Role: Power Platform Technical Lead

Location: Remote

Shift Hours: 1400 to 2300 hours IST

Job Type: Full-time

Experience: 8+ years

Role Purpose The Power Platform Technical Lead is the senior technical authority for Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE),

Dataverse and the wider Power Platform. The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership,

defining standards, reviewing code, owning the ALM model and ensuring that everything we build on the platform is scalable, secure and production-ready. The Lead works closely with the Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Solution Architects and the IT Applications Developer team.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership in D365 & Power Platform

- Act as technical authority for Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform solutions, owning architecture

decisions, design patterns and non-functional requirements.
- Mentor IT Applications Developers and citizen makers; raise the technical bar through coaching, design reviews and pairing.
- Translate business requirements into well-architected Dataverse data models, app designs and integration patterns.

Solution Management with Native Git
- Own the Dataverse Git integration strategy: branch model, solution segmentation, folder structure, commit hygiene and developer onboarding.
- Maintain repository standards in Azure DevOps Repos (branch policies, PR templates, required reviewers, build validation).
- Enforce solution layering, managed-properties discipline and unmanaged-customisation block policies.

Solution Deployment & Versioning

- Design and operate deployments through native Power Platform Pipelines (in PPAC) and complementary Azure

DevOps (ADO) pipelines for code-first artefacts.
- Define environment strategy (Dev / Build / Test / UAT / Pre-Prod / Prod) and the promotion path for each solution stream.
- Govern release versioning, release notes (incl. Copilot-assisted generation), approval gates and hotfix workflows.

Flow & Agent Management

- Provide design and run-time governance for Cloud Flows, Desktop Flows and Copilot/agent flows: connection

references, workplace variables, error handling, performance, throttling.




- Define standards for service-principal-owned flows, sharing models and DLP-compliant connector usage.

Infrastructure as Code Terraform

- Maintain Terraform modules for the Azure resources that support Power Platform (resource groups, service

principals, Key Vaults, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Storage, App Insights).
- Review and approve Terraform pull requests; enforce state-management and module-versioning standards.

Dynamics CRM Plugins & Extensibility
- Design, review and maintain Dataverse plugins, custom APIs, custom workflow activities and PCF components in C#/.NET.
- Set standards for plugin performance (transactions, depth, ILogger, tracing service) and review for security risk.

Code Review Standards

- Be the named code reviewer for high-impact Power Platform, Dataverse and Azure-adjacent changes.
- Author and continuously improve coding standards covering C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, Power Fx, Dataverse

plugins and Logic Apps.
- Champion the use of solution checker, Power Platform CLI, ESLint/Prettier and SonarCloud.

D365 Security Management & Configuration
- Design Dataverse security roles, business units, teams, field-level security and hierarchy security.
- Govern security-role version control through solutions and ensure audit-grade traceability of permission changes.

Azure Foundations
- Resource Groups: define naming, tagging and access conventions; review RG-level RBAC.
- Service Principals: govern lifecycle (creation, secret/cert rotation, expiry monitoring) and least-privilege

assignments.
- Key Vault: manage secret storage standards, access policies / RBAC, integration with Logic Apps, Functions, ADO

and Power Platform connection references. Pipeline Deployment for Logic Apps Azure Functions

- Own the CI/CD pipelines for Logic Apps (Standard and Consumption)



and Azure Functions used as Dataverse

extensions or integration glue.
- Define artefact, slot-swap and parameterisation strategy across environments.

Integration Tooling

- Use Postman and SoapUI to design, document and regression-test REST/SOAP integrations to/from Dataverse,

F&O; and third-party systems.

- Maintain shared collections and environments for the developer team.

Programming Languages
- C# (.NET 8+) plugins, custom APIs, Azure Functions.
- TypeScript / JavaScript client-side scripts, PCF components, Logic Apps inline code.
- Power Fx formula standards across canvas apps and Power Automate.

Use of AI

- Use GitHub Copilot, Copilot in Power Apps / Power Automate / Power Pages and Copilot Studio to accelerate

delivery and standardise patterns.
- Govern responsible AI use data handling, prompt patterns, model selection and review of AI-generated code

before merge.
- Identify opportunities to deploy Copilot Studio agents for internal user support and internal IT operations.

Essential Skills & Experience

- 6+ years in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM / Dataverse ecosystem, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior

engineering role.
- Deep, hands-on experience with Dataverse data modelling, security and extensibility.
- Production experience with native Power Platform Pipelines and Dataverse Git integration.
- Strong C# / .NET, TypeScript and Power Fx; comfortable in both pro-code and low-code stacks.
- Demonstrable Azure experience: Resource Groups, RBAC, Service Principals, Key Vault, Logic Apps, Azure

Functions, App Insights.
- Hands-on Terraform for the supporting Azure footprint.
- Experience leading code reviews and authoring engineering standards.
- Proficient with Postman and SoapUI for integration testing.

Desirable

- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600).
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) or DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
- Experience with Dual Write between F&O; and Dataverse.
- Exposure to Copilot Studio and Microsoft AI Builder.
- Experience in a regulated, multi-country enterprise.

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