MS(MICROSOFT) POWER PLATFORM DEVELOPER

Job Title: MS(MICROSOFT) POWER PLATFORM DEVELOPER Location: 2 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, New Jersey Job Type: Contract Duration: 2+ Years Work schedule: Normal business hours Monday-Friday 8-5 Pay Rate: $60 to $70 per hour DESCRIPTION OF WORK (SCOPE OF WORK) ERAD currently hosts Cognos and Microsoft Power Platform technologies to provide data, reporting and application development to various departments in an Agency. It is anticipated that this platform will be exploited to a much greater extent in the near future to address all aspects of corporate reporting needs and application development which enables the organization to make decisions that achieve better outcomes, flexible deployment options, and to enable to easily scale analytics to meet changing business needs. The successful candidate may work independently as well as with both consultant and staff resources of different units and departments throughout the Agency under the direction of project manager to deliver work projects including but not limited to: JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: New development: Working with PA technical manager, responsible for understanding and documenting business requirements, providing project plans for new implementation, develop, test and deploy solutions to prod environment following PA processes for tracking user requirements, project development status and testing and deploying solutions following change/release management process. Systems Testing and Deployment – Responsible for unit and system integration testing, coordinating with business users for user acceptance testing and getting sign off from business users to implement solutions in the production for any new enhancements or development following PA’s change/release management process. Systems Support – Provide maintenance, enhancements and support of platform making sure the stability of applications is maintained by resolving any data issues, user help tickets in timely manner and provide on-call availability for off-hour problem resolution. Environment Support - Maintenance of Non-prod and Prod Cognos environments making sure the stability of these environments is always maintained by applying any required patching and upgrades as required. System administration - Provide system administration for installation and configurations of different components of Cognos platform, upgrades and responsible to maintain and establish user accounts, security profiles, controlling access to applications and reports following the process. Troubleshooting and Problem Management and Resolution - Logging, documenting, tracking and resolving system problems while ensuring ongoing data integrity with any and all interfaces and/or systems. Disaster Recovery Support – Defining, in conjunction with the Port Authority, the scope of periodic disaster recovery tests. Coordinating with other Port Authority staff and third parties to ensure all required tasks are covered for these tests. Documentation and Training - Responsible for providing all documentation needed for the continued operation and management of the system and for any new implementations that is accurate and available and in compliance with PA Standards. Provide training to end users on any new functionality of the application or platform by providing user guides. MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum 8 years of IT experience with design, development and testing applications using any other technologies, programming languages and databases. Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as C#, C++, JSON, Python, JavaScript, SQL, etc. Minimum 5 years of working with Microsoft Power Platform or Dynamics 365 CRM technologies. Work experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) and/or Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment. Hands-on experience with Power Apps and Power Platform technical solutions. Proficiency in Power BI development, including report and dashboard creation. Strong understanding of data modeling and data visualization concepts. Experience with SQL for data manipulation and extraction. Knowledge of Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) for creating calculations Familiarity with data warehouse concepts Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related fields Any certification in related technologies is preferred.