Remote Power Platform Automation Engineer 3-Month Contract

Motion Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a hands-on Power Platform Automation Engineer for a three-month remote engagement to streamline operations via Power Platform, Power Automate, and data integration. You will collaborate with business stakeholders to identify bottlenecks and deliver practical automation solutions.

This role emphasizes end-to-end delivery from requirements to deployment, with maintainable solutions and direct impact on operational efficiency within a mid-size chemical manufacturing client.

Qualifications

• Professional experience delivering business process automation with Microsoft Power Platform.
• Hands-on Power Automate development experience including cloud flows and error handling.
• Experience with Power Apps, Power BI, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft 365.
• Experience integrating workflows with SQL Server and other applications.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into technical solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and independent-work skills.
• Availability to work Monday–Friday, 8 AM–5 PM ET.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business users to understand workflows, identify automation opportunities.
• Map current and future processes and prioritize improvements based on value.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy automated workflows using Power Automate.
• Build Power Apps to streamline data entry, operations, and approvals.
• Develop Power BI dashboards and automated reporting using DAX and Power Query.
• Leverage SharePoint Online, Teams, Outlook, Excel, Forms, OneDrive, Dataverse.
• Connect automation workflows to SQL Server and other enterprise systems.
• Troubleshoot data connectivity, authentication, gateway issues.
• Document solution architecture, rules, dependencies, maintenance needs.
• Coordinate testing, deployment, and provide training to internal teams.

Skills

Power Platform development

Power Automate

Power Apps

Power BI

SharePoint Online

SQL Server integration

Data integration

Requirements gathering

Independent work

Tools

Power Platform

Dataverse

On-premises Data Gateway

SQL Server

Power Query

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a hands-on Power Platform Automation Engineer for a three-month remote engagement to streamline operations via Power Platform, Power Automate, and data integration. You will collaborate with business stakeholders to identify bottlenecks and deliver practical automation solutions.

This role emphasizes end-to-end delivery from requirements to deployment, with maintainable solutions and direct impact on operational efficiency within a mid-size chemical manufacturing client.