Senior Power Platform Automation Engineer

Own administration of Power Platform across development, test, and production environments.

Implement and maintain the Power Platform CoE governance framework, including environment strategy, DLP policies, security roles, licensing, and access controls.

Enforce platform guardrails to ensure solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and supportable.

Manage solution promotion, versioning, change management, and operational readiness for production deployments.

Partner with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure adherence to enterprise standards.

Own end-to-end automation delivery, from solution architecture through development, deployment, and operational support, using Power Automate and Copilot Studio.

Define the automation architecture for each use case.

Develop production-grade automations, including Power Automate workflows and Copilot Studio agents.

Design Copilot Studio conversation models (topics, prompts, triggers, escalation paths).

Integrate automations with Microsoft 365 and enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, SaaS applications, and custom APIs).

Establish reusable patterns and components across Power Automate and Copilot Studio.

Ensure automations are operationally sound, with standardized exception handling, logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Make tooling decisions, including when to extend automation with RPA technologies such as UiPath.

Support the hybrid CoE operating model with centralized governance and federated enablement.

Provide design guidance, architecture reviews, and production readiness reviews for maker‑built solutions.

Serve as a Tier 3 escalation point for complex automation and Copilot issues.

Enable makers through documentation, standards, Community of Practices (CoP), office hours, and hands‑on advisory support.

Mentor citizen developers and junior engineers on secure and scalable automation patterns.

Monitor automation health, performance, failures, and usage across the platform.

Build dashboards and reporting (Power Platform analytics, Power BI).

Drive continuous improvement of governance, tooling, and development standards.

Partner with Microsoft and internal stakeholders to stay aligned with roadmap and new capabilities.

7+ years of demonstrated experience serving as both a Microsoft Power Platform administrator and a hands-on Power Automate and Copilot Studio engineer in an enterprise environment.

Proven experience implementing Power Platform governance and CoE models.

Strong understanding of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and connector governance, Environment strategies and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Experience integrating Power Automate with enterprise systems via APIs.

Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to support production‑grade automations.

Experience with UiPath (development and/or administration).

Experience in regulated environments (e.g., pharma, healthcare, GxP, SOX).

Familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira, identity platforms, and security automation use cases.

Experience with scripting (PowerShell, Python) to complement automation workflows.

Power Platform certifications (PL‑400, PL-500, PL‑600, Copilot Studio‑related certifications).

Strong communication skills and comfort working within a centralized CoE supporting distributed teams.