Power Platform, Senior Consultant

Job Description Summary A career within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.
Power PlatformSenior Consultants are responsible for leading Power Platform workstreams for design & implementation on delivery projects. They are also responsible for delivering Power Platform responses and providing demos on sales pursuits, managing Power Platform input to IP and asset development, and meeting the general expectations in line with their consulting grade.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Building relationships with new and existing clients
Leading cross-functional teams in client-facing delivery roles
Documenting, proposing and discussing solution options as a part of the programme team (high level design / low level design)
Configuring and developing Microsoft Power Platform solutions to fit project requirements.
Engaging with team members to contribute towards successful project outcomes.
Working closely with technical development capability, including near shore and off shore teams.
Working with third party providers to translate requirements and design to ensure solution build is in line with expectations
Providing delivery support across all phases of the programme including testing, business change, data migration and cutover.
Understanding business requirements and scope changes and highlight any impact on delivery teams or technical solution.
Providing SME input across a variety of programme workstreams, including testing, training, data, reporting, and business change.
Coach, mentor and develop more junior project team members
PwC Consulting Manager Grade Expectations:
Core Project Responsibilities - Leading;
- Managing the Delivery Scope
- Managing Off-shore Deliverables
- CR Review & Approvals
- Ensuring PwC and Client Stakeholders are well managed
Project Management
-Responsible for planning and managing the workstreams they are assigned
-Runs workstream meetings
-Manages workstream issues & risks
Delivery Management
-Manages quality of deliverables across the workstreams they are assigned
-Manages relationships with other workstreams
People Management
-Responsible for development of coachees
-Responsible for skills development of less experienced team members
Stakeholder Management
-Manages PwC and client stakeholder expectations
-Advocate for Microsoft within the firm
Sales Support
-Able to plan and deliver sales demos
-Seen as a specialist to support sales pursuits in areas of Microsoft product expertise
Desired Experience:
Established experience delivering Power Platform solutions
Ideally, experience in a client-facing role with a Microsoft Gold Partner
Experience in Power Apps (model-driven & canvas apps), Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse for Teams, Power Pages or Power Virtual Agents
1 or more intermediate level relevant Microsoft certifications
Working in agile project delivery teams
Desired Attributes:
Relevant Microsoft Power Platform certifications where available
Good understanding of both technical and functional capabilities of the Power Platform including Power Apps (Canvas, Model Driven, Portals), Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent
Understanding of both technical and functional capabilities of the Microsoft Dynamics modules including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Field Service desired but not essential
Strong presentation and demonstration skills
Business process mapping, modelling and documentation knowledge
Able to confidently understand not only business process design at feature or user story level but on the wider enterprise or end to end process level
Training in project management methodologies (such as PRINCE2, Agile or Scrum) would be beneficial but not essential
Confident and effective communication skills
Thinks clearly and calmly under pressure
Able to manage client expectations
Investigates problems to establish real or hidden causes
Solves complex problems with creative solutions
Places emphasis on user satisfaction
Ability to prioritise and successfully manage multiple projects/deadlines simultaneously
Must have the ability to work independently as well as within a team environment
Certifications:
PL-100
PL-200
PL-300
PL-400
PL-500
15. Required Skills:
Documentation
Business Process Analysis
Presentation