Power Platform Engineer

Power Platform Engineer 4 months Oakland/Sacramento/Rocklin, CA (Hybrid: 1-3 days per week) Local candidates only EQUIPMENT: Client laptop will be provided. TOP THINGS: Prior utility experience Specific Power Apps domain knowledge (building, releasing, and maintaining Power Apps Solutions for teams) and other power platform skills such as Power BI, Power Automate, and Dataverse experience Cross functional requirements gathering and partnership experience. Department Electric Risk & Compliance – Visual Management & Insight Services (VMIS) Position Summary Manages complex data analysis, business intelligence, Power Apps development, automation, and reporting projects with limited supervision from initial request through delivery of actionable results. This role supports enterprise compliance, risk, operations, governance, and executive reporting initiatives by translating business objectives into scalable Power Apps, Power Platform, Power BI, and data analytics solutions. The Senior Operations Data Analyst designs, develops, tests, deploys, and maintains data-driven business applications and reporting solutions that improve operational efficiency, compliance visibility, decision-making, user experience, workflow transparency, and business process consistency. The role combines advanced data analysis, Power Apps solution design, automation, application development, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and project management capabilities to deliver high-quality solutions on time and within scope. Key Responsibilities • Manages complex data analysis, dashboard, automation, and Power Apps development projects with limited supervision from initial request through presentation of results, ensuring work is completed on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. • Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports Canvas and Model-Driven Power Apps that improve operational efficiency, user experience, structured data capture, workflow visibility, compliance tracking, governance processes, and field or office business operations. • Builds intuitive, user-centered Power Apps with clear navigation, effective screen design, role-based experiences, embedded business rules, validation logic, forms, galleries, approvals, and data-entry controls that reduce manual work and improve data quality. • Integrates Power Apps with SharePoint Online, Dataverse, Power Automate, Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, Excel, SQL databases, APIs, Power BI, and other enterprise data sources or systems to create connected end-to-end business solutions. • Applies Power Apps governance, solution lifecycle management, documentation, testing, version control, environment strategy, permissions, access controls, and support practices to ensure applications are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards. • Designs analyses, reports, dashboards, scorecards, and data models to achieve business objectives; processes, cleanses, validates, and analyzes data to develop clear findings, trends, profiles, KPIs, and actionable insights tailored to specific audiences. • Develops and maintains Power BI dashboards, executive reporting solutions, operational reports, compliance reports, KPI scorecards, and self-service analytics products that support risk, compliance, governance, and performance management activities. • Designs and implements scalable semantic models, datasets, dimensional data models, fact and dimension tables, data relationships, and DAX calculations to support enterprise reporting needs and large data sets. • Creates advanced DAX measures, calculated columns, KPIs, time intelligence calculations, running totals, period-over-period comparisons, dynamic measures, and statistical calculations; monitors and improves Power BI performance through model optimization and best practices. • Designs and maintains Power Automate workflows that automate approvals, notifications, document management, data refreshes, reporting processes, and other repeatable business activities connected to Power Apps and enterprise reporting solutions. • Manages complex data extracts, list pulls, data transfers, and data integration activities while ensuring accuracy, consistency, quality, governance, and appropriate security controls. • Creates automated data routines, ETL/ELT processes, Power Query transformations, and reporting refresh processes to support efficient and accurate data manipulation, cleansing, and delivery. • Implements row-level security, data governance controls, lifecycle management practices, and reporting standards to support secure and reliable business intelligence and Power Platform solutions. • Gathers and documents business requirements, facilitates stakeholder workshops and solution design sessions, translates business needs into technical requirements, prototypes Power Apps concepts, and provides user training, documentation, and knowledge-transfer support. • Develops and communicates clear, concise, and acti

Salary : $58 - $62