SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Developer - Power Platform

Cognizant; India; On-site; INR 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in India is seeking an Architect who owns the solution design across SharePoint Online, SPFx, and Power Platform. This is a design-authority role focused on architecture, governance, and scalable, secure solutions.

You will define build-versus-buy decisions, authentication and security patterns, and development standards, while challenging day-to-day approaches and guiding teams toward reusable, maintainable designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record in designing SharePoint/Power Platform solutions.
• Experience in security, governance, and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for SPFx and Power Platform engagements.
• Make key technical decisions: SPFx vs Power Platform vs out-of-the-box.
• Define authentication and security architecture and API access patterns.
• Establish development standards, ALM strategy, governance, and reusable components.
• Provide architectural governance and design reviews for teams.
• Advise on modernization roadmaps and credible solution designs.
• Anticipate risks around performance and long-term supportability.

Skills

Architecture leadership

SharePoint Online

SPFx

Power Platform

M365 security

Entra ID & Graph

Governance

ALM strategy

Architecture artifacts

Design reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

SharePoint Online

SPFx

Dataverse

Power Apps

Power Automate

Microsoft Graph

Entra ID

Job description

Role Summary

We are looking for an Architect who owns the solution design across SharePoint Online, SPFx, and Power Platform. This is a design-authority role. You set the architecture, make the build-versus-buy and platform choices, define governance, and ensure what the teams build is secure, scalable, and maintainable. You are still technically deep enough to prototype and to challenge a developer's approach, but your primary output is design, direction, and standards rather than day-to-day feature code.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for SPFx and Power Platform engagements, from requirements through to a documented target design.
• Make the key technical decisions: SPFx versus Power Platform versus out-of-the-box, canvas versus model-driven, Dataverse versus SharePoint as the data layer, and where custom code is justified.
• Define authentication and security architecture, including Entra ID app registrations, permission scoping, least-privilege consent, and API access patterns via Microsoft Graph.
• Establish and maintain development standards, ALM strategy, environment/tenant governance, and reusable components across teams.
• Provide architectural governance and design review for the work that Leads and developers deliver.
• Advise clients and internal stakeholders on modernization roadmaps, platform capabilities, and effort/complexity trade-offs, and support proposals and SOWs with credible solution designs.
• Anticipate risks around performance, licensing, tenant limits, and long-term supportability, and design around them.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong architecture-level command of SharePoint Online, SPFx, and the broader M365 platform.
• Deep Power Platform expertise across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, including environment strategy and DLP/governance.
• Solid grasp of Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, and M365 security and identity models.
• Ability to produce clear architecture artifacts: solution designs, integration flows, and governance documents.
• Track record of designing solutions that other teams then build and support.