Senior Power Platform Automation Engineer (Azure & Python)

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Automation Engineer with strong hands-on experience in building, maintaining, and enhancing workflow automations using Microsoft Power Platform, Azure Functions, and SharePoint. The ideal candidate will be responsible for supporting mission-critical automation processes, integrating Python-based backend components, and ensuring all solutions meet security and governance standards. This is a long-term engineering role focused on sustaining and extending enterprise automation capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize existing automation workflows built using Microsoft Power Automate and Azure Functions.
• Enhance and extend current business workflows (procurement, billing vetting, document routing, OCR processes, rate retrieval, etc.).
• Design, build, and implement new automation solutions based on evolving business requirements.
• Develop and maintain Python-based Azure Functions for backend logic, data extraction, and OCR-related workflows.
• Integrate workflow automations with SharePoint lists, libraries, and structured data repositories.
• Conduct performance tuning, reliability improvements, and compliance reviews for all deployed workflows.
• Prepare documentation including architecture diagrams, process flows, and technical specifications.
• Support and train operations teams on automation usage, monitoring, and administration.
• Ensure all automation solutions comply with data governance, security, and audit requirements.

Technical Skills & Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Power Platform:

  • Power Automate (Advanced)

  • PowerApps (Canvas Apps)

• Deep understanding of SharePoint data structures, permissions, and integration models.
• Proficiency in developing Azure Functions, ideally using Python.
• Experience with OCR, document processing, and data extraction (Azure Cognitive Services or similar).
• Familiarity with automation best practices, including error handling, logging, auditing, and workflow governance.

Preferred Experience

• Background working with procurement, financial approvals, or document processing workflows.
• Experience in automation within regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, government).
• Understanding of Azure cloud security practices.
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps, and automated deployment pipelines (nice to have).

Professional Attributes

• Ability to operate as the primary engineering resource in a staff-augmentation or independent consulting setup.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with high attention to detail.
• Effective communicator capable of collaborating with business and operational stakeholders.
• Strong documentation habits with a focus on clarity and knowledge transfer.
• Proactive and adaptable, comfortable working in evolving and dynamic environments.

Experience & Qualifications

• 4+ years of combined experience in workflow automation, cloud engineering, or related areas.
• Proven experience delivering solutions on Power Platform and Azure.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fieldor equivalent practical experience.