Power Platform Engineer

The Premier League’s IT department are looking for an experienced Power Platform Engineer to join the Engineering team, responsible for designing, building and supporting Power Platform solutions across the Premier League and its member clubs. The Power Platform Engineering function’s core responsibility is to design, build, deploy and maintain business applications, automations and data solutions using Microsoft Power Platform technologies. These solutions will support the Premier League as an organisation and its participating clubs by improving efficiency, reducing manual processes and enabling better use of data.

The Premier League is an equal opportunities employer and strives to create an inclusive culture where talent can flourish. We believe in the potential of everyone and open our doors to those who share those values. All appointments will be made based on merit; however, we particularly encourage applications from women, people from minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people.

Our hybrid-working model allows you some variety on your place of work, offering you the chance to work from home on some days each week. Where possible, you will attend the office or site visits in line with our company policy.

The Role

• Design scalable and maintainable solutions using Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse.
• Establish best practices for environment strategy, solution layering, and governance.
• Build canvas and model-driven applications to support business processes, ensuring usability, performance and maintainability.
• Design and implement automated workflows across systems, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency.
• Design and manage data models within Dataverse, ensuring data integrity, security and performance.
• Experience integrating with external data sources and APIs.
• Connect Power Platform solutions with Microsoft 365, Azure services and third-party systems via connectors and custom APIs.
• Deliver intuitive, user-friendly applications that empower non-technical users while maintaining enterprise-grade standards.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts and stakeholders, and support adoption of Power Platform through documentation, training and best practices.
• Implement governance controls, environment strategies and application lifecycle management (ALM), including CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform solutions.
• Experience of working within a project team in an Agile manner, delivering iterative improvements aligned to business needs.
• Ensure solutions adhere to organisational security, data protection and compliance requirements, including role-based access and data policies.

Role Requirement

• Experience developing solutions using Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse).
• Strong understanding of low-code application design and workflow automation.
• Experience integrating Power Platform with Microsoft 365, Azure services and third-party APIs.
• Familiarity with ALM practices, including solution packaging, deployment pipelines and environment management.
• Experience with TypeScript.
• Education in an appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience.
• Experience of owning and delivering solutions end-to-end.
• Experience of managing matters autonomously.
• Strong technical awareness and the ability to think strategically about platform adoption and scalability.
• Outstanding attention to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent work ethic and ability to cope with pressurised situations and tight timeframes whilst maintaining a professional approach.