Power Platform Administrator

Salary: £130,000 - 143,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on administration of Microsoft Power Platform across multiple environments.
• Experience with Power Platform Admin Center, Dataverse, Power Automate and Copilot Studio.
• Practical knowledge of environment strategy, DLP policies, connectors, gateways, licensing and capacity management.
• Experience deploying managed solutions through Test, UAT and Production.
• Strong understanding of user access, security groups and Dataverse roles.
• Power BI Service administration, including workspaces, permissions, refresh schedules and data-source credentials.
• Experience supporting business-critical platforms through UAT and production go-live.
• Confident troubleshooting operational issues and managing escalations with Microsoft.

Responsibilities:

• Create, configure and administer Development, Test, UAT and Production environments.
• Manage tenant-wide DLP policies and connector permissions.
• Monitor and allocate AI Builder credits and Copilot Studio message capacity.
• Administer data gateways, licensing and platform capacity.
• Raise and manage Microsoft support tickets.
• Take immediate ownership of the Development and Test environments.
• Deploy approved solutions from Test into UAT and Production.
• Manage users, security groups and Dataverse security roles.
• Administer Copilot Studio agents in UAT and Production, including monitoring, publishing and managing knowledge sources.
• Manage Power Automate flows, environment variables and connection references.
• Provide first-line support for UAT and Production operational issues.
• Receive, publish and administer analytics dashboards delivered through the project handover.
• Configure scheduled data refreshes and data-source credentials.
• Manage workspace permissions and viewer access across UAT and Production.
• Apply sensitivity labels and information-protection policies.
• Assume ongoing ownership of the analytics layer following go-live.
• Review the existing tenant configuration, access controls, licensing and capacity.
• Prepare the platform and deployment process for UAT.
• Complete the Power BI and analytics handover before UAT go-live.
• Establish ongoing administration and first-line support for UAT and Production.

Technologies:

• AI
• Copilot
• Support
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Power BI
• Security
• PLC

More:

Method Resourcing has partnered with a firm seeking a hands-on contractor to take end-to-end administrative ownership of the Microsoft Power Platform estate across Development, Test, UAT and Production. This is a contract role at £550 inside IR35, based in London with 3 days per week onsite. The role combines tenant-level Power Platform administration with environment deployment, operational support and Power BI administration, with an immediate priority on establishing control of the Development and Test environments before supporting UAT and Production readiness.

last updated 39 week of 2026