Power Platform Specialist

Job profile for Power Platform Specialist

**Power Platform Specialist**:

- Brighton with Hybrid working

08/10/2025
- Power Platform Specialist

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

**Salary**

Salary starting from £47,040 per annum dependent on skills and experience

**Contractual hours**

35

**Basis**

Full time

**Job category/type**

Digital / Data / Technology

**Date posted**

24/09/2025

**Job reference**

REQ000191

Job description

**Role title**: Power Platform Specialist

**TPR grade & pay group**: Grade 8 & Digital

**Directorate**: Digital, Data & Technology

**Starting salary**: Salary starting from £47,040 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package, and flexible working arrangements

**Contract type**:Fixed Term Contract - 18 Months

**Location**: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

**The role and responsibilities**

The Power Platform Specialist is a hands-on technical position within The Pensions Regulator’s DDaT Directorate, reporting to the Head of Data Science and Engineering. The specialist leads the design, development, and implementation of Power Platform solutions—primarily Power Automate, with support for Power BI and Power Apps—to streamline business processes, enhance data integration, and improve reporting. Key responsibilities include supporting the establishment of a Centre of Excellence, collaborating across teams to identify automation opportunities, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant.

The role requires strong expertise in Power Automate, working knowledge of Power BI and Power Apps, experience with Microsoft 365, Dataverse, D365, and agile methodologies. The specialist is accountable for delivering robust automation solutions, contributing to strategic digital transformation, and supporting a community of practice around Power Platform and D365.

We support our team in gaining Microsoft certifications using the Enterprise Skills Initiative. There are many opportunities for career growth within the wider DDaT directorate and beyond.

**The role criteria**
- Leading the design and delivery of complex Power Platform workflows to streamline business processes and reduce manual effort.
- Providing light-touch support and guidance on Power Platform development where appropriate.
- Collaborating with colleagues across TPR to identify automation opportunities and advocate for Power Platform adoption.
- Contributing to the setup and governance of the Power Platform CoE, including best practices, standards, and reusable components.
- Ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and compliant with TPR’s governance frameworks and data protection regulations.
- Representing Power Platform capabilities in internal and cross-government forums and contributing to strategic planning for automation and digital transformation.

**The team**

The successful applicant will be joining a multi-disciplinary team focused on process analysis, simplification and automation including business analysts, service design specialists, data scientists and more.

For more information, please see the role description.

**Reward and benefits**

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

**Our culture**

TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.

We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.

**About The Pensions Regulator**

With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions