Power Platform Architect

ONLY submit candidates who are willing to attend one ONSITE interview in Trenton NJ
10 years in IT with experience in developing and maintaining custom business applications-Define and implement Power Platform architecture and strategy including model-driven apps (MDA) canvas apps Power Pages Power BI and Power Automate workflows

Job Description

The Power Platform Architect will design and implement secure scalable solutions on Microsoft Power Platform emphasizing model-driven apps integration infrastructure and hands-on C# development-while establishing governance ALM and CI/CD best practices.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Power Platform Architect to join our IT team. This position will be full-time hybrid and is a long -term contract position.

What Youll Do

• Define and implement Power Platform architecture and strategy including model-driven apps (MDA) canvas apps Power Pages Power BI and Power Automate workflows

• Enhance an existing Power Platform based grant management/financial tracking system and migrate it into a new scalable environment

• Build advanced dashboards automated notifications and reporting assets that provide 24 7 visibility to agency leadership

• Modernize and refactor legacy Power Platform components for improved performance maintainability and scalability

• Enhance and manage Power Pages/portal capabilities including authentication security and external data access

• Establish solutioning patterns reference architectures and reusable components aligned with client priorities

• Drive API-first integration using Dataverse Azure services (Functions Logic Apps API Management) and external systems

• Implement and enforce governance security and compliance standards (environment strategy DLP policies RBAC conditional access)

• Create governance artifacts and lead architecture reviews

• Own ALM and DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines automated deployments and code quality/security scanning

• Oversee release management versioning rollback strategies and production cutovers

• Provide technical leadership across the SDLC: planning estimation design development testing performance tuning and maintenance

• Provide Hands-on development in C# for custom components and integrations

• Design and manage integration infrastructure for Power Platform ensuring secure and scalable connectivity

What Youll Need

Required:

• Bachelors degree in IT Computer Science Engineering or 15 years of relevant experience

• 10 years in IT with experience in developing and maintaining custom business applications

• 2 years in a supervisory or lead role guiding technical staff

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps-canvas/model-driven Power Pages Power Automate Power BI) and Dataverse

• Hands-on experience developing or leading enterprise web applications

• Prior experience managing or supporting systems with web applications or Java environments

• Working knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture (REST/SOAP) and endpoint security (APIM OIDC)

• Familiarity with RDBMS (DB2 Oracle Postgres or SQL Server)

• Experience with load/performance testing

Desired:

• Experience designing environment strategy DLP policies and governance for Power Platform

• Proficiency with CI/CD and automated deployments using Azure DevOps and Git

• Experience with code quality/security scanning and remediation workflows

• Integration experience with Azure services and external APIs

• Background in public sector or healthcare domains with familiarity in PHI/PII safeguards

• Strong experience with model-driven app development and integration infrastructure for Power Platform

Physical Demands

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal state and local standards

• Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings etc.

• Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer utilizing a mouse keyboard and monitor