Power Platform Software Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer role works within our agile/scrum Product Engineering team to develop software via assigned tasks.  This role is leading initiatives with little guidance to the definition of done, working with immediate peers, and communicating across immediate team.  

​​​​​​​Responsibilities: 

• Applying current and learning new technical skills and understanding required to complete tasks to the definition of done.
• Conducts and facilitates code reviews at times ensuring coding standards are being met.
• Writes technical documentation for application development.
• Proactively seeks in-depth knowledge of all the applications and code worked on, even code not written by the individual.
• Contributes to product demonstrations.
• Conducts Proof-of-Concepts for approaches when asked and helps to provide pro/con inputs to the team for decision making.
• Contributes to work process improvement concepts.

Skills:  

• Communication - Communicates with wider team. Provides feedback on communication of others.
• Empathy & Humility - Constantly pushes for a better understanding of the needs and perspectives of those outside your viewpoint. Makes sound decisions keeping customer in the forefront.
• Initiative – Assesses and initiates tasks and projects independently.
• Objectivity & Adaptability – Can change your mind over strongly held beliefs and pursue a new path with no loss of velocity.
• Growth Mindset – Open to learning new skills and recognizes weakness in themselves.
• Writing Code – Consistently writes testable, readable code across larger more complex projects. You are an advocate for quality.
• Testing – Independently tests and advises the rest of the team on quality of tests.
• Debugging & Monitoring – Systematically debugs issues located within a single service, while taking greater responsibility for the monitoring systems.
• Technical Understanding & Prioritization – Displays a clear technical confidence and understanding, prioritizes tasks and acts accordingly.
• Security – Understands the importance of security and starts to see work through a security lens
• Software Architecture – Has a good understanding of, and designs functions that are aligned with, the overall service architecture. You understand changes may have an effect beyond the immediate change. Also understands changes may impact external integrations and / or other dependencies and is conscious to plan and communicate accordingly.
• Business Context – Knows how the business operates on a high level as well as their core team metrics and can use that knowledge in daily decisions with help.
• Product Knowledge – Understands the purpose of the product. Learning how it can be adapted to meet different needs.
• Culture & Togetherness – Is conscious of signaling and tries to act as they would expect other team members to act. Works to develop good positive relationships. Participates in team activities.
• Developing Others – Recognizes strengths of peers and looks for ways to support those strengths through project work. Invests time in materials or processes to support team growth. Peers see you as an informal coach.
• Hiring & Org Design – A competent interviewer. Follows a structured hiring process and contributes to a decision.
• Stakeholder Management – Is able to keep tangential teams informed and expectations managed around everyday work updates. Uses judgement about others' reaction when disclosing information and opinions.
• Team Leadership – Capable of informally managing interns and other staff. Possibly manages one or two junior team members. Does not look for glory and does not complain about work that needs to be done. Assumes good decisions in others' work. Broadly, you do what you say you are going to do.