Senior Power Platform Architect

Horizontal Talent; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 47,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a hands-on Sr. Power Platform Engineer to design, build, govern, and support enterprise Microsoft 365 solutions. You will partner with business and technology teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable platform services.

Responsibilities include designing Power Apps, Automate flows, Dataverse, SharePoint Online, governance practices, and end-to-end ALM. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting Microsoft enterprise technologies such as Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint Online, or closely related cloud services.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building, troubleshooting, and supporting production Power Apps and Power Automate solutions.
• Demonstrated experience implementing Power Platform governance, including environment strategy, DLP policies, connector controls, lifecycle management, ownership, inventory, capacity, and licensing.
• Strong experience integrating and automating Microsoft 365 services using Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, PowerShell, PnP PowerShell, custom connectors, Azure Automation, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise solutions across Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, and related Microsoft 365 services.
• Translate business needs into technical designs that balance usability, security, scalability, maintainability, and supportability.
• Build, enhance, and support Canvas and Model-Driven Power Apps with a strong focus on user experience, performance, accessibility, and data integrity.
• Develop and troubleshoot complex Power Automate flows, including integrations, permissions, authentication, service limits, and downstream dependencies.
• Design Dataverse tables, relationships, security roles, and solution components to support enterprise application needs.
• Help define and improve Power Platform governance practices, including environment strategy, DLP policies, connector governance, lifecycle management, inventory, ownership, and licensing considerations.
• Support application lifecycle management using solutions, environment variables, connection references, and controlled release practices across environments.
• Design, administer, and support SharePoint Online solutions, including site architecture, permissions, metadata, search, external sharing, and governance.
• Build automation and integrations using Microsoft Graph, SharePoint REST APIs, PowerShell, PnP PowerShell, custom connectors, Azure Automation, and similar tools.
• Partner with security, compliance, privacy, and architecture teams to apply least-privilege access, data protection, auditability, and retention considerations.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and document corrective actions and operational improvements.
• Contribute to engineering standards, reusable patterns, documentation, runbooks, and technical enablement for peers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business partners to clarify requirements, explain tradeoffs, provide recommendations, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Power Platform

Enterprise Microsoft 365

Cross-team collaboration

Security & compliance

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Graph

REST APIs

PowerShell

PnP PowerShell

Azure Automation

Azure Functions

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking a hands-on Sr. Power Platform Engineer to design, build, govern, and support enterprise Microsoft 365 solutions. You will partner with business and technology teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable platform services.

Responsibilities include designing Power Apps, Automate flows, Dataverse, SharePoint Online, governance practices, and end-to-end ALM. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential.