Power Platform Technical Lead

Dentons is designed to be different. Our Firm leads the way in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. We challenge the status quo and deliver consistent results as well as uncompromising quality and value to our clients. Our global presence is renowned as a firm with over 21000 individuals in more than 200 offices serving clients across 80 countries.

Dentons Canada is committed to its people and communities. We are consistently recognized as an employer of choice having received numerous awards including being selected as one of Canadas Top 100 Employers (2026); Canadas Top Employers for Young People (2026) and Canadas Best Diversity Employers (2026).

This role is an opportunity for you to join Canadas Global Law Firm a firm that offers opportunities to build your career while growing your skills and deepening your expertise.

POSITION SUMMARY

Dentons Canada is seeking an experienced hands-on Power Platform Technical Lead to provide technical leadership and deliver secure practical solutions across Microsoft Power Platform and SharePoint Online. This role will help the Firm use low-code development automation collaboration and content-management capabilities to improve legal and business services. This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports. The successful candidate will lead through solution architecture hands-on delivery technical standards coaching and cross-functional influence. The role will also provide advanced administration and escalation support while routine user support and lower-complexity operational work are handled through established support roles. The role is expected to enable secure and scalable adoption of Power Platform and SharePoint capabilities improve automation and collaboration outcomes and strengthen governance operational effectiveness and long-term supportability across business solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the technical direction and continuous improvement of Power Platform and SharePoint services translating business needs Microsoft product changes security requirements and operational experience into practical priorities and standards.
• Lead discovery solution architecture design development and implementation using Power Apps Power Automate Dataverse Copilot Studio SharePoint Online and related Microsoft 365 or approved Azure services.
• Design and build canvas and model-driven applications cloud flows approvals integrations and reusable components using sound practices for Power Fx security performance error handling and maintainability.
• Lead the design and ongoing improvement of SharePoint solutions including sites lists libraries content types metadata permissions information architecture pages search and SharePoint-enabled business processes.
• Advise stakeholders on when SharePoint Dataverse Teams or another approved service is the appropriate foundation for a solution considering scale data sensitivity licensing supportability and business criticality.
• Establish and apply proportionate governance and security controls for environments data loss prevention connectors identities access ownership inventory auditing retention and sensitive or client information.
• Establish repeatable application lifecycle management practices using managed solutions development test and production environments deployment pipelines testing release documentation rollback planning and change controls.
• Provide senior technical oversight for platform configuration access patterns monitoring capacity service health and complex incidents. Coordinate tenant-level changes and escalations with enterprise administrators Security service management teams Microsoft and other vendors.
• Review solution designs and implementations for security performance resilience licensing maintainability and support risks and lead root-cause analysis for complex production issues.
• Create practical standards templates and technical documentation and coach makers developers analysts administrators and technical owners to support responsible self-service.
• Partner with legal practices business services Knowledge and Legal Operations Business Technology vendors and global or regional teams to clarify outcomes dependencies ownership and support expectations.
• Communicate technical options risks costs and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute expertise to related Microsoft 365 automation integration and AI-enabled initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement in platform adoption solution quality governance compliance operational stability and delivery effectiveness through standards coaching monitoring and ongoing optimization.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Information Technology Computer Science Software Engineering Business Systems or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum five years of progressive responsibilities and experience delivering business applications automation collaboration or digital workplace solutions with significant hands-on experience in Microsoft Power Platform and SharePoint Online.
• Demonstrated experience leading the technical design and delivery of production solutions from discovery through release and operational readiness.
• Advanced hands-on knowledge of Power Apps Power Automate Dataverse Power Fx environments connectors security roles solutions and application lifecycle management.
• Strong SharePoint Online solution experience including sites lists libraries permissions metadata content types pages information architecture and integration with Teams and Power Platform.
• Ability to translate business requirements into secure maintainable and supportable technical designs.
• Practical experience with several of the following: REST APIs JSON Microsoft Graph custom connectors gateways SQL or other enterprise data sources Azure services application registrations service principals or managed identities.
• Experience with governance and operational practices such as environment strategies data loss prevention managed solutions deployment pipelines monitoring controlled production identities and operational handoff.
• Strong troubleshooting analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to lead complex technical investigations and make sound recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication documentation and stakeholder-management skills including the ability to explain technical decisions in clear business language.
• Self-directed and collaborative with strong ownership judgment attention to detail and the ability to balance delivery speed user experience security and long-term supportability.
• Ability to work professionally with confidential sensitive or client-related information.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• Working knowledge of one or more supporting technologies such as JavaScript or TypeScript HTML/CSS PowerShell C# Azure Functions SharePoint Framework or Power Platform Component Framework.
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate or Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate. Demonstrated experience designing delivering and supporting production Power Platform and SharePoint Online solutions may be accepted in place of certification. Additional Microsoft certifications or Applied Skills credentials related to Copilot Studio AI agents Microsoft 365 administration security or solution architecture are assets.
• Experience in a legal consulting financial or other professional-services environment where confidentiality risk awareness records management and client service are important.
• Experience with Managed Environments the Power Platform admin centre Center of Excellence capabilities inventory and telemetry capacity management or tenant-level governance.
• Experience with SharePoint Framework PnP PowerShell site provisioning content migration search intranet or portal delivery or records and retention requirements.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub automated deployment source control testing automation or reusable engineering practices.
• Experience with Copilot Studio agents AI Builder Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility or responsible AI controls.

This role is hybrid requiring a combination of in-office and remote work.

We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

This role is a replacement position.

The target salary range for this position is $135000 $155000 commensurate with the successful candidates skills experience and qualifications. Dentons is committed to equitable and competitive compensation. This target range falls within our internal salary ranges which are based on comparable roles in the external market. We strive to hire promote and transfer individuals at the entry point of the range with consideration given to prior experience relevant skills and market conditions.

We recognize that rewarding exceptional talent goes beyond salary. Our comprehensive total rewards package includes inclusive and flexible benefits that support the wellbeing and development of our people. This includes extended health and mental health benefits paid time off retirement savings plans a fitness subsidy parental leave top-up and more.

In addition our learning and development programssuch as mentorship opportunities employee networks and leadership development initiativesare designed to support personal and professional growth.

At Dentons all candidate screening assessment and hiring decisions are made by people. From time to time we use AI-enabled tools to assist in enhancing our recruitment process and materials; however these tools do not screen candidates or make hiring decisions.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At Dentons Canada inclusion diversity equity and accessibility (IDEA) are not just ancillary values they are foundational to our business. We believe that IDEA is essential to the shared success of our team and our clients. Our forward-thinking and inclusive culture supports the professional development of all our people enhances the leading services we offer to our clients and informs our commitment to make a positive impact in the communities where we live and work. As a testament to our commitment to IDEA we have been recognized as one of Canadas Best Diversity Employers for 16 consecutive years (2011-2026) as well as one of Canadas Top Employers for Young People (2026) for the ninth time.

Dentons Canada is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome your application. All employment decisions including hiring will be made without regard to age ancestry citizenship colour creed disability ethnic origin family status gender identity marital status place of origin race sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable human rights legislation.

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