Job Title: Senior Power Platform & Apps Engineer

Job Type: 6-month contract (1080 hours, approximately 27 weeks)

Location: 100% remote (must reside and be legally entitled to work in Canada)

Rate: $90/hr Inc.

Job Overview

Our client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Power Platform & Apps Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise business applications, automations, and AI-powered agents. The successful candidate will take ownership of end-to-end solutions across Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages, and Copilot Studio. This individual will combine strong low-code/no-code expertise with hands-on software development and Azure integration capabilities.

This is a senior technical role requiring someone who can lead solution architecture, establish development standards, oversee application lifecycle management (ALM), and help advance the organization's adoption of AI-enabled business solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Design & Development

- Lead requirements gathering and technical design sessions with business stakeholders.
- Develop canvas and model-driven Power Apps, Power Pages sites, and other Power Platform solutions.
- Design and manage Dataverse data models.
- Build Power Automate cloud flows with appropriate error handling, retry policies, and authentication.
- Determine when to leverage low-code capabilities versus custom development.

2. Custom Development & Integrations

- Develop Dataverse plug-ins and custom APIs using C#.
- Develop custom connectors and integrate REST APIs.
- Work with Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Hubs, and webhooks.
- Optimize integrations, data synchronization, and API performance.

3. AI & Copilot Solutions

- Design and develop AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Integrate agents with Dataverse, Power Automate, and enterprise systems.
- Evaluate when to use Copilot Studio versus Microsoft Foundry.
- Implement appropriate AI guardrails, testing,



and monitoring.

4. ALM, Governance & Operations

- Manage application lifecycle management, solution packaging, and deployment pipelines.
- Establish CI/CD processes using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Define setting strategies, security roles, and data loss prevention policies.
- Support Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) governance.
- Monitor application performance and support production incident resolution.

5. Technical Leadership

- Establish coding, documentation, and development standards.
- Review technical designs and code.
- Mentor developers and citizen makers.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, enterprise architecture, security, and data teams.

Required Qualifications

- 6+ years of experience developing business applications.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience delivering production Microsoft Power Platform solutions.
- Strong experience with Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), Power Automate, Microsoft Dataverse and Power Fx
- C# development experience, including Dataverse plug-ins and custom APIs.
- Experience integrating REST APIs, custom connectors, OAuth, and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Azure experience, including Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, or Key Vault.
- Experience with ALM, Power Platform CLI, CI/CD, and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Understanding of Power Platform governance, security, environments, and licensing.
- Hands-on experience building AI agents using Copilot Studio or equivalent generative AI solutions.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

- Microsoft Power Platform certifications.
- Experience with Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or AI Builder.
- Power Pages development and external user authentication.
- Power BI integration and reporting.
- Dynamics 365 customization.
- Power Automate Desktop / RPA experience.
- Experience migrating legacy SharePoint, Access, InfoPath, or Nintex solutions.
- Experience working in regulated industries.

📌 Senior Power Platform Engineer (Canada)
🏢 PeopleToGo
📍 Canada