This role is for an experienced Senior Microsoft Power Platform Developer to support the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of enterprise solutions for the U.S. Department of the Interior. These solutions will modernize how mission and business data are collected, managed, monitored, and reported across departmental programs and offices. The successful candidate will collaborate with federal customers, business stakeholders, solution architects, and cross-functional delivery teams to build secure, scalable, and user-centered solutions. The work will improve workflow automation, data quality, reporting, transparency, and operational decision-making across Department of the Interior programs.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and enhance Microsoft Power Platform solutions supporting Department of the Interior programs and business operations.
- Build and customize enterprise Model-Driven Apps using Microsoft Dataverse.
- Design Dataverse tables, relationships, security roles, business rules, forms, views, business process flows, and data-quality controls.
- Develop and maintain secure external-facing experiences using Microsoft Power Pages.
- Create Power BI semantic models, dashboards, reports, and visualizations for executive and operational users.
- Build Power Automate cloud flows for submissions, document routing, notifications, approvals, compliance activities, and other business processes.
- Integrate Power Platform solutions with Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, Azure services, REST APIs, and approved external systems.
- Implement sound application lifecycle management, source control, solution packaging, environment variables, connection references, and deployment pipelines.
- Collaborate with product owners, business analysts, architects, and users to translate business needs into maintainable technical solutions.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning, peer reviews, demonstrations, testing, and release activities.
- Troubleshoot defects, optimize application and report performance, and provide production support.
- Create and maintain solution designs, configuration documentation, technical procedures, release notes, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Apply federal security, privacy, records-management, accessibility, and governance requirements throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Mentor team members, promote reusable patterns, and contribute to Power Platform standards and development practices.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience delivering Microsoft Power Platform solutions.
- 3+ years building enterprise Model-Driven Apps and designing solutions on Microsoft Dataverse.
- 2+ years developing and supporting Power Pages sites.
- 3+ years creating Power BI reports, dashboards, semantic models, and data visualizations.
- Hands-on experience with Power Automate cloud flows, business process automation, and integration patterns.
- Experience integrating Power Platform applications with REST APIs, Microsoft 365 services, and external systems.
- Experience with solution-aware development, managed solutions, environment strategy, source control, and automated deployments.
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams and communicating directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience supporting a federal customer, public-sector program, or other regulated environment.
- Technical experience with:
- Model-Driven Apps
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Power Pages
- Microsoft Power BI
- Microsoft Power Automate
- Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online
- Microsoft Entra ID and role-based security
- Power Platform ALM and governance
- Git-based source control and CI/CD practices
- JavaScript or TypeScript for client-side extensions
- REST APIs, custom connectors, and integration troubleshooting
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400)
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate (PL-200)
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- CompTIA Security+
- Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Developer, or SAFe certification
- Experience supporting the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, or another federal civilian agency.
- Experience developing compliance, permitting, case-management, grants, contract-management, records-management, or submission-tracking solutions.
- Experience designing secure customer, vendor, or partner portals using Power Pages.
- Knowledge of Power Pages authentication, web roles, table permissions, Liquid, JavaScript, and portal security patterns.
- Experience with complex Dataverse security models, auditing, duplicate detection, data migration, and integration.
- Experience with DAX, Power Query, row-level security, deployment pipelines, and performance optimization in Power BI.
- Experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Application Insights, or related Azure services.
- Experience working in Microsoft federal cloud environments, including GCC, or under FedRAMP-aligned controls.
- Foundational knowledge of Power Apps Code Apps, including the pro-code development model, local development workflow, source control, and deployment concepts.
- Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility, federal records-management expectations, and secure software-development practices.
- Experience using C#/.NET for Dataverse plug-ins or custom integration services.
Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies.
Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Select positions at Planet Technologies have Federal Agency Clearance Requirements and may require up to a 10-year background investigation and/or US Citizenship (clearable).
Salaries for Senior Power Platform Developers at Planet Technologies range from $110,000 and $145,000. Several factors will impact final pay offered to a successful candidate including but not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, clearance level, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, training, etc.
Visit www.go-planet.com to learn more about us. Details about our benefits can be found here 2026-2027 Recruitment Guide (1).pdf.docx
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