IT Power Platform Lead

Location: Dartford, Kent OR Manchester (Sale)

At Laing O'Rourke we believe in the Power of Experience. We need you to show us your Power Platforms leadership experience.

Are you an experience Power Platform Lead? Can you work in a Data and Analytics environment? Then you could be the ideal candidate for this opportunity. Our team operates as a centre for excellence of Power Platform Solutions.

You will oversee a Power Platform Specialist who will support you to deliver governance, design and deployment of standards. You will be;

• Maintain and evolve Power Platform governance, including application life cycle management; development standards, guidelines and guardrails; deployment standards; corporate branding; and certification.
• In conjunction with the Global Architecture team, identify opportunities to extend the Power Platform toolset and components to meet business requirements.
• Provide design assurance for visualizations built by product development teams
• Keep up to date of the Microsoft releases and identify opportunities to leverage within the business.

Can you support business teams and Power BI champions as a subject matter expert? The join our team to ensure developments are aligned to best practice guidelines. Do you enjoy working with BI Architects and Engineers to enable self-service for business teams? How about building and maintaining relationships with key user communities? Then apply today.

You will be leading key activities in power platform governance, user community support, solutions development and User skills development.

Do you have the following knowledge and skills?

• Extensive experience in the Microsoft Power Platform, e.g. PowerBI, PowerApps, Power Automate.
• Experience developing new PowerApps model and canvas driven apps as well as enhancing existing apps, including the use of Dataverse as a data source.
• Automating business processes with Microsoft Power Automate.
• Ability to create custom connectors for Microsoft Power Platform.
• Experience with API or Rest services integrations.
• Understanding of how to implement solutions with multiple data sources.
• Providing Power BI reports and dashboards development and support.
• Good solid understanding of creating SQL Server database tables and stored procedures.
• Experience working on agile projects.
• Great communication skills; ability to tailor your message and language to audience
• Strong analytical skills ability to translate complex business requirements in a solid advice to the customer.
• Ability to work in dynamic, multi-functional teams within organization and its ecosystem
• Demonstrable working experience in a business analyst/software engineering/technical engineer position.

Desired Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified and/or undergraduate degree in related field.

About us: 
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia. 

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients. 

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace. 

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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