Senior Consultant - Power Platform CoE, ALM & Copilot Studio

Proactive Technology Management•Ferndale, MI

15h•Remote

About The Position

Lead the Power Platform Center of Excellence and Application Lifecycle Management lane of a 90-day governance engagement that turns a Fortune-class regulated enterprise’s unmanaged Power Platform and Copilot Studio estate into a governed, observable, ROI-tracked capability — and convert into a PTM Fusion full-time hire on successful delivery. This role is part of a 90-day governance program for a Fortune-class regulated enterprise client, with two delivery lanes running in parallel: Power Platform / Copilot Studio CoE & ALM and Microsoft Purview / M365 Compliance. The engagement is structured in two phases: Phase 1 — Discovery & Assess (30 days), involving inventory and risk-ranking of the estate, mapping current ALM, identity, and CoE Kit posture, quantifying Copilot Studio agent exposure, and delivering a prioritized governance backlog with measurable ROI. Phase 2 — Implement & Govern (60 days), focusing on standing up the CoE Kit, environment strategy, Power Platform DLP, ALM pipelines, operationalizing Copilot Studio agent governance, and enabling an Azure Monitor and Log Analytics observability surface. Close coordination with a Microsoft Purview / M365 compliance specialist is essential.

Requirements

5+ years delivering on Microsoft Power Platform in enterprise or mid-market environments, with at least 2 full lifecycles of CoE Kit deployment and operation.
Power Platform Center of Excellence Kit — deployment, configuration, customization, and ongoing operation of the inventory, audit, telemetry, and nurture components.
Power Platform ALM — solution layering, managed solutions, environment strategy, and Power Platform Pipelines or the ALM Accelerator.
CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps — solution checker, automated test, source-controlled solution artifacts, gated promotion, and rollback patterns.
Power Platform DLP policies — connector classification (Business / Non-Business / Blocked), tenant- vs environment-level scoping, endpoint filtering for HTTP and SQL connectors, and custom connector handling.
Environment strategy — environment types, capacity management, sandbox / production discipline, and Dataverse-vs-default-environment routing.
Dataverse — security model (security roles, business units, teams, column-level security, row-level security, hierarchical security), table and relationship design, plug-ins, business rules, calculated and rollup columns, and auditing.
Copilot Studio — agent topic design, knowledge sources, generative answers, plugins and connectors, authentication via Entra, content moderation, and audit.
Stood up at least one production-grade agent end-to-end.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Purview for Copilot so DSPM-for-AI controls compose with your agent design.
Microsoft Entra ID — app registrations, service principals, conditional access, and how all of the above bind to Power Platform DLP and Copilot Studio agent authentication.
Azure Monitor and Log Analytics — workspace design, diagnostic settings on Power Platform and Dataverse, KQL fluency, workbook authoring, alert rules, and action groups.
Application Insights for component-level telemetry on custom connectors, plug-ins, and Copilot Studio agents.
Power BI dashboards that report a value metric a non-technical executive can act on (maker activity, app health, flow run success, agent usage, governance posture).
Demonstrated ability to author and present architecture artifacts to a CTO-level audience: C4 diagrams, SADs, SDDs, milestone roadmaps.
A discovery toolkit you actually use — Lean UX, BPMN, Event Storming, or comparable methods for translating ambiguous client problems into a prioritized backlog with measurable outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft certifications: PL-600 (Power Platform Solution Architect), PL-400 (Developer), PL-500 (RPA Developer), PL-200 (Functional Consultant), AZ-104 (Azure Administrator).
Experience integrating Power Platform with Microsoft Fabric, Dataverse long-term retention, or Azure SQL.
Familiarity with Bicep + Azure Developer CLI (azd) for any Azure-side resources adjacent to the Power Platform estate (custom connector backends, function apps, Container Apps).
Power Automate Desktop and Document Intelligence experience for RPA and intelligent-document scenarios.
Prior delivery in regulated environments (medical device, life sciences, healthcare, or financial services) and comfort with the documentation discipline that comes with them.
Experience as a subcontractor or partner-of-partner — you know how to represent PTM cleanly inside multi-vendor delivery teams and inside the end client’s governance forums.

Responsibilities

Lead the Power Platform Center of Excellence and Application Lifecycle Management lane of a 90-day governance engagement.
Inventory and risk-rank the Power Platform and Copilot Studio estate (apps, flows, agents, environments).
Map current ALM, identity, and CoE Kit posture against PTM and Microsoft baselines.
Quantify Copilot Studio agent exposure, observability gaps, and maker behavior.
Deliver a prioritized governance backlog with measurable ROI.
Stand up the CoE Kit, environment strategy, and Power Platform DLP.
Wire Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) pipelines for both makers and pro-developers.
Operationalize Copilot Studio agent governance — authentication, content moderation, audit.
Light up an Azure Monitor and Log Analytics observability surface tied to the agreed value metric.
Author and present architecture artifacts to a CTO-level audience.
Translate ambiguous client problems into a prioritized backlog with measurable outcomes.
Verify against current docs, the client tenant, and runtime evidence before recommending.
Define the interface — security roles, environment policies, ALM gates, agent authentication boundaries — before anyone builds against it.
Ensure every governance control ships with a test that proves it works and an alert that fires when it stops working.
Welcome a second pair of eyes on every material design decision.