Power Platform Technical Architect Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite Contract: Outside IR35 I'm partnering with a leading Microsoft Partner to appoint an experienced Technical Architect to support a major enterprise Power Platform programme. This role offers the opportunity to lead architecture, performance optimisation, and technical delivery across a complex Power Platform estate, working alongside senior stakeholders and specialist teams in a highly collaborative environment. As Technical Architect, you will take ownership of the overall technical architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, high-performing, and aligned with enterprise standards. You'll work closely with business stakeholders, technical leads, developers, and SMEs to drive successful delivery while continuously improving platform performance and user experience. Lead the end-to-end technical architecture and design of Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Power Apps, Power Automate, security models, and downstream integrations. Assess and evaluate platform performance across Power Platform applications, identifying bottlenecks, latency issues, and scalability concerns. Investigate application telemetry, workflow activity, API usage patterns, and operational metrics to diagnose and resolve performance-related challenges. Produce detailed technical assessments and actionable recommendations, prioritising improvements based on business value, risk, and delivery effort. Translate business and data requirements into comprehensive technical specifications, solution designs, and integration models. Provide leadership and guidance to development and QA teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Serve as the key escalation point for complex technical issues, supporting teams through design, build, testing, and deployment phases. Oversee technical planning, sprint activities, dependency management, design reviews, and architecture governance processes. Maintain high-quality architecture documentation, integration specifications, data mappings, and deployment runbooks to support ongoing platform support and evolution. Demonstrable experience identifying, troubleshooting, and remediating performance issues within enterprise Power Platform environments. Strong understanding of enterprise integration architecture, including REST APIs, data distribution patterns, and system interoperability. Strong Agile delivery experience, working within structured project and programme environments. Experience working on HR, workforce management, talent management, compensation, or organisational change programmes. Background within financial services or other highly regulated industries. Power BI experience, particularly around operational reporting and compliance dashboards. Knowledge of Java-based API services and enterprise integration frameworks. Familiarity with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms. Microsoft Power Platform certifications would be advantageous.
