Senior Consultant - Power Platform CoE, ALM & Copilot Studio

Proactive Technology Management•Ferndale, MI

1d•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. Proactive Technology Management (PTM) Fusion has committed to a 90-day governance program for a Fortune-class regulated enterprise client. The program has two delivery lanes running in parallel — Power Platform / Copilot Studio CoE & ALM and Microsoft Purview / M365 Compliance. This posting is for the Power Platform lane. The engagement runs in two phases: Phase 1 — Discovery & Assess (30 days). Inventory and risk-rank the 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. Phase 2 — Implement & Govern (60 days). 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. You will work in lockstep with a Microsoft Purview / M365 compliance specialist who owns the data classification, DLP, retention, and Purview-for-Copilot side. The two lanes share a Solution Architecture Document, a milestone roadmap, and a value metric — so coordination matters.

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. You have 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 — you will partner with the Purview lane on this, but you must be able to reason about it end-to-end.
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

Deliver a risk-ranked inventory of every app, flow, agent, and environment across the client tenant, with a connector-usage analysis that informs DLP scope.
Deliver a current-state assessment of ALM, identity, environment strategy, and CoE Kit posture, mapped to PTM and Microsoft reference architectures.
Deliver a prioritized governance backlog with one-line ROI rationale per item, ready to drive Phase 2 scope confirmation.
Deploy and operate a Power Platform CoE Kit with environment strategy, tenant- and environment-level DLP policies, connector classification rationale, and maker-onboarding flow.
Implement ALM pipelines (Power Platform Pipelines or ALM Accelerator + GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) serving both citizen-developer and pro-developer paths — solution layering, managed solution promotion, source-controlled artifacts, and gated environment promotion.
Perform Dataverse design uplift where needed: security roles, table and relationship design, plug-in patterns, business rules, and auditing posture.
Implement Copilot Studio agent governance — authenticated Entra-bound knowledge sources, content controls, audit logging, and red-team review of high-exposure agents. Coordinate with the Purview lane on DSPM-for-AI configuration.
Implement Azure Monitor and Log Analytics observability — diagnostic settings on Power Platform, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio, KQL workbooks for maker activity, app and flow health, and agent usage, alert rules on policy drift, and an executive Power BI dashboard reporting against the value metric agreed during Discovery.
Author Solution Architecture Document (SAD), Solution Design Document (SDD), and milestone roadmap authored against PTM templates and reviewed under our Maker-Checker discipline.