Microsoft Functional Consultant

Microsoft Functional Consultant
12 months
Remote - flexible to go onsite for meetings
Inside IR35 - Umbrella
Active SC clearances or eligible candidates will be considered

Role Description:
The Functional Consultant acts as the bridge between business stakeholders and the technical delivery teams, ensuring that Power Platform solutions (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and related components) are designed, configured, and delivered in line with business requirements and best practice.
They focus on understanding processes, translating them into functional designs, and guiding delivery through configuration, testing and adoption.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Discovery & Requirements

• Lead and facilitate workshops to capture business processes, pain points, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop detailed functional and non-functional requirements for Power Platform solutions.
• Produce process maps, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Identify dependencies, integration needs, and data requirements.

2. Solution Design

• Translate business requirements into Power Platform design specifications (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse).
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Technical Leads to ensure design feasibility and alignment with architectural principles.
• Define configuration items, data models, and key business rules.
• Support creation of wireframes and prototypes to visualise user experience.

3. Delivery Support

• Work closely with development squads to clarify requirements during sprints.
• Validate solution configurations and flows during build and test cycles.
• Create and execute functional test cases and support UAT.
• Ensure traceability between requirements, build, and testing.

4. Governance & Documentation

• Maintain solution documentation (functional design documents, process flows, data mappings).
• Support change control and backlog refinement.
• Contribute to definition of standards and best practices for Power Platform delivery.

5. Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a key contact for business SMEs, product owners, and end users.
• Provide clear communication between business and technical teams.
• Support training and adoption activities to embed the solution.

Core Skills & Experience

• Proven experience delivering Power Platform solutions (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power BI).
• Strong understanding of data models, relationships, and common data service principles.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments using Azure DevOps or similar.
• Ability to create user stories, acceptance criteria, and test scripts.
• Understanding of solution governance, ALM, and environment strategy in Power Platform.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.

Desirable

• Familiarity with integration patterns using APIs, connectors, and data gateways.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD for Power Platform.
• Understanding of data governance and compliance frameworks

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!