Power Platform and Azure DevOps Expert - remote from EU

<p>This is an experienced architect-level position. The appointed resource will be expected to serve as the Power Platform administrator, administering and supporting approximately 100 Power Platform environments. A significant part of the role will involve establishing guidelines and providing direction to approximately 150 developers across multiple teams and throughout the organization. At least 2 years of demonstrable experience is required for each of the following mandatory requirements.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p>REQUIREMENTS</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Proven experience as a Power Platform architect, administrator or DevOps lead in an enterprise environment.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Demonstratable experience of leading multiple teams.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Deep practical knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform suite (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Strong experience with Azure DevOps, including pipeline creation, variable groups, service connections, and release management.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Strong experience with Git-based ALM for Power Platform, including solution unpacking/packing and automated versioning.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset toward governance and automation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional technical and business teams.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Preferred certifications (<strong>non-mandatory</strong>):</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">•&nbsp;&nbsp; Microsoft Certified: PL-600 (Power Platform Solution Architect)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">•&nbsp;&nbsp; Microsoft Certified: PL-400 (Power Platform Developer)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">•&nbsp;&nbsp; Microsoft Certified: AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">•&nbsp;&nbsp; Microsoft Certified: AZ-104 (Azure Administrator)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Extensive hands-on experience administering enterprise-scale Power Platform environments across a full DTAP pipeline (DEV, TEST, ACC/UAT, PRE-PROD, PROD).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience designing enterprise-scale governance and ALM strategies, including DLP policies, managed environments, and environment groups.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Demonstrated expertise in Dynamics 365 solution architecture, including advanced knowledge of solution layering, dependencies, patches, upgrades, and holding solutions.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Proven experience decomposing large, monolithic Dynamics 365 solutions with multiple inter-dependencies into modular, independently deployable units.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience designing and operating Git-based ALM workflows for Power Platform, including full solution unpacking/packing, automated versioning, and repository-only deployments.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform solution deployment, connection reference activation, and flow management.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience managing Dynamics 365 security, including security roles, business units, application users.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Highly valued but not mandatory:</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps pipelines for secure credential, secret, and certificate management.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience deploying master and configuration data across environments using Configuration Migration Tool, PAC CLI, KingswaySoft SSIS Integration Toolkit, or equivalent tooling.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience with enterprise Dynamics 365 implementations (&gt;500 users) in regulated environments requiring strict auditability and controlled deployments.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Experience managing Power Pages and Dynamics 365 AI features security, including user experience profiles, table permissions, and portal web roles.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><em>Power Platform Administration &amp; Governance</em></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Administers multiple Power Platform environments, covering strategy design, lifecycle management, environment groups, and managed environments governance.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Designs and implements Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies with environmentspecific governance, connector classification, and compliance best practices.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Establishes and maintains Power Platform governance standards, development and deployment standards, and monitors platform usage, capacity, and health.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Dynamics 365 Solution Architecture &amp; ALM</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Demonstrates expert understanding of managed vs unmanaged solutions, solution segmentation, dependencies, patches, upgrades, holding solutions, and solution layering concepts.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Identifies and resolves solution layer conflicts, customization precedence issues, and dependency chains across environments.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Analyses large Dynamics 365 implementations, identifies cross-solution dependencies, and decomposes monolithic solutions into modular deployment units to minimise risk.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Manages multi-team development environments, multiple release streams, feature branching strategies, hotfix releases, and parallel development approaches.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Source Control &amp; Git Integration</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Manages Azure Repos with branching strategies, pull request governance, and code review processes for Power Platform development.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Implements solution unpacking/packing using Power Platform Build Tools and PAC CLI, ensuring fully repository-based deployments with no manual production releases.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Deployment Automation</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration for environment promotion of Power Platform solutions.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Automates deployment of Dynamics 365 solutions, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate flows, environment variables, and connection references.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Automates connection reference deployment and activation, environmentspecific configuration, post-deployment validation, and connector authentication handling.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Manages automated activation of Power Automate flows, environment migration, service account configuration, and deployment validation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Master Data &amp; Environment Configuration Deployment </strong>(Highly valued but not mandatory)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Deploys configuration data, reference data, lookup data, security configuration, and application configuration across environments.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Uses Configuration Migration Tool, PAC CLI, deployment settings files, KingswaySoft SSIS Integration Toolkit or other similar tools for deployment automation including .</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Synchronises master data across environments, maintains DTAP consistency, automates configuration deployment, and prevents manual configuration drift.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Security &amp; Access Management</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Applies deep knowledge of Dynamics 365 security roles, teams, business units, field-level security, record ownership models, and hierarchical security.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Manages service principals, application users, non-interactive access, API authentication, and least-privilege access models.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Configures Power Pages web roles, table permissions, authentication providers, external user access, API security, and portal governance. (valued but not mandatory)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Conducts security reviews, designs least-privileged access solutions, troubleshoots access issues, and supports audit and compliance requirements.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Builds CI/CD pipelines from scratch for Power Platform deployments, optimises existing pipelines, troubleshoots deployment failures, and standardises deployment frameworks.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Integrates Power Platform pipelines with Azure AD, service principals, Key Vault, and monitoring platforms within Azure DevOps. (valued but not mandatory)</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Azure Key Vault Integration (valued but not mandatory)</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Manages secure credential storage, certificates, managed identities, and service principals via Azure Key Vault.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Implements Key Vault linked variable groups, secret rotation practices, and credential-free deployment approaches in CI/CD pipelines.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Automated Quality Controls (valued but not mandatory)</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Creates automated pipelines for solution checker execution, code quality gates, dependency validation, deployment validation, security validation, and policy compliance checks.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Implements approval gates, deployment stage controls, segregation of duties, and release auditing.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Monitoring &amp; Operations</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Integrates deployments with Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Power Platform Admin Centre monitoring.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Implements alerting mechanisms, deployment health monitoring, production diagnostics, audit reporting, and disaster recovery and environment restore management.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Agile Collaboration</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Actively participates in SAFe Agile ceremonies, supporting backlog refinement, planning, and reviews.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Works with cross-functional teams including developers, analysts, and product owners to deliver governed, automated, and auditable Power Platform solutions.</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Delivery mode: Remote from EU with occasional visits</p><p>Only Eu Citizens can apply</p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p><p style="min-height: 1.7em;"></p> <br> <p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.nl/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Netherlands</a> on Arbeitnow</a>