Role : Power Platform Engineer
Location : Columbus, OH
Durations: 3 Months Contract to Hire
MOI : Telephonic & Zoom
Primary Skills: Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform, Power Apps, Power Automate & Copilot Studio.
Need Candidates with a Minimum of 10 Years of Experience. This is an Onsite/Hybrid Model.
Locations: ColumbAkron/Cincinnati, OH / Indianapolis, IN / Detroit, MI, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, Minnetonka, MN, Pittsburgh, PA
Job Description:
- Power Platform Engineer to help build apps and utilize Copilot Studio for AI integration.
- The Automation Engineer Sr's primary duty involves design work, specifically designing tailored solutions to meet specific requests using automation technologies.
- In addition to the work of a more senior automation engineer, this position will coach more junior-level engineers on best automation practices and techniques.
Summary:
- The Automation Engineer Sr's primary duty involves design work, specifically designing a tailored solution to meet a specific client request using automation technologies.
- In addition to the work of a more senior automation engineer, this position will coach more junior-level engineers on best automation practices and techniques.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Primary duty involves design work, specifically designing a tailored solution to meet a specific request using automation technologies.
- Design, develop, and manage custom business applications using Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven).
- Create and optimize business process automations using Power Automate.
- Build data visualizations and dashboards using Power BI.
- Develop, manage, and maintain AI-powered chatbots and virtual agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Leverage Copilot Studio to create conversational experiences that integrate with back-end systems, including Dataverse, Azure services, APIs, and legacy applications.
- Integrate Power Platform solutions with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, and other services.
- Work with business stakeholders to gather requirements, define use cases, and deliver solutions that drive productivity and user adoption.
- Document technical specifications, workflows, and solution architectures for small-to medium-scale projects and deliver presentations with minimal supervision.
- Stay current with new features and roadmap developments across Power Platform and Microsoft AI capabilities.
- Provide effective production support, including accurate problem identification, ticket documentation, and customer/vendor dialogue.
- Dissects complex situations and refocuses on critical technology tasks.
- Frequently anticipate problems and analyze ways to mitigate the risk.
- Articulates the business value and impact of advanced technical and non-technical information and understands when to escalate issues.
- Coaches teams on best automation practices techniques.
- Leads other automation engineers through tactical problems.
Other duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of technical experience
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Copilot Studio.
Preferred Qualifications:
- High degree of technical expertise/professional mastery to recommend process improvements.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Copilot Studio, including chatbot authoring, trigger phrases, topics, entities, and integration with external data sources and APIs.
- Experience with Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Azure Logic Apps or Azure Functions.
- Familiarity with Power Fx, low-code expressions, and custom connectors.
- Basic scripting knowledge (JavaScript, PowerShell, or C#) is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to work in agile and cross-functional team environments.
- Experience with AI Builder, Copilot integrations, or Azure OpenAI services is a strong plus.
- Experience in UX/UI design for apps and chatbot experiences.
- Understanding of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps practices for Power Platform.
- Microsoft Certifications such as: PL-100: Power Platform App Maker, PL-200: Power Platform Functional Consultant PL-400: Power Platform Developer PL-900: Power Platform Fundamentals.