Platform Engineer
On site
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Freelance
28-10-2024
Job Specifications
What you’ll be doing
• As a member of our service capabilities team, you will be responsible for safeguarding platform adoption, maintaining our governance controls and enforcing standards and best practice across our pro-dev and citizen-dev communities.
• Implementing our platform enablement and adoption strategy for the Power Platform, working with our COE SMEs to build foundational service components to support new service design patterns and evergreen capabilities to enable projects/squads to develop on these.
• Working collaboratively with SMEs from Microsoft, our 3rd party partners and from within the business to assess evergreen change for the Power Platform, identifying and impact assessing changes to key service components in-use and where applicable, overseeing the testing and implementation ahead of general release. This includes the Microsoft Wave Releases and product specific updates.
• Supporting our Power Platform citizen development community of practice, overseeing governance and support, facilitating learning and development, providing advice and best practice guidance and generally maturing capability in this area.
• Supporting our platform operations, including capacity management, service management, environment management, user and licensing management and security controls.
• Acting as a gatekeeper and safety-net for our Power Platform service, supporting COE leadership by proactively identifying risks and issues and intervening to prevent problems before they happen.
• Working with the COE team to document standards and best practices for adoption and implementation of Power Platform components and services, ensuring all documentation is accurate, consistent and up-to—date and in line with latest features and best-practice guidance from Microsoft.
• Leading and mentoring COE colleagues to support their development and to advance collective skills and capabilities within the COE.
We need you to have
• Relevant experience in designing, developing, and deploying solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform, including Dynamics 365 (Customer Service, Sales and Customer Insights), Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power BI, preferably in a Technical Specialist or Technical Lead role.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in applying best practices and standards for developing and maintaining secure, scalable, and performant solutions on the Microsoft Power Platform, with a deep understanding of its capabilities and limitations and how to leverage them to meet business requirements.
• Knowledge and experience in designing, implementing and managing complex Power Platform environment strategies to support coexistence and effective route-to-live, preferably using automated pipeline deployment via Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge and experience implementing the many integration options and methods for connecting the Microsoft Power Platform with other Microsoft and 3rd party services and data sources, including Microsoft 365 and Azure services.
• Knowledge of the licensing and governance models for the Microsoft Power Platform and how to optimize the usage and cost of the platform.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, demonstrate the value proposition of the Microsoft Power Platform and provide guidance and support for adoption and change management.
About the Company
KBC Technologies is a 'ISO Certified' Global IT Solutions, Services and Outsourcing Company with it's major focus in IT Secondment and Managed Services domain to support our clients in expanding their business operations on global basis. KBC has it's registered offices in UAE, Qatar, Oman, KSA, Egypt UK, Poland, Australia and India with operations spread across 14 plus countries across globe. We primarily focus on providing IT Solutions, IT Consulting & Outsourcing across different verticals like BFSI, Telecom, Government, ... Know more
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