Power Platform Strategist

Job Overview

Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as a Power Platform Strategist. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that make a difference for our country.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a strategic and technical leader in Power Platform.
• Define and manage technical strategy on Power Platform projects and effectively communicate that strategy to leadership and Project Teams
• Possess passion of knowledge of the breadth and depth of the ever-evolving Power Platform ecosystem, and deploys that deep understanding in challenging thought work with Clients (e.g., Power Platform visioning, strategy development, governance, relationship management, etc.)
• Facilitate cross-area, integrated project strategies and executions with other teams, e.g., cloud engineering, modern workplace, development, security and compliance teams
• Champion Power Platform's citizen developer culture by fluently connecting the division's Power Platform work with IT transformation and organizational change management factors and teams
• Identify gaps and proactively coach division and Project Team members to keep our Power Platform approaches current and effective
• Collaborate and share knowledge across divisions of Planet Technology to deepen our practice in this area
• Must be able and willing to work within Pacific or Mountain work hours.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7+ years experience, including Power Platform development, and consulting contexts.
• Takes responsibility for a team's technical delivery, regardless of personally performing the technical work
• Naturally identifies gaps and coaches Project Team members without being asked
• Comfortable delegating tasks and can do so appropriately
• Communicates effectively when technical activities or needs evolve on a project
• Understands risk and can effectively identify and escalate risk
• Demonstrated ability to hold a vision and advocate for the types of work and approaches to work that a team or technical area should be or wants to be doing
• Demonstrated ability to generate and communicate opinions to management on the staffing, staff development, technical resources, and other factors needed for a team or technical area to succeed

Consulting Skills Required

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Handles constantly changing conditions with calm confidence
• High level of initiative and accountability for deliverables and deadlines
• Knows that developing heads down is ideal, but can still operate effectively when consulting conditions become reasonably chaotic
• Clear grasp on limits of personal knowledge, yet can comfortably navigate conversations that stretch these limits
• Confident asking for help
• Enjoys problem solving
• Likes to learn and naturally keeps aware of new developments in the field
• Welcoming personality
• A positive ‘can-do’ attitude with a strong commitment to customer support
• Establishes trust through actions
• Ability to communicate technical aspects to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• An active and proactive team member e.g., speaks up, shows up prepared

Technical Abilities

• Extensive skills in identifying and assessing a variety of business contexts, researching and determining solutions to problems, providing technical recommendations, and other business analysis skills, e.g.,
• Knows and uses an effective business analysis framework in their work
• Expertise in classic BA tools (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, other modeling tools a plus)
• Performs analysis of qualitative and quantitative data
• A plus is formal training or certification in business analysis
• In-depth functional knowledge and technical expertise in the Power Platform, incl