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This role requires 5 days on site in downtown Washington, DC.
Position Overview
We are seeking a senior-level Power Platform Solutions Architect / Technical Lead to help design and deliver modern business applications, intelligent automation, and AI-enabled solutions across the Microsoft ecosystem.
This role combines hands-on solution architecture with technical leadership. The individual will work across Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Azure, and automation technologies while providing technical direction to development teams and partnering with business stakeholders to turn complex requirements into scalable solutions.
The ideal candidate brings a strong software engineering foundation along with deep experience designing enterprise Power Platform solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Solution Design
- Own the technical architecture for solutions built across Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Azure.
- Design solutions with scalability, security, maintainability, performance, and reuse in mind.
- Develop technical designs covering application architecture, integrations, data models, security, APIs, and deployment strategy.
- Establish repeatable architecture patterns and reusable components for Power Platform development.
- Ensure solutions align with broader enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and technology standards.
AI & Intelligent Automation
- Design AI-enabled business solutions using Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI Service, AI Builder, and related Microsoft technologies.
- Develop conversational and generative AI solutions that incorporate enterprise data, knowledge sources, actions, APIs, and connectors.
- Architect automation solutions using Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop.
- Support both attended and unattended RPA use cases and establish sustainable automation patterns.
Development & Integrations
- Guide development across low-code and traditional software engineering components.
- Design integrations between Power Platform and enterprise applications using APIs, custom connectors, Azure services, and other integration technologies.
- Support integrations with platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, databases, and other business systems.
- Provide technical direction for Dataverse configuration and development, including data models, security, business rules, plugins, and custom connectors.
- Apply C#, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, and other development technologies where appropriate.
Technical Leadership
- Provide day-to-day technical direction to developers and automation engineers.
- Establish engineering standards around development, source control, testing, code quality, documentation, and solution design.
- Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Mentor technical team members and help troubleshoot complex development and integration challenges.
- Drive reusable development approaches that improve consistency and reduce duplication across solutions.
DevOps, ALM & Governance
- Establish application lifecycle management practices for Power Platform solutions.
- Support automated build, deployment, and release processes using Azure DevOps or comparable CI/CD tooling.
- Help define environment strategy, access controls, security models, data loss prevention controls, and deployment standards.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, architecture, and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet organizational requirements.
- Establish appropriate monitoring, operational support, auditability, and production-readiness practices.
Business & Delivery Partnership
- Partner with product owners, business teams, and functional stakeholders to understand workflows, challenges, and technical requirements.
- Lead technical discovery and solution-design sessions.
- Translate business requirements into architecture recommendations, delivery approaches, estimates, and technical plans.
- Clearly communicate technical decisions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to backlog refinement, sprint planning, technical estimation, and dependency management.
- Develop technical documentation and support knowledge transfer across delivery teams.
Required Experience
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise application development, software engineering, or solution architecture.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions within Microsoft Power Platform.
- Strong architecture and implementation experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages, and Power BI.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, including conversational AI, generative AI solutions, knowledge grounding, actions, and connectors.
- Experience building RPA solutions with Power Automate Desktop, including attended and unattended automation.
- Strong software development background with technologies such as C#, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, plugins, and custom connectors.
- Experience designing and integrating solutions with enterprise systems and external applications.
- Working knowledge of Azure services such as Azure Functions, App Service, API Management, Logic Apps, Storage, Key Vault, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure Monitor, and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Experience implementing CI/CD and deployment processes using Azure DevOps or comparable tooling.
- Strong understanding of application architecture, secure development, design patterns, testing, source control, and maintainable software design.
- Previous experience providing technical leadership, architecture guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to development teams.
- Ability to work directly with business stakeholders and translate business needs into practical technical solutions.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments and collaborating across distributed technical teams.
Preferred Experience
- Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect certification or comparable hands-on architecture experience.
- Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect certification or equivalent Azure architecture experience.
- Experience establishing or supporting a Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE).
- Knowledge of enterprise low-code governance and application lifecycle practices.
- Experience with responsible AI, AI governance, security, privacy, and compliance considerations.
- Integration experience involving platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, or Oracle.
Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.
Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit .
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
