Programmer/Developer

SCOPE OF WORK


The agency needs the service of a Power Platform Developer. The candidate will serve in the capacity of a Power Platform developer will communicate a well-defined vision of how IT and the business will align and make sure that everyone if following the same principles, methodologies, and support activities per the direction of agency management.


The specific focus of this candidate will be to ensure that new systems are built in a way that best ensures that functional requirements are met whilst also ensuring that service qualities (Performance, scalability, extensibility, maintainability, security, interoperability) for now and for the future are achievable. In addition, this role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining business solutions using Microsoft Power Platform tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents.


Their work typically involves creating custom business applications, automating workflows, integrating data sources, and building analytics dashboards. They also collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ensure the solutions meet business needs. Overall, a Power Platform developer plays a critical role in helping organizations to streamline their business processes and improve productivity.


Specific Services Required:


In the role of the Automation QA Engineer, the following services are required:
• Design and development of the core technology and architecture for Power Platform applications and solutions.
• Developing custom business applications using Power Apps (Canvas and Model Driven and Power Portals.
• Automating workflows and processes using Power Automate.
• Building custom connectors to integrate data sources with the Power Platform.
• Creating interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI.
• Developing and deploying chatbots using Power Virtual Agents.
• Develop intelligent document processing with AI Builder
• Providing technical guidance and support to end-users and stakeholders.
• Ensuring the security and compliance of Power Platform solutions.
• Collaborating with other developers and IT professionals to integrate Power Platform solutions with other enterprise systems.
• Developing custom APIs and plugins to extend the functionality of Power Platform tools.
• Conducting training and workshops to educate end-users on the use of Power Platform solutions.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver business and technical value.
• Must be very organized, pro-active, and self-directed. Must be able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Must have very strong abstract thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Must have very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Work with the Development Manager to establish goals and release quality while meeting requirements of projects.
• Work with management to supply input for key test automation decisions, as well as work estimation and resource planning.
• Provide guidance and training to team members.
• Assures the complementary synthesis of all standards, models, designs and methodologies recommended by the Enterprise Architects.
• Takes proactive escalation of system problems or design flaws to upper management before serious impact on ROI.
• Coordinates with the other architects on issues dealing with the quality flaws of the existing standards, especially security and performance issues.
• Ensures that the Technology Partners and development teams adhere to the principles and standards defined by IT
• Defines, Documents and communicates the strategy with Agile team.
• Interface with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders to determine their (evolving) needs.
• Reviews and assists in defining the environment configuration.
• Reviews all system requirements and ensures that this set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.
• Reviews software components and collaborates with development group, Product Owners, System Teams, and Operations to ensure best overall development strategies, best practices and techniques for development.
• Interfaces with the design and implementation teams, so that any problems arising during Development can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints.
• Ensures that a maximally robust development framework is developed.
• Responsible for Unit testing software prior to submitting to QA
• Ensures that all code libraries and artifacts are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.


REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE


For this position, the candidate shares experience and judgment with team to plan and accomplish goals, mentors less experienced staff, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. In addition, the agency requires:


An experience professional with demonstrating the following knowledge and skills:
• 3+ years Experience with building Power Portals and recent Power Pages including Liquid
• 3+ years Experience with building Power Apps (Model Driven Apps, Canvas Apps)
• 3+ years Experience with building Power Automate Flows
• 5+ years Experience with Web Application development including HTML, CSS, Javascript
• 5+ years Experience with C# development including Power Platform Plugins
• 5+ years Experience with development in Visual Studio
• 5+ years Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Involved in a minimum of two large scaled Agile software development projects
• Thorough understanding of development best practices in an Agile environment


Additional Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with code control/version/build tools e.g Azure DevOps
• Experience with AI Builder
• Experience with Power Virtual Agents
• Experience with Power BI
• Experience with Azure Blob and Azure Cognitive Services
• Experience with unit testing frameworks e.g Nunit
• Experience with XRM Toolkit
• Experience with Integrating with REST/SOAP API's and using Postman
• Experience with ASP.NET
• Experience with Javascript Frameworks e.g Jquery, Ext, React
• BS in Computer science, engineering, or technology-related baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, or commensurate experience.