Senior Microsoft Azure & Power Platform Architect/Developer

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Microsoft Azure & Power Platform Architect/Developer to design, build, and establish a new enterprise application using Microsoft Power Platform, Dataverse, and Azure event-driven services.

The ideal candidate will combine solution architecture and hands-on development experience. This role will be responsible for the end-to-end technical solution, including Power Apps, Dataverse data architecture, Azure integration, APIs, security, event-driven processing, ALM/DevOps, deployment, and troubleshooting.

This is not a Power Apps configuration-only position. The candidate must have strong software development, integration, Azure, Dataverse, and architecture experience.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in Microsoft application development, cloud engineering, or solution architecture.
• 4 years of hands-on Microsoft Power Platform experience.
• Microsoft PL-400: Power Platform Developer Associate certification — current or previously obtained.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft Dataverse.
• Strong experience designing and developing enterprise Power Apps solutions.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions using Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous processing.
• Experience integrating Power Platform/Dataverse with Azure and external enterprise systems.
• Strong knowledge of application security, identity, APIs, data architecture, ALM, and DevOps.

Key Technical Skills

Microsoft Power Platform

• Power Apps – Model-Driven and Canvas Apps
• Microsoft Dataverse
• Dataverse data modeling, relationships, keys, and business rules
• Dataverse security roles, teams, business units, and ownership models
• Power Automate
• Dataverse Web API
• Dataverse plug-ins
• Custom APIs and Custom Connectors
• Solutions and solution layering
• Environment variables and connection references
• Power Platform ALM and environment management

Azure

Hands-on architecture/development experience with several of the following:

• Azure Functions
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure API Management
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure SQL
• Azure Storage
• Application Insights / Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Entra ID
• Managed Identities
• Azure DevOps Repos and Pipelines

The candidate must understand how Azure services integrate with Power Platform and Dataverse, not simply have general Azure infrastructure experience.

Event-Driven Architecture

Demonstrated experience designing systems where application or data events trigger downstream processing using loosely coupled components.

Experience with:

• Publish/Subscribe architecture
• Queues and Topics
• Event producers and consumers
• Asynchronous processing
• Dataverse event handling
• Webhooks
• Azure Functions
• Service Bus queues/topics
• Event Grid
• Retry and exception handling
• Dead-letter queues
• Idempotent processing
• Transaction and data consistency
• Application telemetry and monitoring

Architecture & Development Responsibilities

• Design the end-to-end architecture for a new Power Platform application.
• Design Dataverse tables, relationships, security, and data access patterns.
• Develop Model-Driven and/or Canvas Power Apps.
• Design and implement Azure-based event-driven integrations.
• Develop Dataverse plug-ins, Custom APIs, connectors, and server-side extensions.
• Develop using C#, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST, JSON, and Microsoft APIs as applicable.
• Integrate Power Platform with Azure SQL, enterprise APIs, legacy applications, and external systems.
• Design synchronous vs. asynchronous processing patterns.
• Implement authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID and managed identities.
• Establish DEV, TEST/UAT, and PROD environments.
• Implement Power Platform ALM using managed solutions, environment variables, connection references, and deployment pipelines.
• Establish source control and CI/CD using Azure DevOps and/or Power Platform Pipelines.
• Troubleshoot performance, integration, and application issues.
• Create architecture diagrams, data models, interface specifications, and deployment documentation.
• Conduct technical design and code reviews.
• Support production deployment and transition to operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft PL-600 – Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
• Microsoft Azure architecture/developer certification
• Enterprise or Federal Government Power Platform experience
• Azure DevOps and Agile/SAFe experience
• Experience modernizing legacy applications using Power Platform and Azure
• Experience migrating SQL/legacy data into Dataverse
• Experience with NIST, RMF, or Federal security requirements

Desired Candidate Profile

The successful candidate should be able to independently translate:

Business Requirement → Solution Architecture → Dataverse Data Model → Power App → Events/APIs → Azure Integration → Security → ALM/DevOps → Production Deployment

The individual will serve as a senior technical authority while remaining directly involved in architecture, development, integration, configuration, troubleshooting, and deployment.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline preferred.

Equivalent technical education, certifications, and directly relevant enterprise development experience may be considered.