Microsoft Power Platform Developer II

Job Purpose The Power Platform Developer II designs, builds, and supports low-code business solutions on the Microsoft Power Platform — primarily Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio — replacing manual and spreadsheet-driven processes with secure, scalable, supportable applications, automations, and AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with business stakeholders and IT teammates, this developer translates requirements into working solutions and owns small to mid-sized efforts end to end with moderate guidance from senior developers and architects, working within established environment, data, and governance standards.
• The role balances new delivery with the enhancement and support of an existing solution portfolio, and contributes reusable components, patterns, and documentation to the broader maker community.
• Partner with business stakeholders and analysts to gather and document requirements, assess whether a Power Platform solution is the right fit, and estimate delivery effort.
• Design, build, test, and deploy canvas and model-driven Power Apps, including responsive layouts, mobile scenarios, and role-based access.
• Develop and maintain Power Automate cloud flows — approvals, notifications, scheduled jobs, and system-to-system processes — with sound expression logic, error handling, retry patterns, and failure alerting.
• author topics and conversation flows, ground generative answers in approved knowledge sources, configure actions and tools that invoke flows and connectors, and publish to channels such as Microsoft Teams.
• Model and maintain Dataverse tables, relationships, business rules, and security roles, and select the appropriate data source and connector strategy for each solution.
• Integrate solutions with enterprise systems (e.g., SharePoint, Snowflake, SAP, Azure) using standard connectors, custom connectors, and REST APIs.
• solution packaging, environment strategy, source control, and deployment pipelines across development, test, and production.
• Test thoroughly and support user acceptance testing; tune app and flow performance, remediate Solution and App Checker findings, and validate agent responses for accuracy and appropriate behavior.
• Build to security and governance standards, including least-privilege access, data loss prevention policies, and Microsoft Entra ID authentication.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance solutions in production; resolve incidents and defects, track adoption, and consolidate or retire solutions that are no longer needed.
• Maintain technical design documentation, support runbooks, and end-user guidance; coach business makers on platform standards and stay current with Power Platform and Copilot release waves.

Requirements

• Education and Experience Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2–6 years of professional experience building and supporting business applications, including at least two years of hands-on Microsoft Power Platform delivery.
• Demonstrated record of taking solutions from requirements through production release and ongoing support.
• Hands-on Power Apps development (canvas and model-driven).
• Hands-on Power Automate cloud flow development, including expressions, error handling, and connector configuration.
• Working knowledge of Copilot Studio agent development — topics, knowledge sources, actions, and publishing — or closely related conversational/AI tooling experience and the aptitude to become proficient quickly.
• Dataverse data modeling and security roles, supported by relational database and SQL fundamentals.
• Integration experience with REST APIs, JSON, and standard and custom connectors.
• Familiarity with Power Platform ALM (solutions, environments, source control, pipelines) and with platform security and governance concepts such as DLP policies and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Translates business problems into practical technical solutions and explains technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the persistence to find root cause rather than treat symptoms.
• Works independently on assigned solutions with moderate guidance, recognizes when to escalate, and collaborates well in an Agile, service-oriented delivery team.
• Detail-oriented and organized across concurrent priorities; a curious, self-directed learner who keeps pace with a rapidly evolving platform.

Preferred

• Qualifications Microsoft certification such as PL-900, PL-200, or PL-400 (Power Platform Developer Associate).
• Experience with AI Builder, Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility, Azure AI services, or responsible AI and prompt engineering practices.
• Exposure to Azure Functions or Logic Apps, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or PCF components, and Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Familiarity with manufacturing, supply chain, or distribution business processes.