Senior Power Platform Engineer

This role owns platform operations, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), automation, and agent lifecycle controls, partnering with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Microsoft 365, and business teams to enable reliable services and responsible innovation. We are seeking a hands-on Senior Power Platform Engineer to administer, secure, govern, and enhance enterprise Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.

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Role: Senior Power Platform Engineer
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Location: Warren, NJ, United States Onsite
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Senior Power Platform Engineer
Position Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Power Platform Engineer to administer, secure, govern, and enhance enterprise Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio. This role owns platform operations, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), automation, and agent lifecycle controls, partnering with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Microsoft 365, and business teams to enable reliable services and responsible innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Power Platform Administration & Operations
Administer Power Platform Admin Center; manage environment provisioning, groups, lifecycle, security, Dataverse, connectors, and gateways across Development, Test/UAT, and Production.
Monitor service health, performance, failures, usage, and capacity; assess Microsoft releases and maintain operational standards, runbooks, and support documentation.
Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting across apps, flows, Power Fx, Dataverse, authentication, APIs, and connectivity; coordinate complex incidents with Microsoft Support.
Governance & Security
Implement DLP policies, connector classifications, environment controls, and least-privilege access in partnership with Security, Risk, Privacy, Compliance, and Architecture.
Maintain resource inventory and ownership; identify and remediate orphaned, inactive, high-risk, or non-compliant apps, flows, connections, environments, and agents.
Establish citizen-development and production standards, including governance of standard, premium, custom, and third-party connectors, auditing, and enterprise data access.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Engineer controlled Development Test/UAT Production releases using Power Platform Pipelines and approved CI/CD tooling; prevent unapproved direct production changes.
Manage solution packaging, managed/unmanaged solution standards, dependencies, environment variables, connection references, and deployment configurations.
Implement source control, versioning, automated validation and testing, release approvals, rollback, migration, and change-management practices.
Copilot Studio & Agent Governance
Administer Copilot Studio and agent development, testing, promotion, publication, sharing, and retirement across approved enterprise channels.
Govern agent tools and toolkits, knowledge sources, topics, actions, APIs, connectors, and flows; validate authentication, permissions, and least-privilege data access.
Monitor agent performance, failures, usage, and capacity; partner with AI Governance and Security on responsible AI, data protection, auditing, and lifecycle controls.
Engineering, Automation & Enablement
Review Canvas and model-driven apps, cloud flows, and integrations for security, scalability, supportability, and performance; develop reusable patterns and components.
Automate administration, compliance checks, ownership changes, and cleanup using PowerShell, Client CLI, Power Platform APIs, Microsoft Graph, and Azure DevOps.
Maintain logging, alerts, and dashboards; forecast Dataverse database, file, and log capacity and licensing needs, including premium connectors and AI consumption.
Mentor makers, developers, and support teams; document standards and provide architecture guidance for integrations with enterprise systems, REST APIs, and Azure services.
Required Qualifications
7+ years in enterprise technology, application/cloud engineering, or platform administration, including 4+ years of hands-on Microsoft Power Platform experience.
Strong enterprise administration experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Platform Admin Center, environments, DLP, and connector governance.
Demonstrated ALM delivery across Development, Test/UAT, and Production using solutions, Power Platform Pipelines, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
Working knowledge of Copilot Studio and enterprise agents; hands-on PowerShell, Client CLI, REST API, custom connector, and enterprise integration experience.
Strong understanding of Entra ID, authentication, authorization, service principals, and enterprise security; ability to troubleshoot across application, identity, data, and connectivity layers.
Strong technical documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in a large, regulated enterprise; advanced Copilot Studio administration and AI/agent governance.
Experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Microsoft Graph, GitHub Actions, or Power BI administration and integration.
Knowledge of privacy, information protection, data residency, retention, and auditing; relevant Microsoft Power Platform or Copilot Studio credentials preferred.?