Power Platform Governance Specialist

This role is an excellent next step for Power Platform professionals who want to expand their impact beyond solution delivery and take more ownership in governance, standards, adoption, and platform enablement.

You do not need prior experience in a formal lead role. We value curiosity, initiative, stakeholder engagement, and the ambition to grow into a broader platform governance position.

Your responsibilities

In this role, you help bring structure to governance while supporting teams and stakeholders to work effectively together.

Support the design and improvement of governance framework for the Power Platform

Define and maintain guardrails, standards, and policies

Support self-service adoption while ensuring security and compliance

Facilitate governance discussions and help drive decision-making across teams

Act as a key contact for Digital Acceleration, Security, and M365 on governance-related topics

Translate decisions into clear guidance for teams

Coach teams on governance practices and their purpose

Align governance with environment strategy, ALM, and DevOps

Support Power Platform administration activities, including environment management, tenant settings, capacity monitoring, connector governance, and admin center follow-up

Govern the IT Automation Framework at platform level, not delivery

Key activities

Your work combines hands-on understanding, improvement, and enablement.

Understand operational pain points and governance bottlenecks

Translate issues into scalable improvements and automation

Facilitate governance sessions and support stakeholder alignment

Define and document governance processes and ways of working

Help teams work autonomously within guardrails

Monitor platform changes and translate them into governance improvements

Perform and coordinate recurring administration tasks such as reviewing environments, monitoring capacity and usage, following up on compliance signals, and supporting operational requests

Your profile

You combine platform understanding with strong stakeholder and coaching skills.

Solid Power Platform knowledge and a good technical foundation

Several years of experience working with Power Platform solutions, governance, or platform-related initiatives

Experience with Power Platform administration topics such as environments, connectors, DLP policies, capacity, tenant settings, or the Power Platform admin center

Comfortable working across technical and organizational domains

Strong communicator and natural connector

Able to facilitate discussions, align stakeholders, and help drive decisions

Coaching mindset with a focus on standards, adoption, and enablement

Technical affinity is important, but this is not primarily a hands-on development role

You may currently work as a Power Platform Developer, Consultant, Functional Specialist, Administrator, or Solution Specialist and are looking for an opportunity to broaden your scope within a growing enterprise platform

What success looks like in 6–12 months

Success means governance becomes more structured, proactive, and less dependent on individuals.

A clear governance structure is in place

Governance boards lead to consistent decisions and follow-up

Alignment with Digital Acceleration and M365 has improved

Governance is less reactive and more proactive

Key processes are documented and reusable

First improvements in automation and scalability are visible

Recurring administration activities are clearly defined, consistently followed up, and connected to the governance framework

What we offer​

In this challenging and responsible position, you will have the chance to make a significant contribution to industry-leading projects and be connected to our dedicated people and customers. We offer a position in an informal, international and professional working environment with a lot of scope for personal development. By joining our profitable and growing company you will be able to reach your goals and focus on your future.​

This position offers a competitive salary range of € 5665 to € 6699 gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance). Through exceeding performance expectations, you even have the possibility to grow outside this scale.

On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:​

• 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).​
• Flexible working hours.​
• A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).​
• A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
• Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.​
• Working from home allowance.​
• Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.​
• On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.​
• Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.​
• A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.​
• And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Your application

Are you interested in this position? Then apply now directly on our workday vacancy link with your resume and a short summary about your interest in this role.

• Application acceptance timeline: In the event of receiving enough suitable applicants, this vacancy can get closed earlier than the mentioned job posting end date.
• Due to process compliance, we cannot process emailed applications. Kindly use the correct vacancy link to apply for this vacancy.

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Background screening

For this position it is possible that a background screening will be conducted. This screening can include checks such as verification of identity, qualifications or other relevant records, which may include criminal background or sanctions list checks, in accordance with our internal policies and applicable laws. Any job offer may be extended under the condition that the screening does not give reason to reconsider the hiring decision. Candidates will always be informed about the process and their rights before any screening is initiated.