Power Platform Engineer (Microsoft Copilot Studio)

Title: Power Platform Engineer (Microsoft Copilot Studio)

Location: Canada Remote
Employment Type: Contract
Copilot Studio: Mandatory

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Microsoft Copilot Studio & Power Platform Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and enterprise integrations.

The ideal candidate will design and develop intelligent copilots, workflows, automation solutions, and enterprise-grade integrations using Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Graph API, Azure services, and modern LLM capabilities.

Primary Skills Mandatory

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Strong experience with Power Automate Cloud & Desktop
• Experience developing Power Apps Canvas & Model-Driven Apps
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Dataverse
• Experience integrating backend and enterprise systems using:
  • Power Platform Connectors
  • Custom Connectors
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • Azure Functions
  • Dataverse
  • REST APIs
  • Third-party services

Secondary / Preferred Skills

LLM & AI Development

• Experience building LLM-powered applications and AI agents
• Hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry, including projects, deployments, prompt flows, and evaluations
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills for agent logic, function calling, and API integrations
• Solid understanding of:
  • LLM prompting
  • System prompts
  • Few-shot prompting
  • Safety guardrails
  • Grounding techniques

Azure AI & Cloud Services

Experience with Azure services such as:

• Azure AI Search
• Azure OpenAI
• Azure Functions
• Azure Storage
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure Service Bus
• AI/OSS model deployments

RAG & AI Architecture

• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture
• Understanding of:
  • Chunking strategies
  • Embeddings
  • Vector search
  • Hybrid search
  • Reranking
  • Enterprise data grounding

DevOps & Engineering Practices

• Experience with CI/CD and ALM
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring
• Understanding of security and cost optimization for LLM workloads

Key Responsibilities

1. Microsoft Copilot Studio Development

• Build, extend, and maintain copilots using Microsoft Copilot Studio
• Configure topics, entities, actions, and generative answers
• Develop custom extensions using Power Automate, custom connectors, and APIs
• Integrate copilots with enterprise data sources including:
  • Dataverse
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • SharePoint
  • Azure Functions
  • External/third-party services

2. Power Platform Engineering

• Design and develop Power Automate Cloud and Desktop flows
• Build Canvas Apps and Model-Driven Apps
• Develop Dataverse-backed applications and solutions
• Design Dataverse schemas, tables, relationships, business rules, and calculated columns
• Follow Power Platform ALM and deployment best practices
• Work with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub for solution packaging and deployments

3. Integrations & Connectors

• Develop and configure Power Platform and custom connectors
• Integrate with:
  • REST APIs
  • Microsoft Graph API
  • Azure Functions
  • Dataverse
  • SAP
  • ServiceNow
  • Salesforce
  • Other third-party enterprise systems
• Implement secure authentication using OAuth 2.0 / Microsoft Entra ID
• Handle API throttling, error handling, security, and integration reliability

4. Prompt Engineering & LLM Applications

• Design effective prompts, system instructions, and few-shot examples for LLM-powered copilots
• Implement grounding using enterprise data from Dataverse, SharePoint, APIs, and other sources
• Apply RAG, vector search, and hybrid retrieval patterns where appropriate
• Develop and optimize AI agent workflows and function-calling capabilities

5. Microsoft Graph API

• Develop secure integrations using Microsoft Graph API
• Work with Microsoft 365 services including:
  • Users and Groups
  • Mail and Calendar
  • Files and Drives
  • Teams and Channels

Build Graph-powered automations within Power Automate and Copilot Studio