updates
- Architecture standards design patterns and technical best practices aligned with Microsofts Well-Architected Framework
- Application lifecycle management practices including pipelines deployment automation and CI/CD using Power Platform Pipelines or Azure DevOps
- Monitor and optimise Power Platform licensing and capacity consumption providing recommendations on resource allocation and cost management
- Monitoring observability and support practices using Application Insights and Power Platform admin centre capabilities
- Plan and coordinate platform updates feature rollouts and tenant-level changes with minimal disruption
- Collaborate with Information Security and Compliance teams to ensure solutions meet organisational cybersecurity objectives and regulatory requirements
- Technical leadership and mentoring for citizen developers and low code developers on Power Platform capabilities and best practices
- Ensure quality of software produced via Solution design reviews and contributing to developer peer reviews
What Youll Bring
- 5 years experience in enterprise application development with at least 3 years focused on Power Platform
- Deep knowledge of Power Platform architecture and capabilities across all products
- Experience with Power Platform governance including environment strategies data loss prevention policies security controls
- Knowledge of Power Platform licensing models capacity planning and consumption monitoring
- Experience with monitoring and observability
- Understanding of integration patterns including custom connectors data gateways Azure API Management and REST/OData APIs
- Knowledge of security patterns including Azure Active Directory/Entra ID role-based security and Conditional Access
- New Zealand citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain confidential security clearance
- Tertiary qualification in Information Technology Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication skills with ability to translate communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience with ability to mentor teams and drive platform adoption
- Proficiency with artificial intelligence capabilities within Power Platform (Copilot AI Builder)
What We Offer
- A collaborative environment with opportunities to develop your skills in Azure Dynamics 365 Power Platform /Cloud engineering
- Focus on continuous learning and professional development
- Strong emphasis on work-life balance and employee wellbeing
- A workplace where all employees have equal access to opportunities
Applications close:5pm 4 November 2025.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Dhcp
- SQL
- Active Directory
- VOIP
- VMware
- Customer Service
- Windows
- Trouble Shooting
- Java
- VPN
- Sharepiont
- hardware
- Dns
- Technical Support
- Software Applications
About Company
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