Senior Engineer (Microsoft Power Platform)
Practiv, New Zealand

We are looking for motivated Senior Engineers to join our team in developing world-class solutions. Our team is based in Auckland, New Zealand and as an Accredited Employer, we are happy to provide sponsorship. Our core business is moving large organisations' services to the cloud, and delivering UX-led applications with our powerful in-house CI/CD tooling. Our customers look to us for technical and business leadership, and our people bring that.

Your level of experience brings with it confidence to make technical decisions for our teams and customers, we see you as personable and presentable, able to communicate well in a team and take ownership of your outcomes. We like motivated, self-starters.

Requirements

• Engage in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) which includes gathering and analysing business requirements, functional/technical specifications, designing, developing, testing, deploying the applications and providing production support
• Work with all stakeholders to explore and implement best-in-class solutions
• Design and develop applications using the Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents
• Configure and customize on standard workflows, dashboards, forms, views and develop standard or custom reports
• Create analytics using Power Query and DAX in Power BI
• Design and create database models
• Produce complex reports using Power BI and integrate Power BI reports and dashboards into PowerApps
• Exercise creative problem-solving skills when performing end-to-end testing, troubleshooting and end-user support
• Provide subject matter expertise around Power Platform and Center of Excellence tool kits
• Maintain documentation of functional/solution specifications/codes according to best practices
• Provide training on Power Platform development and best practices
• Assume additional responsibilities as and when assigned
  

• At least 5 years of experience in developing and deploying solutions with Power Platform
• Experience and certifications, such as PL-100, PL-200, PL-400 and PL-600, in the Microsoft stack is highly desirable
• Relevant Microsoft Power Platform certifications is an added advantage
• A deep understanding of the capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents) and using API custom-connectors within PowerApps
• Development skills on Office365 services SharePoint, MSSQL and Azure Services
• Working experience with relational databases MS SQL, Oracle

Benefits

• The sky is the limit when working at Practiv. Our people are talented and driven and we help them achieve their career goals. We care about your experience, and your future. We reflect this with a market leading salary, benefits, and we will support your development goals as a team with a lot of expertise and energy.
• As expected in 2023, flexible working to suit your lifestyle is encouraged.
• You'll work on top tier projects. We're leading some of NZ's biggest corporates in moving core business services to the cloud. We work a lot in financial services, so there's some exciting complexity to challenge you, with lots of development opportunities as a result.
• Modern technology and patterns. We're micro service and cloud-native with mature dev ops. Our management team are technical. We've been focused on best practice for 20 years and you'll feel those benefits.
• Our Build and Run patterns mean we often push software to production multiple times per day even for large corporates so you'll be in an environment that promotes such outcomes.

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