Power Platform Strategist

Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as a Power Platform Strategist. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that make a difference for our country.

 

The Planet Technologies West Region is looking for a Power Platform Strategist. The successful candidate's skills bridge Power Platform development, business solutioning, and the human experience of technology. The successful candidate likely has a work history as a developer who speaks Power Platform as a primary language and is a business analyst at heart. They have a flexible mindset and demeanor that allows them to "run the mile they are in," meaning they navigate work with a deep trust of their core problem solving abilities even when encountering unfamiliar, difficult, or ambiguous contexts, which brings them and their teammates across all types of finish lines.

Essential Functions

• Be a strategic and technical leader in Power Platform.
• Define and manage technical strategy on Power Platform projects and effectively communicate that strategy to leadership and Project Teams
• Possess passion of knowledge of the breadth and depth of the ever-evolving Power Platform ecosystem, and deploys that deep understanding in challenging thought work with Clients (e.g., Power Platform visioning, strategy development, governance, relationship management, etc.)
• Facilitate cross-area, integrated project strategies and executions with other teams, e.g., cloud engineering, modern workplace, development, security and compliance teams
• Champion Power Platform's citizen developer culture by fluently connecting the division's Power Platform work with IT transformation and organizational change management factors and teams
• Identify gaps and proactively coach division and Project Team members to keep our Power Platform approaches current and effective
• Collaborate and share knowledge across divisions of Planet Technology to deepen our practice in this area
• Must be able and willing to work within Pacific or Mountain work hours.

• Meets with Clients in discovery, planning/design, and training/enablement contexts
• Can perform as well as facilitate others in the design, development, and implementation of solutions, e.g.,
• Solution envisioning and requirements analysis, including fit/gap analysis
• Security strategy, compliance strategy, data migration strategy, and application lifecycle management
• Develop using out of the box product features, custom development, and/or use of third party tools
• Perform tasks across the full development lifecycle, e.g., discovery, planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance
• Create solutions that balance best practice with Client requirements, preferences, and needs
• Produces clear and accurate documentation

Strategic and Technical Leadership

• 5-7+ years experience, including Power Platform development, and consulting contexts.
• Takes responsibility for a team's technical delivery, regardless of personally performing the technical work
• Naturally identifies gaps and coaches Project Team members without being asked
• Comfortable delegating tasks and can do so appropriately
• Communicates effectively when technical activities or needs evolve on a project
• Understands risk and can effectively identify and escalate risk
• Demonstrated ability to hold a vision and advocate for the types of work and approaches to work that a team or technical area should be or wants to be doing
• Demonstrated ability to generate and communicate opinions to management on the staffing, staff development, technical resources, and other factors needed for a team or technical area to succeed

Consulting Skills Required

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Handles constantly changing conditions with calm confidence
• High level of initiative and accountability for deliverables and deadlines
• Knows that developing heads down is ideal, but can still operate effectively when consulting conditions become reasonably chaotic
• Clear grasp on limits of personal knowledge, yet can comfortably navigate conversations that stretch these limits
• Confident asking for help
• Enjoys problem solving
• Likes to learn and naturally keeps aware of new developments in the field
• Welcoming personality
• A positive ‘can-do’ attitude with a strong commitment to customer support
• Establishes trust through actions
• Ability to communicate technical aspects to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• An active and proactive team member e.g., speaks up, shows up prepared

Technical Abilities

• Extensive skills in identifying and assessing a variety of business contexts, researching and determining solutions to problems, providing technical recommendations, and other business analysis skills, e.g.,
• Knows and uses an effective business analysis framework in their work
• Expertise in classic BA tools (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, other modeling tools a plus)
• Performs analysis of qualitative and quantitative data
• A plus is formal training or certification in business analysis
• In-depth functional knowledge and technical expertise in the Power Platform, including Power BI, PowerApps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Virtual Agents
• Confidently proficient in Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Virtual Agents
• Can leverage Dataverse, on-premise, and other data sources
• Able to work with Data Gateways and connectors and build custom connectors
• Comfortable working with Dataflows, PowerQuery ETL, and the Common Data Model
• Experience with SQL
• Comfortable working with XML, JSON, and Azure App Registrations
• Able to work with solutions and Azure DevOps sprints/pipelines across Dev, Test, and Prod environments
• Have an understanding of Microsoft licensing for different Power Platform solutions

• PL-600 - Power Solution Architect Expert
• PL-200 - Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
• A plus is proven additional technical proficiency some or all of our target areas, e.g., AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, AZ-204 - Azure Developer Associate, AZ-400 - DevOps Engineer Expert, MS-900 - Microsoft 365 Fundamentals, MB-910 - Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM), SC-900 - Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
• Experience with Microsoft and related technologies including: .NET, C#, Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, JavaScript, FetchXML, Data and 3rd party tools e.g., XRMToolBox, SOAPUI, VSCode, etc.; Able to read/write data using SOAP and REST API’s, including private API’s via Data Gateway and Azure KeyVault authentication
• Has a core set of cross-platform development skills and can easily pick up development roles on non-Power Platform projects if needed
• Ability to create nice looking presentations and other documentation that effectively visualizes concepts and ideas

Other Requirements

• Candidates must be US Citizens as this work entails working with State and Local Government Agencies.
• Travel: 0 - 25%
• Must be able and willing to work Pacific Time work hours