Power Platform Technical Lead - Ottawa, Canada - Avanade

Avanade

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Come join us

Business growth has created this great new opportunity for a Power Platform Technical Lead to join Avanade's Productivity Studio in North America.

Working with a team of equally passionate technologists, this role will steer your professional career in the right direction.

The productivity studio hosts technologists who are energized and passionate about Power Platform and how it can be used to solve complex business problems and move our clients forward.

Together we do what matters.

What you'll do

You will collaborate with project teams in customizing, developing, integrating, and extending Power Platform to meet client needs.

Working with technology and design teams to support your clients, you will identify challenges on the horizon and support constant improvement.

As a Power Platform Technical Lead, you will be involved in all the project phases, from defining new technical architectures, proposing creative solutions in line with the company's value proposition, and providing support for the implementation of enterprise architecture based on the latest generation methodologies.

Lead projects, create collateral, coach, mentor and encourage on

- and off-shore team members

Be accountable for the overall quality of the engagements you lead
Identify, validate, and grow opportunities in strategic accounts by driving solutions aligned to Avanade's offerings, in partnership with the Avanade business development team
Provide handsonkeyboard services where required
Maintain your expertise in Power Platform, securing additional technical qualifications as required.
Keep up to date with market trends and competitive insights
Work with technical architects to successfully deliver compelling solutions that are cost competitive for our clients
Design secure data models using a variety of data sources (Dataverse, SharePoint, SQL, etc.
Serve as technical SME in workshops and discovery sessions
Leverage the most sophisticated tools to provide insights to crucial business decisions and embed Power Platform solutions in large digital transformation strategies.

Skills and experiences

Development and integration of solutions, including hands on experience with Power Apps (canvas & model driven), Power Automate, Dataverse, and SharePoint
Communicating and presenting complex information to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to mentor and train technical teams, onshore and offshore
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English
Strong working knowledge of Power Virtual Agents, Power BI, Portals, Teams, Viva, SQL, dataflows, Azure Functions, App Insights
Familiarity with code extensions such as custom connectors, PCF controls, PlugIns, and SPFx
Agile and Waterfall delivery models
The following certifications are beneficial:
PL-200: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
PL400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer
PL600: Power Platform Solution Architect
PL900: Power Platform Fundamentals
AZ900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

About you

You are as comfortable working with a technical team as you are with client business leaders, and you know how to build bridges between the two.
You have excellent communications skills, and are adept at mapping business needs to technology solutions and helping nontechnical audiences understand the benefits of these solutions.
You are excited about working with a global technology leader to solve businesscritical problems for some of the top companies in the world.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)
Realtime access to technical and skilled resources globally
Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth
Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return.

As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities.

You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise.

You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live.

It's all here, so take a closer look

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

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