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Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.\nWe are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.\nPower Platform Technical Architect\nWe are looking for a Power Platform Technical Architect to lead the technical side of a four-week discovery into service-desk and chatbot options. You will assess Microsoft capabilities, design the target architecture and make sure every option is secure, supportable and fit for a government technology environment.\nWhat you will do\nSet the technical architecture approach and decision framework for the discovery.\n\nAssess Power Platform and related Microsoft capabilities for form intake, workflow, queue management, service levels, dashboards, chatbot interactions and escalation.\n\nEvaluate Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages, Power BI, Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Microsoft Copilot Studio where appropriate.\n\nAssess integration options with identity and access management, content, document, notification and reporting services.\n\nDefine the data model for requests, users, documents, queues, statuses, service levels, approvals, escalation and audit history.\n\nAssess data classification, retention, privacy, accessibility, security, environment management and operational support needs.\n\nDefine how development, test and production environments, managed solutions, connection references and deployment pipelines should be used.\n\nKeep prototype decisions proportionate to a short discovery while providing credible evidence of feasibility.\n\nGuide developers on solution structure, non-functional requirements and reusable design patterns.\n\nIdentify constraints, dependencies, risks and decisions that require stakeholder input.\n\nSupport effort estimates, delivery phasing, licensing considerations and the skills needed for implementation.\n\nExpected outputs\nTechnical option assessment.\n\nArchitecture and integration views.\n\nData, security and environment governance recommendations.\n\nTechnical feasibility evidence for the prototypes.\n\nDocumented architecture risks, constraints and dependencies.\n\nIndicative implementation architecture, delivery phases and technical resource profile.\n\nWhat you will bring\nExtensive experience designing enterprise solutions on Microsoft Power Platform.\n\nDeep knowledge of Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse.\n\nStrong experience in workflow, case management, service-desk or conversational service architecture.\n\nExperience integrating Microsoft cloud services with enterprise identity, data, document management and reporting platforms.\n\nStrong understanding of security architecture, role-based access control, data loss prevention, auditability and environment governance.\n\nAbility to assess low-code and custom development options and explain the trade-offs.\n\nExperience producing option assessments, architecture diagrams, technical risk assessments and delivery roadmaps.\n\nProven technical leadership across a multidisciplinary discovery team.\n\nExperience in UK government, the public sector or another security-conscious, regulated environment.\n\nDesirable\nExperience with Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Microsoft Copilot Studio.\n\nKnowledge of Azure services, Microsoft Entra ID, Power BI, SharePoint and Microsoft Purview.\n\nMicrosoft certifications such as PL-600 (Power Platform Solution Architect Expert), PL-200 (Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate) or AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert).\n\nFamiliarity with the GDS Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice and public sector security controls.\n\nDiversity and Inclusion\nAt Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation and better outcomes. 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