Power Platform Architect - Contract

We are seeking an experienced Power Platform Architect to join a major digital transformation programme within a large-scale, enterprise environment. This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver innovative solutions across a complex organisation undergoing significant business and technology change.

The successful candidate will play a key role in defining architecture, guiding delivery teams, and ensuring best practice adoption across the Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem.

INSIDE IR35
HYBRID WORKING - 3 DAYS IN WEST LONDON/MIDDLESEX

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end architecture for enterprise-scale Power Platform solutions.
• Design scalable, secure and high-performing solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform suite.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across multiple workstreams.
• Engage with senior business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into robust solution designs.
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns and best practices across the programme.
• Lead solution design workshops and provide guidance to development teams.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise security, compliance and governance requirements.
• Collaborate with integration, cloud, security and data teams to deliver seamless enterprise solutions.
• Review and assure technical designs, code quality and deployment approaches.
• Support estimation, planning and delivery activities within Agile teams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience as a Power Platform Architect within large enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise across:
  • Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven Apps)
  • Power Automate
  • Power Pages
  • Microsoft Dataverse
  • Power BI
• Strong experience designing enterprise-scale Microsoft solutions.
• Proven experience integrating Power Platform solutions with Azure services, APIs and third-party systems.
• Strong understanding of governance, security, ALM and DevOps practices within the Power Platform ecosystem.
• Experience defining architecture standards, reusable components and best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage at both business and technical levels.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within large, complex operational or infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of Azure Integration Services, Logic Apps, Functions and API Management.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps and automated deployments.
• Microsoft Power Platform certifications.
• Experience working in highly regulated or mission-critical environments.