Power Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Convert user stories from non-technical NIH teams into technical requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Quickly develop prototypes using Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.

• Transfer validated prototypes complete with documented requirements, business logic, and known limitations for production deployment and support.

• Construct builds utilizing Microsoft connectors, custom connectors, data pipelines, SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

• Collaborate with end users and process owners to define business logic, rules, exceptions, and edge cases.

• Recognize opportunities for value-added automation, reporting, and intelligent routing without excessive development.

• Establish safety guardrails in agentic workflows, incorporating human-in-the-loop approvals, scoped data access, logging, and escalation paths.

• Conduct brief knowledge sessions to empower teams in using and enhancing the solutions.

• Work in partnership with client leads, business operators, consultants, NIH personnel, scientists, federal agencies, and supporting partners.

• Engage in a rapid-prototyping technical exercise and articulate build decisions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be US-based.

• Practical experience with Copilot Studio for building agents, linking them to organizational data, and implementing approvals, scoped data access, and failure handling.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps (canvas and model-driven), Power Automate cloud flows, and Dataverse.

• Strong expertise in standard, premium, and custom connectors, as well as HTTP and API integration.

• Experience with Power Platform solution lifecycle management, covering environments, solutions, source control, and transition from development to production.

• Proven experience in rapid prototyping, advancing from initial concept to working demo within days.

• Familiarity with SharePoint, including lists, libraries, permissions, and its application as a data layer.

• Experience with Microsoft Teams in relation to apps, bots, and workflows.

• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 Copilot, including extending it with agents.

• Understanding of Power Platform governance, DLP policies, role-based access, and Center of Excellence strategies.

• Background in federal environments, particularly with GCC tenants and compliance with NIST AI RMF and NIH/HHS standards.

• Valuable skills in Power BI, Azure integration (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Logic Apps), or knowledge of Python and SQL.

• Awareness of Section 508 accessibility is beneficial.

• Background or experience in biomedical, bioinformatics, or life sciences is advantageous.

• Exceptional communication abilities and capacity to lead brief knowledge sessions with non-technical stakeholders.

• Availability for client meetings during standard Eastern business hours, approximately 8:00 AM–6:00 PM EST.

• Professional working proficiency in English across reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

• Completion of a full background check is required if selected.

• A short hands-on technical exercise will be part of the interview process.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work opportunity within the US.

• 40 hours/week contract position.

• Opportunity to have a significant impact on scientific discovery and public health.

• Chance to create tools utilized by real teams.

• Engage at the intersection of health, data, and AI within a mission-driven environment.

• Participate in knowledge sessions and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• Immediate start date with rolling proposal reviews.