Power Platform/D365 Lead

Job Title: Power Platform/D365 Lead
Location: Henrico, VA (5 Days onsite/week; would be willing discuss/consider telework after a few months of on-site work)
Duration: 6 months Contract to Hire
Interview mode: 1st round Virtual Interview followed by an In-Person interview if deemed necessary.

About The Role:

• 60%: Develop, test, maintain and document Microsoft Power Platform and D365 solutions
• Deliver all development and test applications and results to agreed upon specifications in agreed upon time frames (or coordinate with supervisor in advance if time frames do not appear to be able to be met).
• Conduct thorough testing and document results.
• Identify and implement best practices for naming conventions, environment strategies, security and application life-cycle management.
• Implement all applications such that the applications and associated architecture and integrations are performing well, secure, and are managed in a way that does not cause disruption or data integrity issues.
• Promote applications successfully through appropriate environments while maintaining proper change control (including documentation and rollback procedures)
• Produce technical documentation that is suitable for application support.
• 20%: Mentor and guide DPOR staff in the development and use of solutions using the Power Platform / D365 tool and provide technical consultation, training and guidance on best practices, solution design and governance standards.
• 10%: Collaborates with business users and IT leads to understand and document solution requirements and functionality. Develops comprehensive solution documentation, including operational support manuals, user guides, workflow diagrams and training materials.
• 10%: Actively coordinates with the Agency that provisions Client's Power Platform and D365 Environments to administer the environments.
• Engages with appropriate Agency and Client's personnel in agreed upon timeframe to ensure that all assigned applications are running appropriately, securely and in a performant manner.
• Verifies that application data, integrations and environments are properly secured, backed up, retained and recoverable in accordance with approved backup schedules and disaster recovery standards.

Skill Matrix: Skill Required Amount of Experience Experience Power Platform Experience - specifically Power Apps - canvas and model driven apps, Dataverse, Power Automate and Power Pages Required 5 Years D365 Customer Service Module Required 3 Years Role-based security configuration in Power Platform and D365 Required 3 Years Working experience with solution management (managed / unmanaged), environmental variables and reusable components Required 3 Years Working knowledge of SharePoint Online architecture and security fundamentals Required 3 Years HTML/CSS/Javascript for UI customizations Required 2 Years Experience with Agile delivery, backlog refinement and stakeholder communication Required 2 Years Working knowledge of solution architecture, data modeling and performant querying, Azure functions and API integration Required 3 Years Working knowledge of custom components, reusability patterns and custom connectors Required 3 Years Experience implementing accessibility compliance (Section 508/WCAG) Required 1 Years CI/CD experience (Power Platform Pipelines / Git Hub) Required 2 Years Unit Testing and test automation Required 2 Years DevOps Tools Required 2 Years Experience with security, governance and environment strategy (DLP, role-based security, least privilege) Required 2 Years Experience mentoring and training others Required 2 Years Strong communication, problem-solving, strategy, documentation and cross-team collaboration skills Required 3 Years