Power Platform Architect

Power Platform Architect Location: Saint Paul, MN (Hybrid) Job Description: Client is seeking a Software Architect with technical leadership in architecture, implementation, data migration, training, project and technical documentation, and limited term post-production support sufficient to transition business and IT staff to growing and maintaining the developed architecture and applications. The resource will have experience developing portals and applications using Microsoft Power Platform, a product management approach, and iterative methodologies. The Commerce Department is transitioning numerous existing business processes from Microsoft Access-based databases and applications to Power Platform, SharePoint, and DataVerse. The department would like to invest in building an IT foundation for IT services to quickly scale and deliver additional solutions for the business. At a high level, the resource will collaborate with State IT developers and Commerce business partners to produce development standards and frameworks; deployment of pipelines and processes; produce common architectural elements and stylesheets to be reused in future development efforts; and create security roles and governance plan for Power Platform solutions in the organization. Responsibilities: Develop software with Power Platform on Azure Government Cloud as the primary infrastructure. Lead architecture and design discussions and decisions with business partners, business analysts, project management, and junior developers. Configure data gateway(s) to write and retrieve data between any Power Platform components and an Azure Managed MS SQL database and/or Azure BLOB / File Storage Coordinate with Power Platform administrators to set up user authentication for Power Platform and Office 365 components using Azure Active Directory. Participate on an agile-minded development team with other staff to design, code, test, deploy, and train staff. Assist with product backlog refinement, story development, and story sizing/estimating. Participate in sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. Build user interface(s) with Power Apps and/or Power Pages. Perform knowledge sharing/transfer with embedded Comm staff. Write or supply product technical architecture documentation. Transfer knowledge to State. Required Qualifications and Skills: Experience developing Microsoft Power Apps, model-driven and canvas apps. Experience in other Power Platform components like Power Automate and Power Pages. Experience using product/agile frameworks and methodologies. Experience in managing a dataset with various data sources, formats, and structures. Experience developing Microsoft Power BI reports and dashboards. Tableau or other visualization experience may substitute. Experience in mentoring other developers, particularly during Power Platform development. Experience gathering business requirements. Experience using people-centric UX design and best practices in product development. Experience designing a seamless user experience across devices. Experience designing a seamless user experience for multilingual support. Experience making applications ADA accessible to meet WCAG 2.1 standards. Experience developing automated build/deployment processes with a DevOps mindset. Job Type: Contract Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour Expected hours: 40 per week Work Location: Hybrid remote in St Paul, MN 55101