Solutions Architect Power Platform

• Act as the lead Power Platform and Solution Architect, or work alongside other architects, on strategic projects including business application, digital transformation, procurement and software development initiatives. • Work with business analysts, product owners and project team members to understand business requirements and facilitate the definition of functional and non-functional requirements. • Review and design solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse and Copilot Studio, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned with organisational standards. • Define Power Platform architecture and governance covering environment strategy, security, identity and access, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), custom connectors, application lifecycle management, monitoring and operational ownership. • Design solutions that meet business requirements and involve collaboration across applications, integration, data, security, cloud and infrastructure architecture domains. • Assess solution requirements and determine when the appropriate technology and when Power Platform, Microsoft, Azure or custom-development capabilities should be used. • Design integration between Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure services and other enterprise applications using appropriate integration patterns and APIs. • Present wider solution designs to architecture governance forums for review and approval. • Support enterprise architects in the development of architecture roadmaps, business applications and associated technology platforms. • Manage relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders, acting as a trusted architecture adviser throughout the solution lifecycle. Essential Skills • Proven experience architecting and delivering enterprise solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, with strong knowledge of Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse, together with experience of Power Pages and/or Copilot Studio. • Strong understanding of Power Platform architecture and governance, including environment strategy, security, Data Loss Prevention policies, connector governance, application lifecycle management and operational considerations. • Proven experience in broader solution design and architecture, delivering technical solutions to business requirements across technology layers including user experience, applications, integration, data and cloud services. • Experience of Microsoft Azure platform services and understanding of how Power Platform solutions integrate with Azure, Microsoft 365 and wider enterprise technology environments. • Ability to evaluate business requirements and determine when Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure services or custom development represents the appropriate architectural approach. • Effective interpersonal skills and experience engaging with senior business and technology stakeholders, including facilitating architecture and solution-design discussions. • Ability to produce concise and accurate high-level solution designs, architecture decisions and supporting documentation that align with architecture governance processes, technology strategy and business requirements. • Experience defining and working with non-functional requirements including security, availability, performance, scalability, resilience and monitoring. • Experience presenting designs through Architecture Review Boards, Technical Design Authorities or equivalent architecture governance processes. Desirable Skills • Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and its relationship with Dataverse and the wider Power Platform ecosystem. • Experience with Azure integration technologies such as API Management, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service B