Senior Power Platform Developer

Senior Power Platform Developer is responsible for designing, developing and delivering complex business solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages and Power BI. The role provides senior technical expertise across solution design, development, integration, testing and deployment, while supporting development standards, troubleshooting complex technical issues and guiding other developers to deliver secure, scalable and maintainable solutions. Key duties and responsibilities As the Senior Power Platform Developer, you will support the delivery of NHMRC’s Research Grant Review module and related grants systems by designing, building and maintaining secure, reliable and user-centred Microsoft Power Platform solutions. You will:  Design, develop and maintain model-driven apps, canvas apps and Power Pages solutions using Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse.  Configure and extend Power Pages sites, including page templates, lists, forms, web roles, table permissions, authentication settings and secure external user access.  Build and optimise Dataverse tables, relationships, business rules, security roles, views and forms to support complex grant assessment and review processes.  Develop automated workflows and integrations using Power Automate, custom connectors, APIs and Azure services where required.  Extend Power Platform solutions using JavaScript, Liquid, HTML and CSS, and work with plug-ins or other extensibility options where low-code configuration is not sufficient.  Apply sound application lifecycle management practices, including solution layering, environment management, source control, deployment pipelines and release documentation.  Work closely with business analysts, testers, product owners and subject matter experts to translate requirements into practical technical designs and working solutions.  Support testing, defect resolution, performance tuning, accessibility checks and production support for Power Platform and Power Pages solutions.  Prepare clear technical documentation and contribute to governance, security and continuous improvement of NHMRC’s Power Platform delivery practices. Criteria The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters. Essential criteria 1. Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA) Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development. Plans and drives software construction activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software development methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors applications of project/team standards for software construction, including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software development. 2. Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA) Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk. Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews. Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools. 3. Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA) Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment. Plans and drives software configuration activities. Adopts and adapts appropriate software configuration methods, tools and techniques. Measures and monitors the application of standards for configuration design and deployment including software security. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for software configuration design and deployment. 4. Software design: Level 4 (SFIA) Designs complex software applications, components and modules. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns and methodology. Creates and communicates multiple design views to balance stakeholders' concerns and to satisfy functional and non-functional requirements. Identifies, evaluates and recommends alternative design options and trade-offs. Models, simulates or prototypes the behaviour of proposed software to enable approval by stakeholders, and effective construction of the software. Verifies software design by constructing and applying appropriate methods. Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications. Leads reviews of others designs. 5. Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA) Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs. Ensures that the system design balances functional and non-functional requirements. Reviews systems designs and ensures that appropriate methods, tools and techniques are applied effectively. Makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks. Adopts and adapts system design methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to development of system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components. 6. Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA) Plans and drives activities to develop organisational systems integration and build capabilities including automation and continuous integration. Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes to create a robust integration framework. Provides authoritative advice and guidance on any aspect of systems integration. Leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design. Assesses risks and takes preventative action. Measures and monitors applications of standards. Contributes to the development of organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems integration. Desirable criteria 1. Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA) Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction. Opportunity summary Sellers can submit Up to 1 candidate Number of sellers invited Fewer than 5 Number of candidates submitted Fewer than 10 RFQ closing time 00 Weeks 06 Days 06 Hours Send us feedback About Accessibility Privacy Terms of use Disclaimer and copyright An initiative of the Digital Transformation Agency The Australian Government acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present. © Commonwealth of Australia