Power Platform Architect

About the role

Join our team as a Power Platform Architect, where you will play a crucial role in shaping the technical direction of our organization. You will work across services, programs, and portfolios, collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure the quality and consistency of architecture decisions. Your expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, and AI services will be instrumental in guiding our technology strategy and improving our architecture practice. Enjoy a supportive and collaborative environment, opportunities for professional development, and a range of benefits including private medical insurance and a discretionary company bonus. Key missions: As a Power Platform Architect, you will be responsible for the quality and consistency of significant architecture decisions, guiding the use of Microsoft Power Platform and related technologies.. You will shape guardrails, reference architectures, and assurance proportionate to risk, including identity, information protection, integration, resilience, operability, and responsible AI.. You will coach architects, improve architecture practice, and create the conditions for multidisciplinary teams and suppliers to make timely, evidence-based decisions. Profile: - Commercial awareness, including the architectural implications of sourcing, licensing, suppliers, contracts, portability and exit strategies - Experience shaping strategy and roadmaps that connect technical, user, operational and organisational perspectives - Substantial experience leading technical architecture for complex, high-risk or organisation-wide digital services and technology portfolios specifically in Microsoft products - Ability to set technical direction across multiple teams and to make or assure decisions that balance user need, strategy, security, delivery feasibility, cost and service sustainability - Strong understanding of architecture governance, including decision records, standards, risk-based assurance, service assessments and management of exceptions and technical debt - Ability to communicate architecture clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and build support for high-impact decisions where evidence, risk or stakeholder views conflict - Experience designing and governing cloud-based application ecosystems, including enterprise platforms, APIs, identity, data and integration services - Evidence of coaching architects, developing professional capability and improving practice across teams or communities - Architecture experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Azure and associated governance and integration patterns - Experience assuring AI-enabled or agentic solutions, including grounding, tool access, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring and responsible AI controls - Understanding of regulated, justice, public-sector or security-conscious environments - Relevant architecture, cloud or Microsoft certifications, or equivalent practical experience - Experience contributing to portfolio investment decisions, technology strategy or enterprise architecture