Higher Education Lead

Higher Education Lead

Location: Remote-first (UK/Ireland) with occasional travel to Belfast, Dublin and customer sites
Team: Codec Power Platform Practice
Type: Full-time

Why this role exists

We're hiring a hands-on Higher Education Lead to own solution design and delivery on Microsoft Power Platform - with Dataverse at the core - while shaping and creating accelerators for repeatable, high-quality outcomes across admissions, student services, case management, outreach, and engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to HE solution architecture on Power Platform (Dataverse, Model-driven Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Power BI) from discovery to go-live and adoption for our HE customers.
• Assist with accelerator development: define scope, backlog, release cadence, and documentation; turn successful project patterns into reusable components.
• Design robust Dataverse data models: entities/relationships, security (teams, BPF-stage security, field security), auditing, retention, and environment strategy.
• Build and govern solutions using solution layering, environment strategies (Dev/Test/Prod), pipelines and ALM (Azure DevOps or GitHub) with managed solutions.
• Integrations: design and guide implementation via Dataverse APIs, Webhooks, Power Automate (cloud flows), Azure Functions/Logic Apps where appropriate; promote low-code first patterns.
• Power Pages leadership: site architecture, identity strategies (Entra ID/External Identities), web roles/permissions, Liquid/PCF where needed, and performance/accessibility best practice.
• Quality & delivery: backlog shaping, refined user stories, acceptance criteria, test strategy (solution checker, automated deployments, telemetry), and "smoke tests" for installs.
• Stakeholder leadership: run executive-level workshops; translate policy/process into scalable platform capabilities; maintain a trusted-advisor relationship.
• Practice & pre-sales: shape proposals, estimates, demo storyboards, and proof-of-value builds; coach consultants; contribute to HE thought leadership and community.
• Outcomes & value: define measurable KPIs (cycle time, conversion, service SLAs, adoption), build lightweight dashboards, and hand over enablement materials.

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