Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics Expert - remote from EU

AlmavivA de Belgique

Contract type

Ongoing

Work mode

Remote · Europe

Experience

Mid-level · 2+ years

Job description

Architect-level Power Platform administrator and governance lead for AlmavivA de Belgique, administering around 100 Power Platform environments and directing roughly 150 developers across multiple teams. The role focuses on enterprise-scale governance, Dynamics 365 solution architecture, ALM and CI/CD automation.

At a glance

Work mode: Remote · Europe

What you'll do

Administer multiple Power Platform environments, covering strategy design, lifecycle management, environment groups, and managed environments governance.
Design and implement Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies with environment-specific governance, connector classification, and compliance best practices.
Establish and maintain Power Platform governance standards, development and deployment standards, and monitor platform usage, capacity, and health.
Demonstrate expert understanding of managed vs unmanaged solutions, solution segmentation, dependencies, patches, upgrades, holding solutions, and solution layering concepts.
Identify and resolve solution layer conflicts, customization precedence issues, and dependency chains across environments.
Analyse large Dynamics 365 implementations, identify cross-solution dependencies, and decompose monolithic solutions into modular deployment units to minimise risk.
Manage multi-team development environments, multiple release streams, feature branching strategies, hotfix releases, and parallel development approaches.
Manage Azure Repos with branching strategies, pull request governance, and code review processes for Power Platform development.
Implement solution unpacking/packing using Power Platform Build Tools and PAC CLI, ensuring fully repository-based deployments with no manual production releases.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration for environment promotion of Power Platform solutions.
Automate deployment of Dynamics 365 solutions, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate flows, environment variables, and connection references.
Automate connection reference deployment and activation, environment-specific configuration, post-deployment validation, and connector authentication handling.
Manage automated activation of Power Automate flows, environment migration, service account configuration, and deployment validation.
Apply deep knowledge of Dynamics 365 security roles, teams, business units, field-level security, record ownership models, and hierarchical security.
Manage service principals, application users, non-interactive access, API authentication, and least-privilege access models.
Conduct security reviews, design least-privileged access solutions, troubleshoot access issues, and support audit and compliance requirements.
Build CI/CD pipelines from scratch for Power Platform deployments, optimise existing pipelines, troubleshoot deployment failures, and standardise deployment frameworks.
Integrate deployments with Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Power Platform Admin Centre monitoring.
Implement alerting mechanisms, deployment health monitoring, production diagnostics, audit reporting, and disaster recovery and environment restore management.
Actively participate in SAFe Agile ceremonies, supporting backlog refinement, planning, and reviews.
Work with cross-functional teams including developers, analysts, and product owners to deliver governed, automated, and auditable Power Platform solutions.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related field.
Proven experience as a Power Platform architect, administrator or DevOps lead in an enterprise environment.
Demonstrable experience of leading multiple teams.
Deep practical knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform suite (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages).
Strong experience with Azure DevOps, including pipeline creation, variable groups, service connections, and release management.
Strong experience with Git-based ALM for Power Platform, including solution unpacking/packing and automated versioning.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset toward governance and automation.
Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional technical and business teams.
Extensive hands-on experience administering enterprise-scale Power Platform environments across a full DTAP pipeline (DEV, TEST, ACC/UAT, PRE-PROD, PROD).
Experience designing enterprise-scale governance and ALM strategies, including DLP policies, managed environments, and environment groups.
Demonstrated expertise in Dynamics 365 solution architecture, including advanced knowledge of solution layering, dependencies, patches, upgrades, and holding solutions.
Proven experience decomposing large, monolithic Dynamics 365 solutions with multiple inter-dependencies into modular, independently deployable units.
Experience designing and operating Git-based ALM workflows for Power Platform, including full solution unpacking/packing, automated versioning, and repository-only deployments.
Experience building and maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform solution deployment, connection reference activation, and flow management.
Experience managing Dynamics 365 security, including security roles, business units, application users.
At least 2 years of demonstrable experience for each mandatory requirement.
Only EU citizens can apply.

Nice to have

Microsoft Certified: PL-600 (Power Platform Solution Architect)
Microsoft Certified: PL-400 (Power Platform Developer)
Microsoft Certified: AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert)
Microsoft Certified: AZ-104 (Azure Administrator)
Experience integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps pipelines for secure credential, secret, and certificate management.
Experience deploying master and configuration data across environments using Configuration Migration Tool, PAC CLI, KingswaySoft SSIS Integration Toolkit, or equivalent tooling.
Experience with enterprise Dynamics 365 implementations (>500 users) in regulated environments requiring strict auditability and controlled deployments.
Experience managing Power Pages and Dynamics 365 AI features security, including user experience profiles, table permissions, and portal web roles.
Deploying configuration data, reference data, lookup data, security configuration, and application configuration across environments.
Using Configuration Migration Tool, PAC CLI, deployment settings files, KingswaySoft SSIS Integration Toolkit or other similar tools for deployment automation.
Synchronising master data across environments, maintaining DTAP consistency, automating configuration deployment, and preventing manual configuration drift.
Configuring Power Pages web roles, table permissions, authentication providers, external user access, API security, and portal governance.
Integrating Power Platform pipelines with Azure AD, service principals, Key Vault, and monitoring platforms within Azure DevOps.
Managing secure credential storage, certificates, managed identities, and service principals via Azure Key Vault.
Implementing Key Vault linked variable groups, secret rotation practices, and credential-free deployment approaches in CI/CD pipelines.
Creating automated pipelines for solution checker execution, code quality gates, dependency validation, deployment validation, security validation, and policy compliance checks.
Implementing approval gates, deployment stage controls, segregation of duties, and release auditing.

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