Lead Power Platform Architect

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Lead Power Platform Architect

London (EC2R 7HJ) or Manchester (M50 3SP) | Hybrid

Full time (35 hours per week)

Up to £95,000 per annum (Neg. depending on location and experience)

+ excellent benefits, including bonus

We make health happen

Working within our Group function, you’ll play a key role in supporting our customer‑facing colleagues to deliver outstanding service and patient care across the UK and globally. This is an opportunity to work in a purpose‑driven organisation, helping shape the strategic direction of Bupa and improving the experience of our customers every day.

As our Lead Power Platform Architect, you’ll work confidently at both a strategic and hands‑on level, leading complex delivery work and guiding teams to build high‑quality, scalable solutions. You’ll partner with Domain Architects to maximise value, drive innovation and help shape new business and technical capabilities across Bupa. You’ll also strengthen our Power Platform delivery model and play a key role in evolving our architecture governance, developing clear standards and principles that support long‑term strategic alignment.

How you’ll help us make health happen

• Establish policies, principles, patterns and practices for the definition of Power platform solution architectures 

• Manage trade-offs and balance functional, service quality and systems management requirements 

• Manage the relationship and communicate proposed decisions to senior stakeholders 

• Coordinate and manage the target solution architecture across multiple initiatives 

• Maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives. 

• Mentor and provide architectural direction to the Power Platform development team

• Lead on the successful completion of required governance 

• Continually develop and evolve Power Platform solution patterns to accelerate future delivery 

• Partner with Data, Security, Risk, Privacy and Legal teams to ensure ways of working are continually improved and outcomes achieved 

• Maintain a catalogue of solution designs and contribute to the Enterprise Architecture target working with domain architect

What you’ll bring

• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL‑600) is highly preferred.

• Deep subject‑matter expertise in Power Platform architecture, implementation, governance and support.

• Proven experience delivering IT strategies that drive meaningful business change.

• Confident engaging with senior leaders, shaping proposals, and leading engineering teams through detailed solution design.

• Strong background in delivering well‑architected, scalable and secure solutions.

• Solid understanding of Security and Risk practices, with the ability to balance functional and non‑functional requirements.

• Knowledge of Agile delivery, Product Management, and continuous process improvement methods.

• Ability to mentor a small team of technical specialists.

Deep technical capability areas across Power Platform, SharePoint Online, Power BI/Fabric, Entra ID

Power Platform (Architecture, Design & Automation)

• Skilled in Dataverse‑first solution design, including data modelling and performance optimisation

• Strong understanding of canvas vs model‑driven app patterns, component libraries, and multi‑app architectures

• Experienced in cloud flow automation, including error handling, retries, idempotency, concurrency controls, and monitoring

• Designs robust integrations using standard and custom connectors

Power Platform Governance

• Knowledge of tenant‑level guardrails, policies, and global settings

• Defines and manages environment strategies across dev/test/prod

• Experienced with environment‑level controls, including DLP, access management, managed environments, configuration and ALM/pipelines

SharePoint Online (Architecture & Integration)

• Strong understanding of information architecture: site structures, navigation, metadata/content types, retention, scalable library/list design.

• Experience designing security and permission models, including sensitivity labels and external sharing governance.

• Understanding of integration patterns when using SharePoint with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, including performance considerations.

Power BI & Fabric (Modelling, Capacity & Operations)

• Strong skills in data modelling and designing reliable semantic models.

• Understanding of when to use Direct Lake, Import, or DirectQuery for performance and scale.

• Ability to design solutions that use Fabric capacity efficiently, avoiding overload and managing concurrency.

• Experience with workspace governance, RLS, endorsed content, and deployment pipelines.

• Knowledge of connectivity and performance tuning (e.g., gateways, incremental refresh).

• Familiar with monitoring Fabric capacity and resolving refresh failures or performance issues.

Entra ID (Identity, Access & Security)

• Experience with app registrations, enterprise apps, service principals, app roles, delegated vs application permissions, Key Vault secrets, and least‑privilege design.

• Understanding of authentication patterns such as OAuth and SSO.

• Awareness of Conditional Access implications for service accounts, MFA, and device compliance.

• Knowledge of operational identity practices: privileged access, break‑glass accounts, access reviews, auditing and logging.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva, our global wellbeing programme, supports every aspect of health — mental, physical, financial, social and environmental.

When you join Bupa, you’ll have access to:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing with length of service), with the option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance (benefit in kind)

• Enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance‑based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local gym discounts

• A range of family‑friendly policies and flexible working options

• Additional benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a global healthcare company. With no shareholders, our focus is always on our customers. We exist to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives — and make a better world.

Everything we do is underpinned by our values: brave, caring and responsible.

We want everyone at Bupa to feel they belong. We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, identities and experiences.

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee an interview/assessment for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. We will always make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

If you require information about this role in an alternative format, please email [email protected].

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