Power Platform & Copilot Studio Administrator

Ford • Dearborn, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Power Platform & Copilot Studio Administrator is responsible for the secure, scalable, and compliant administration of Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio). This role owns tenant governance, environment strategy, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), license management, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy, and platform monitoring. The administrator partners closely with security, compliance, and business stakeholders to enable citizen development safely, standardize best practices, and ensure platform reliability and performance.
Key responsibilities include defining and implementing strategies for Platform Governance & Security, Administration & Operations, Application Lifecycle Management, and AI adoption.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience performing Power Platform tenant administration with certification or equivalent background
• Understanding of low code development using Power Apps, Power Automate flows, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio agents
• Knowledge of citizens development, ALM strategies, security/compliance, and platform/operations management
• Experience with scripting languages and full stack development using programming languages such as Power Shell, Python, and C#
• Experience using and automating services for Microsoft 365 and including Power BI, SharePoint, Exchange, Office Apps, Entra Identity, and Microsoft Azure
• Deep understanding of AI technology including Large Language Models (LLMs), data grounding and knowledge sources, orchestration, agentic automation, MCP services, and responsible AI guardrails
• Understanding of agile project management, good communication, and team collaboration

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain tenant-wide settings and environment strategy for departments and citizens developed solutions within Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio (Dev/Test/Prod, sandbox, and business-unit environments)
• Design, implement, and enforce DLP policies for connectors and data classifications; regularly review exceptions and mitigate risk.
• Configure Copilot Studio policies including data grounding sources, prompts, plugins/actions, responsible AI guardrails, content moderation, and logging
• Administer Copilot Studio including setting up environments, security, channels (Teams, Web, Direct Line), data sources and implementing safety guardrails.
• Oversee licensing & capacity (per-user, per-app, pay-as-you-go, Copilot Studio credits, Dataverse database/file/log capacity), and forecast needs.
• Design and Implement ALM strategy for managed and unmanaged environments using pipelines and deployment automation
• Define standards and templates (solution structure, naming conventions, environments, connectors, data models)
• Partner with security and compliance to implement security requirements, protect sensitive data, and configure DLP settings
• Enable citizen developers with guardrails, training, office hours, and standardized templates/components
• Develop and maintain documentation: platform runbooks, standards, FAQs, and onboarding materials.
• Run periodic environment/app reviews and action admin notifications
• Review environment inventory, app/flow inventories, usage and activity, solution health
• Monitor service health, performance, and limits; proactively resolve incidents and collaborate with Microsoft Support as needed.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees