Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect

<div><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. </span></p><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. </span></p><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Join EY and help to build a better working world. </span></p></div><div style="text-align:justify"> </div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">The opportunity</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We are seeking a senior Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of robust enterprise and customer-facing applications using Microsoft Power Platform technologies. This role is focused on solution delivery—building scalable, innovative solutions across Canvas and Model-driven Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI services.</span></p><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">You will also integrate with line of business applications like Microsoft Dynamics 365. While many of our solutions extend Microsoft Dynamics 365, this role also involves extending and integrating with other enterprise systems such as SAP, Salesforce, and industry-specific platforms. You will help our clients harness the Power Platform to create modern omnichannel experiences, empower employees, and enable new business capabilities, while also guiding adoption models, governance, and community enablement. </span></p><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Your key responsibilities</span></strong></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Lead presales activities by designing and delivering compelling demos of Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform solutions tailored to client needs. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Architect and deliver enterprise-scale applications using Power Platform (Canvas, Model-driven, Power Automate, Power Pages) integrated with Dataverse and external systems. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Design customer- and employee-facing applications that support omnichannel service, digital self-service, and workforce enablement scenarios. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Leverage emerging AI capabilities, including Copilot Studio (multi-agent orchestration, plugins/actions, grounding) and Azure AI Foundry, and begin to apply Agentic AI approaches to create adaptive, intelligent solutions. </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Assess AI readiness for clients including data governance, compliance, and infrastructure prerequisites for deploying Copilot and autonomous agent.</span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Develop integration patterns to extend ERP/CRM platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, or Salesforce, and connect Power Platform with line-of-business applications and external APIs. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Advise clients on licensing, architecture trade-offs, and cost models, shaping solution design for scalability and sustainability. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Provide technical leadership in solution design, architecture documentation, and strategic decision-making across cloud and business application landscapes. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Support and lead junior technical team members by sharing best practices, providing design recommendations, offering guidance on complex challenges, and conducting peer reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables and continuous learning. </span><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Drive delivery excellence: guide backlog shaping, oversee sprint-level architecture, and ensure non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and maintainability are met. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Mentor and coach EY delivery teams and client stakeholders on Power Platform best practices, including secure development and AI safety considerations. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Support business development by contributing to proposals, creating proofs-of-concept and demos, and engaging with client executives to shape solution vision. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Promote adoption and governance by advising clients on Center of Excellence models, Managed Environments, and enabling federated maker communities that balance innovation with control. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Advance EY’s practice maturity through reusable reference architectures, solution accelerators, and delivery playbooks tailored for Power Platform engagements. </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Skills and attributes for success</span></strong></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Delivery leadership: serve as the accountable architect for major Power Platform programs, ensuring technical quality, scalability, and business value from blueprint through go-live. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Business development: support pursuits by shaping solution architectures, creating compelling demos, and articulating the business impact of Power Platform and AI-driven solutions. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Practice maturity: contribute to EY’s Microsoft Business Applications and Power Platform competency by codifying solution patterns, accelerators, and delivery frameworks. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Adoption &amp; governance: advise clients on enabling federated maker communities, platform guardrails, and CoE/ALM models to drive safe and scalable adoption of Power Platform. </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">To qualify for the role, you must have:</span></strong></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">10+ years in enterprise solution architecture, with at least 5 years hands-on experience delivering solutions with Microsoft Power Platform (Canvas and Model-driven apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Pages). </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Proven experience building robust applications that are customer- or employee-facing, enabling omnichannel service, digital engagement, or workforce empowerment—not just process automation. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Track record extending Power Platform alongside enterprise applications such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP, Salesforce, or other industry platforms. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Hands-on delivery experience with AI-driven solutions, including Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry; familiarity with emerging patterns in Agentic AI. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Integration expertise across Microsoft ecosystem and third-party APIs, with an understanding of event-driven and API-first patterns. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Experience advising on governance, ALM, and community enablement (CoE Starter Kit, Managed Environments, ALM Accelerator, and fostering federated maker communities). </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong consulting skills: client-facing leadership, solution shaping, workshop facilitation, pre-sales contributions, and executive communication. </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Ideally, you’ll also have</span></strong></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Microsoft certification: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600). </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Additional certifications: PL-400 (Developer Associate), PL-200 (Functional Consultant Associate), PL-300 (Power BI Data Analyst). </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Relevant AI certifications such as AI-102 (Azure AI Engineer Associate) or AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals). </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">What we look for</span></strong></p><ul><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We’re interested in talented professionals with the ability to design and deliver a customer self-service portal built on Power Pages integrated with SAP order management, supported by Copilot Studio agents for digital assistance. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Build an employee-facing mobile app using Canvas Power Apps and Power Automate to streamline field operations, integrated with Dynamics 365 or other ERP platforms. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Extend a CRM or ERP platform with AI-driven copilots using Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and agentic AI principles for adaptive workflows. </span></li><li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Guide a client’s IT and business leaders in standing up a Managed Environment and CoE to govern a federated maker community, enabling innovation while maintaining compliance. </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">What we offer </span></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify"> </p><p>At EY, our Total Rewards package supports our commitment to creating a leading people culture - built on high-performance teaming - where everyone can achieve their potential and contribute to building a better working world for our people, our clients and our communities. 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Plus, we offer:</p><ul><li>Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry</li><li>Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career</li><li>The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you</li></ul><p style="text-align:justify">EY reports salary ranges in accordance with applicable provincial pay transparency legislation. Individual salaries within the anticipated salary ranges noted below are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, education, relevant experience, knowledge, and applicable skill sets.  Toronto : $144 000 to $ 190 000 </p><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? 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