Power Platform & AI Engineer

About the Role Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team that's revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology, with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases. As an employee, you'll be part of a continually growing organization, working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide, contributing to global health initiatives. Moderna's commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience, with the potential to make a significant impact on patients' lives worldwide. We are seeking a Power Platform & AI Engineer to support the development, administration, and adoption of Microsoft Power Platform and AI-powered automation solutions within Moderna's Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE). This role combines platform administration, governance, hands-on development, and enterprise enablement to scale secure, AI-driven automation across the organization. This is a high‑impact, hands‑on role for a self‑starter who operates with a product mindset, treating the Power Platform as an internal product and driving both adoption and business value. What You'll Do

• Microsoft Power Platform Administration & Governance: Support administration of Power Platform across development, validation, and production environments.
• Support implementation and maintenance of the Power Platform CoE governance framework, including: Environment strategy and lifecycle management; Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and connector governance; Security roles, licensing, and access controls
• Apply and support platform guardrails to ensure solutions are secure, compliant, scalable, and supportable.
• Manage solution lifecycle (ALM), including promotion, versioning, and change management.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
• Maintain the platform in a GxP-qualified state, ensuring compliance with validation requirements in regulated environments.
• Maintain system documentation and support updates as platform capabilities evolve, including System Administration SOP, Use and Operation SOP, Configuration/Design Specifications (CDS).
• Ensure all changes follow appropriate validation, documentation, and audit readiness processes.
• AI Automation Architecture & Delivery: Design, develop and support AI-first automation solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate and Copilot Studio.
• Contribute to solution design decisions and recommend appropriate use of Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, or hybrid approaches.
• Develop production-grade solutions, including: Power Apps applications (Canvas and Model-Driven Apps); Power Automate workflows and process automations; Copilot Studio agents and conversational experiences.
• Lead prompt engineering and conversational design, including topics, triggers, and escalation paths.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify and implement AI-driven automation opportunities.
• Integrate solutions with Microsoft 365 and enterprise platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, APIs).
• Contribute reusable patterns, templates, and components to support scalable development.
• Ensure operational excellence with logging, monitoring, alerting, and exception handling.
• Evaluate when to extend solutions with RPA technologies (e.g., UiPath).
• CoE Enablement, Adoption & Citizen Developer Support: Support enterprise-wide adoption of Power Platform.
• Contribute to adoption metrics and reporting, including Active makers, Automation usage, Business value delivered, etc..
• Develop and deliver structured training programs, workshops, and onboarding pathways.
• Participate in Community of Practice (CoP) activities and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Support office hours and hands-on advisory sessions to support makers.
• Provide architecture guidance, design reviews, and production readiness reviews.
• Provide guidance and support to citizen developers and business users on secure, scalable patterns.
• Enable a federated development model with strong central governance.
• Platform Operations, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement: Monitor platform health, performance, usage, and failures across AI and automations.
• Build dashboards (Power Platform analytics, Power BI) to track: Adoption and engagement; Operational risk and failures; Business impact
• Contribute to continuous improvement of governance, tooling, and development standards.
• Stay current on Microsoft roadmap and new platform capabilities and share recommendations with the team. What We're Looking For
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience as Microsoft Power Platform administrator and hands-on developer in an enterprise environment.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio.
• Experience designing and developing enterprise-grade Power Apps (Canvas Apps and/or Model-Driven Apps).
• Experience designing end-to-end Power Platform solutions that combine Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Dataverse, APIs, and enterprise systems.
• Experience designing and delivering AI-driven automation solutions.
• Experience integrating with enterprise systems via APIs or MCP servers.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to support production‑grade AI and automations. Nice to Have
• Experience with UiPath (development and/or administration).
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., pharma, healthcare, GxP, SOX).
• Experience with scripting (PowerShell, Python) to complement automation workflows.
• Power Platform certifications (PL‑400, PL‑500, PL‑600, PL‑200, PL‑100, Copilot Studio‑related certifications).
• Strong communication skills. Compensation & Benefits Not specified