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Job#: 2087111 Type: 18-month Contract Location: United States Schedule: 100% Remote Compensation: $68-75/hr w2 PTO: Accrued 15 days Purpose of the Team
The team focuses on enabling incubation and innovation at Microsoft, building tooling to capture insights and impact across various spaces, and supporting the scaling of these insights to more customers. Key Projects
Projects include developing Power Apps, Power BI dashboards, and Copilot agents using Copilot Studio and Agent Builder, as well as tools for capturing, measuring, and reporting customer insights. Typical Task Breakdown
About 30% of the day is spent in meetings (with stakeholders, internal contributors, and tool builders), and 70% is heads-down work, including documentation and technical tasks. Role Overview
The team is seeking a vendor to assist with operational excellence initiatives. This team consists of highly talented, customer-facing Cloud Solution Architects who deliver paid services engagements aligned to Unified contracts. Responsibilities
Reporting & Analytics:
Manage creation of new reporting to track invested engagements and upsell to incremental services. Define metrics, data sources, semantic model requirements, and wireframes/storyboards for executive dashboards and customer story monthly reporting. Develop a work-back schedule for executive communications, ensuring timely stakeholder alignment, clear milestones, and readiness for leadership reviews and approvals. Process Excellence:
Lead project plans for readiness materials, live training sessions, ongoing change management, and feedback loops for adoption of new processes tracking customer engagements. Drive initiatives such as increasing labor logging rates, improving NBUE code usage, and managing MSX opportunities. Accelerate incubation-to-scale outcomes by producing high-quality documentation/specifications and optionally assisting in tooling development. Lead discovery workshops; author BRD/FRD, process maps, data models, dashboard wireframes, ALM/test plans, and Unified/VBD handoff packets. Feedback Loop & AI Integration:
Create feedback loops for CSAs to suggest improvements to operational processes. Lead project plans to incorporate AI into operational processes, reducing internal time spent by CSAs. Define documentation-first patterns for Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents, including agent instructions, scoping, tools/actions, data sources, autonomy, channels, governance, and analytics for runtime assets/environments. Candidate Requirements
Years of Experience Required: Level 2 role, targeting candidates with 2-4 years of relevant experience. Degrees or Certifications Required: No specific degrees or certifications are mentioned as required. Top candidates will have strong analytic skills, technical expertise with Power Platform and Power BI, experience interfacing with various data sources, and UI/UX design skills. Discovery and documentation experience are also valued. Success is measured by quality, rework-free deliverables, adaptability to changing priorities, and the ability to provide thought leadership and support the intent behind deliverables. EEO Statement
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department.
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Job#: 2087111 Type: 18-month Contract Location: United States Schedule: 100% Remote Compensation: $68-75/hr w2 PTO: Accrued 15 days Purpose of the Team
The team focuses on enabling incubation and innovation at Microsoft, building tooling to capture insights and impact across various spaces, and supporting the scaling of these insights to more customers. Key Projects
Projects include developing Power Apps, Power BI dashboards, and Copilot agents using Copilot Studio and Agent Builder, as well as tools for capturing, measuring, and reporting customer insights. Typical Task Breakdown
About 30% of the day is spent in meetings (with stakeholders, internal contributors, and tool builders), and 70% is heads-down work, including documentation and technical tasks. Role Overview
The team is seeking a vendor to assist with operational excellence initiatives. This team consists of highly talented, customer-facing Cloud Solution Architects who deliver paid services engagements aligned to Unified contracts. Responsibilities
Reporting & Analytics:
Manage creation of new reporting to track invested engagements and upsell to incremental services. Define metrics, data sources, semantic model requirements, and wireframes/storyboards for executive dashboards and customer story monthly reporting. Develop a work-back schedule for executive communications, ensuring timely stakeholder alignment, clear milestones, and readiness for leadership reviews and approvals. Process Excellence:
Lead project plans for readiness materials, live training sessions, ongoing change management, and feedback loops for adoption of new processes tracking customer engagements. Drive initiatives such as increasing labor logging rates, improving NBUE code usage, and managing MSX opportunities. Accelerate incubation-to-scale outcomes by producing high-quality documentation/specifications and optionally assisting in tooling development. Lead discovery workshops; author BRD/FRD, process maps, data models, dashboard wireframes, ALM/test plans, and Unified/VBD handoff packets. Feedback Loop & AI Integration:
Create feedback loops for CSAs to suggest improvements to operational processes. Lead project plans to incorporate AI into operational processes, reducing internal time spent by CSAs. Define documentation-first patterns for Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents, including agent instructions, scoping, tools/actions, data sources, autonomy, channels, governance, and analytics for runtime assets/environments. Candidate Requirements
Years of Experience Required: Level 2 role, targeting candidates with 2-4 years of relevant experience. Degrees or Certifications Required: No specific degrees or certifications are mentioned as required. Top candidates will have strong analytic skills, technical expertise with Power Platform and Power BI, experience interfacing with various data sources, and UI/UX design skills. Discovery and documentation experience are also valued. Success is measured by quality, rework-free deliverables, adaptability to changing priorities, and the ability to provide thought leadership and support the intent behind deliverables. EEO Statement
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department.
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