Power Platform Administrator - Remote Governance & ALM

Eliassen Group; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Power Platform Administrator to manage administration, governance, support, and ongoing improvement of Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Dynamics 365 in a remote capacity.

The role emphasizes stability, security, compliance, adoption, and advising users while enabling scalable solutions across the organization. This is a contract role with a W2 benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching, and life insurance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years administering Microsoft Power Platform environments.
• Hands-on experience with Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), Power Automate, Dataverse, and governance and security.
• Experience configuring and supporting ALM processes and deployment pipelines.
• Experience administering and supporting Dynamics 365 applications.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of environment management, security roles, permissions, and access control.
• Experience with platform monitoring, reporting, and operational support.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Preferred: Experience with Power Platform CoE Starter Kit.
• Preferred: Familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure services, and Microsoft 365 administration.
• Preferred: Experience with PowerShell and administration scripting.
• Preferred: Experience with solution architecture and enterprise governance.
• Preferred: Knowledge of API integrations, custom connectors, and enterprise data sources.
• Preferred: Microsoft Power Platform and/or Dynamics 365 certifications.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Power Platform environments for development, testing, and production.
• Configure and manage environments, Dataverse, security roles, data policies, capacity, and settings.
• Monitor platform health, performance, usage, licensing, and capacity utilization.
• Manage lifecycle activities including provisioning, configuration, backup, recovery, and upgrades.
• Implement and maintain governance standards, policies, and best practices.
• Configure and manage Data Loss Prevention policies and security controls.
• Support tenant-wide administration and compliance requirements.
• Develop operational procedures and maintain platform documentation.
• Administer and support solution deployment processes across environments.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot ALM pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support source control, release management, and environment promotion.
• Assist with troubleshooting deployment, dependency, and configuration issues.
• Ensure adherence to standards for solution packaging and releases.
• Manage security roles, permissions, sharing models, and access control.
• Review and enforce governance for applications, flows, custom connectors, and integrations.
• Conduct platform audits and ensure compliance with security and operational requirements.
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams on risks and vulnerabilities.
• Serve as escalation point for Power Platform and Dynamics 365 support issues.
• Troubleshoot application, flow, environment, integration, and security problems.
• Provide guidance to business users and citizen developers.
• Create and maintain knowledge articles, training materials, and documentation.
• Facilitate adoption through training, office hours, and community engagement.
• Assist with solution design reviews and promote best practices.
• Mentor and support citizen developers building apps, flows, and Dataverse solutions.
• Review apps and automations for maintainability, security, and compliance.
• Provide guidance on architecture, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Promote reusable patterns, components, and governance standards.
• Install, configure, and maintain Dynamics 365 applications and components.
• Troubleshoot Dynamics 365 functionality, integrations, security, and performance.
• Support configuration changes, upgrades, and enhancements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve functional and technical challenges.

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Power Platform Administrator to manage administration, governance, support, and ongoing improvement of Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Dynamics 365 in a remote capacity.

The role emphasizes stability, security, compliance, adoption, and advising users while enabling scalable solutions across the organization. This is a contract role with a W2 benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching, and life insurance.