Lead Engineer (Manager), Microsoft Power Platform

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Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry. Job Description: Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Power Platform engineer to design and deliver complex enterprise solutions for clients while helping raise the technical capability of our broader Power Platform team. This is a hands-on player coach role with significant client delivery responsibility. The Manager will remain deeply involved in solution architecture, software development, troubleshooting, implementation, technical reviews, and client discussions. This is not a primarily administrative or people management position. The ideal candidate is a software engineer with deep Microsoft Power Platform expertise who can combine low code capabilities with custom development, enterprise architecture, and strong consulting skills. Key Responsibilities Serve as a hands-on engineer and technical lead for complex client engagements involving Microsoft Power Platform. Design and build enterprise applications using Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, and related Microsoft technologies. Develop custom solutions using C#/.NET, JavaScript or TypeScript, plugins, custom APIs, PCF components, custom connectors, Azure Functions, and other extensibility approaches. Design scalable Dataverse architectures, including data models, security, integrations, business logic, and performance considerations. Integrate Power Platform solutions with Azure, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Dynamics 365, SQL, APIs, and other enterprise systems. Implement strong ALM practices including source control, solution management, deployment automation, environment strategy, and CI/CD. Lead technical discovery sessions and translate business requirements into practical, well-designed solutions. Communicate architecture decisions, tradeoffs, risks, estimates, and recommendations clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Provide technical leadership across multiple engagements and act as an escalation point for complex engineering challenges. Establish and promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, code quality expectations, and delivery best practices. Mentor engineers and technical leads and help improve engineering quality across the broader team. Help teams determine when Power Platform is the right solution and when custom development or other technologies are more appropriate. Required Qualifications 8 or more years of professional software engineering, application development, solution architecture, or related technology experience. 4 or more years of substantial hands-on Microsoft Power Platform engineering experience. Strong software development experience using C#/.NET and JavaScript or TypeScript. Experience extending Power Platform through plugins, custom APIs, PCF components, custom connectors, Azure Functions, or similar technologies. Strong understanding of Dataverse architecture, security, data modeling, integration patterns, solution management, and performance. Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and integrating with enterprise systems. Experience with Azure services, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Dynamics 365, SQL, and related technologies. Strong experience with ALM, source control, deployment automation, managed solutions, and CI/CD. Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices including code review, testing, debugging, monitoring, and production support. Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery on complex enterprise application projects. Strong client facing communication, consulting, and facilitation skills. Ability to lead technical discussions, challenge assumptions, explain tradeoffs, and provide clear recommendations. Experience mentoring engineers and improving technical practices across a team. Experience working with global clients and distributed delivery teams, including appropriate overlap with US based stakeholders when required. Preferred Qualifications Experience with Power Platform governance, environment strategy, security standards, or Center of Excellence practices. Experience with Azure technologies such as Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Key Vault, or Application Insights. Experience working in consulting or professional services environments. Experience supporting presales, estimation, technical proposals, demonstrations, or workshops. Microsoft Power Platform or Azure certifications such as PL 400, PL 600, or related credentials. What Success Looks Like Successful engineers in this role remain highly engaged in client delivery while also raising the technical capability of the broader team. They are trusted by clients, comfortable solving difficult engineering problems, able to make sound architecture decisions, and capable of guiding others through complex technical challenges. They approach Power Platform as an enterprise application development platform and combine its native capabilities with strong software engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable, maintainable solutions. What It Means to Be a Consultant at Crowe Consulting is a dynamic business focused on solving problems for our clients and serving our core markets through innovative solutions. As technology and AI continue to reshape the consulting landscape, we are looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and eager to learn. At Crowe, consultants are expected to build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems. In this role, you will continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes. In management at Crowe, you play a pivotal role in leading teams, guiding project execution, and deepening client relationships. You are expected to contribute to account planning, identify opportunities to add value, and ensure high-quality delivery. As your responsibilities expand, you take on broader account ownership, balancing project leadership with growing involvement in client strategy and solution development. Success in this role comes from a growth mindset, strong communication skills, advanced critical thinking, and the ability to navigate new challenges with confidence. We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times. Our Benefits: At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you! How You Can Grow: We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper! More about Crowe: Crowe Capability Center – India, operating under the legal entity C3 India Delivery Centre LLP (formerly known as Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world. Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge. We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.