Power Platform Tech Lead

Power Platform Tech Lead

Location: NY or  Alpharetta – Hybrid

Role Overview

Critical dual-mandate role serving as the primary technical authority on Microsoft Power Platform supporting E360 Performance Improvement. Bridges business and technology, owns end-to-end technical architecture, governs build quality, and assesses E360 platform performance issues.

Key Responsibilities

•            Ability to own the end-to-end technical architecture for Power Apps/Power Automate solution design, RBAC model, and downstream export design.

•            Conduct structured assessments of E360 platform performance across Power Apps, Power Automate, identifying bottlenecks, latency patterns, and scalability constraints.

•            Analyze application telemetry, data load characteristics, API call volumes, and workflow execution logs to diagnose root causes of performance degradation.

•            Produce documented performance findings with prioritized, actionable remediation recommendations mapped to impact and delivery effort.

•            Act as technical counterpart to Morgan Stanley''s E360 Tech Lead ensuring solution alignment to firm architecture, security, and governance standards.

•            Collaborate with Morgan Stanley''s internal SME team to align optimization work with the E360 platform roadmap and upcoming enhancement priorities.

•            Translate BA- and Data BA-authored requirements into detailed technical specifications, component designs, and integration contracts.

•            Guide and govern Power Platform Developers and QA Engineers through build, test, and deployment phases; serve as primary technical escalation point.

•            Own the technical delivery plan, sprint-level task breakdown, cross-team dependency management, and design/code review governance.

•            Maintain solution design records, integration specifications, data mapping, and deployment runbooks to ensure long-term supportability.

Skills & Experience Required

•            10+ years of enterprise technology delivery experience, with 3+ years in a technical lead role on Microsoft Power Platform.

•            Deep expertise in Power Apps (model-driven + canvas), Power Automate, and Dataverse integration patterns.

•            Demonstrated ability to diagnose and remediate performance issues in Power Platform applications.

•            Experience with API integration architecture in enterprise HR data environments (Apigee, REST, DDP-style distribution patterns).

•            Background delivering complex, multi-workstream HR or enterprise workflow systems with compliance, audit, and entitlement requirements.

•            Strong technical communication: able to bridge business stakeholders, HR SMEs, and developers; produce clear architecture documentation.

•            Agile/Scrum delivery experience in outcome-based, fixed-fee engagement structures with phase gates.

Preferred Qualifications

•            Prior experience on workforce reduction, compensation, or talent management platforms in financial services or similarly regulated industries.

•            Power BI development experience for operational and compliance reporting dashboards (adverse impact, headcount impact).

•            Experience with Java-based API services and DDP-style data distribution architectures.

•            Working knowledge of Snowflake.