For environments where citizen development has outrun governance
Hire Power Platform Professionals
Low-code sprawl rarely announces itself; it accumulates one convenient app or flow at a time. A flow with no error handling, a data model bolted together request by request, or an app built directly in production can each become the outage nobody planned for. These professionals are tested on catching exactly that kind of sprawl, then placed inside the environment you already run.
- Profiles typically within two business days
- Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
- You interview before placement if you want to
- At least four hours a day inside your core working hours. Two hours plus a daily written handover for the US West Coast
- 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
How we evaluate a Power Platform professional
The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.
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The assessment behind every Power Platform professional we send.
Five competencies sit behind this bar, each with a real scenario and the tell that ends a candidacy. Enthusiasm for low-code tooling is not what gets scored here. What gets scored is governance judgement across a sprawling, citizen-built environment.
What we listen forWhether they recognise the point where low-code stops being the right tool.
A canvas app's logic has grown complex enough that formulas are becoming hard to maintain. Walk us through your call here.
- What strong sounds like
- Identifies the complexity threshold and proposes escalating the logic to a pro-code component or Azure Function rather than adding more formulas.
- What gives us pause
- Keeps adding nested formulas to the canvas app rather than recognising the point where it should escalate to pro-code.
Power Apps · Power Automate · Dataverse
Power BI · Power Fx · AI Builder
Power Platform Admin Center · Data Loss Prevention Policies · Managed Environments
Power Platform CLI · ALM Pipelines · Solution Checker
02Who you actually meet
The bench, priced by seniority.
Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.
Engineer
Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.
The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.
$1,900–2,500per month
Senior
The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.
Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.
$2,700–3,400per month
Lead
The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.
One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.
$3,700–4,600per month
Power Platform professional
2 yrs · US East overlap
Escalated a citizen-developer flow to pro-code once its error handling started silently failing
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Dataverse
Senior Power Platform developer
5 yrs · UK + EU hours
Rebuilt an ALM pipeline that had no real separation between dev, test and production
- Solution Architecture
- Environment Strategy
- Connectors
Lead Power Platform architect
8 yrs · EU + US split
Owns the governance standard that reined in sprawling citizen-developer apps across a division
- Architecture
- Governance
- Center of Excellence
Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.
Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison
03From stated problem to first change
Four steps, each closing on evidence.
The purpose here is testing escalation judgement, not tool enthusiasm. There's no obligation if you decide to stop partway through.
Name the governance problem
We map where citizen development has outrun governance, whether that's environment sprawl, a fragile flow or an ungoverned Dataverse model. The brief names that exact gap, not a tools checklist.
A brief your platform owner signs off onMatch against your environment
Candidates are screened against your actual app sprawl, your ALM maturity and your governance model. Three professionals who understand your environment beat thirty who simply list Power Platform as a skill.
Three fits, not thirty resumesAssess on real governance tasks
Your team can watch the escalation-judgement and error-handling exercises directly. What shows up is governance judgement, not enthusiasm for low-code tools.
An evaluation you can watchOnboard into your ALM pipeline
Environment access, governance standards and a first scoped change through a real managed-solution pipeline. Continuity cover keeps a departure from ever stalling a rollout.
A managed solution shipped by week one
04Evidence and proof
Professionals who brought governance to real sprawl.
Power Platform proof is a flow that fails loudly instead of silently, not enthusiasm for low-code tools. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.
Explore case studies
A citizen-built approval flow given error handling before an approval was missed.
Vela Ledger's finance approval flow had been failing silently for weeks with no notification path. An embedded Power Platform professional added explicit error handling and governance around the flow, and no approval has been missed since.
- Silent flow failures
- Eliminated
- Approvals missed since fix
- Zero
Our approval flow had been failing silently for weeks, and she caught it inside her first sprint.
Sample · pending client approval
He brought real governance to a pile of citizen-built apps nobody on our team had ownership of.
Sample · pending client approval
05Three shapes, one standard
Add a professional, a governance pod, or a practice.
Most teams start with one professional working inside an existing environment. Some need a pod that owns governance and ALM across every environment. Where a platform-wide governance model needs building from scratch, we point you to enterprise platforms instead.
- Team extension
One named professional
A single Power Platform specialist working inside your existing governance model and review process. The lightest commitment, and the usual first step.
- Delivery pods
A governance pod
A pod with its own lead that owns ALM and governance across every environment, from design through rollout. You set priorities while the pod delivers.
- Enterprise Platforms
The practice, not the person
Where a platform-wide governance model needs building from scratch rather than one role filled, our enterprise platforms practice takes that scope on instead.
06Straight answers
Asked before a Power Platform hire is signed.
01What does a Power Platform professional actually do day to day?
Decides when a request has outgrown low-code and needs pro-code escalation, models Dataverse data sensibly, and keeps flows from failing silently in production. Most of the work is governance judgement no course actually teaches.
02Do you cover Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI together?
Matched to your actual footprint across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Dataverse. The evaluation focuses on governance and escalation judgement that spans the whole platform.
03Can we run our own interviews as well?
Yes, freely. The escalation-judgement scenario is built to be reused, and it has become a standard second interview for several clients.
04How fast can a Power Platform professional start?
You will usually see a shortlist inside a week, pulled from a bench that is screened continuously rather than sourced cold. The remaining timeline depends on how fast environment access is granted.
05Who manages the engineer day to day?
Your product owner decides what gets built and reviews every flow before it ships. We own the parts behind that developer: payroll, continuity planning and a replacement if things don't work out.
06What if the engineer is not the right fit?
Speak up in the early weeks and the replacement doesn't cost you anything. We take what went wrong seriously enough to brief it into the next candidate directly.
07Do your Power Platform professionals use AI tools?
Yes, for scaffolding routine flows and Power Fx expressions. Governance calls, environment strategy and error-handling design stay the professional's responsibility throughout.
08How does pricing work for a hired Power Platform professional?
The bracket shown here is a reasonable planning figure; the real number gets fixed once your shortlist and scope are set. Monthly billing applies per professional, with no placement fee and notice-period exit.