Sr. Power Platform & Copilot Studio Administrator

The Sr. Power Platform & Copilot Studio Administrator is responsible for the secure, scalable, and compliant administration of Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio). This role owns tenant governance, environment strategy, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), license management, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy, and platform monitoring. The administrator partners closely with security, compliance, and business stakeholders to enable citizen development safely, standardize best practices, and ensure platform reliability and performance.

Key responsibilities include defining and implementing strategies for Platform Governance & Security, Administration & Operations, Application Lifecycle Management, and AI adoption.

• Own and maintain tenant-wide settings and environment strategy for departments and citizens developed solutions within Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio (Dev/Test/Prod, sandbox, and business-unit environments)

• Design, implement, and enforce DLP policies for connectors and data classifications; regularly review exceptions and mitigate risk.

• Configure Copilot Studio policies including data grounding sources, prompts, plugins/actions, responsible AI guardrails, content moderation, and logging 

• Administer Copilot Studio including setting up environments, security, channels (Teams, Web, Direct Line), data sources and implementing safety guardrails.

• Oversee licensing & capacity (per-user, per-app, pay-as-you-go, Copilot Studio credits, Dataverse database/file/log capacity), and forecast needs.

• Design and Implement ALM strategy for managed and unmanaged environments using pipelines and deployment automation

• Define standards and templates (solution structure, naming conventions, environments, connectors, data models)

• Partner with security and compliance to implement security requirements, protect sensitive data, and configure DLP settings

• Enable citizen developers with guardrails, training, office hours, and standardized templates/components

• Develop and maintain documentation: platform runbooks, standards, FAQs, and onboarding materials.

• Run periodic environment/app reviews and action admin notifications

• Review environment inventory, app/flow inventories, usage and activity, solution health

• Monitor service health, performance, and limits; proactively resolve incidents and collaborate with Microsoft Support as needed.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• 3-5 years of experience performing Power Platform tenant administration with certification or equivalent background
• Understanding of low code development using Power Apps, Power Automate flows, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio agents
• Knowledge of citizens development, ALM strategies, security/compliance, and platform/operations management
• Experience with scripting languages and full stack development using programming languages such as Power Shell, Python, and C#
• Experience using and automating services for Microsoft 365 and including Power BI, SharePoint, Exchange, Office Apps, Entra Identity, and Microsoft Azure
• Deep understanding of AI technology including Large Language Models (LLMs), data grounding and knowledge sources, orchestration, agentic automation, MCP services, and responsible AI guardrails
• Understanding of agile project management, good communication, and team collaboration
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs,