Low Code Lead

Job Purpose

The Low Code Lead is responsible for driving the firm’s Power Platform and Copilot Studio adoption, strategy, and governance. Acting as the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for all low code platform-related activities, this role will shape firm-wide enablement, ensuring technical excellence, responsible usage, and measurable value. The Low Code Lead will collaborate extensively across business lines, IT, and international teams to embed low code solutions in line with strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and best practice, while championing a high-performing, innovative, and supportive low code culture within the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Act as Low Code Subject Matter Expert : Serve as the firm’s authoritative expert for Power Platform and Copilot Studio, providing deep technical and functional guidance, resolving complex queries, shaping best practice, and advising leadership on effective, responsible adoption.
• Maintain and Deliver a Roadmap : Develop and own the Power Platform and Copilot Studio roadmap, setting priorities, milestones, and dependencies, and communicating progress to stakeholders to ensure transparent, coordinated, and strategically aligned delivery across the firm.
• Work with G4 Countries to Enable Strategy : Collaborate with G4 country teams and Local Platform Owners to align strategy, share best practice, coordinate roll-out approaches, and support consistent adoption while respecting local priorities, regulation, and operating models.
• Monitoring & Performance (KPIs) : Define, track, and review platform performance metrics, including adoption, usage, outcomes, and risk indicators, using KPIs to assess value delivery and continuously improve effectiveness across the firm.
• Provide Industry Insights : Monitor market trends, competitor adoption, regulatory developments, and emerging use cases for low code platforms, translating external insights into practical recommendations to inform firm strategy, investment decisions, and positioning.

Technical

• Govern Platform : Partner with Group Transformation and lead the definition and maintenance of enterprise-wide governance policies covering security, data protection, AI and Copilot usage, compliance, environment management, and ALM. Regularly review and update policies in response to platform changes, incidents, regulatory developments, audit findings, or material risk events.
• Environment Strategy and Lifecycle Management : Set and maintain global environment strategy and standards, oversee local environment operation and lifecycle, and ensure accurate records and compliance with global controls.
• Test New Platform Features : Evaluate new Power Platform and Copilot Studio capabilities ahead of firm-wide release, assessing functionality, risk, and business value, documenting findings, and recommending adoption, configuration, or constraints in line with firm standards.
• Support Training Available for All : Support delivery of accessible platform training for all staff, including onboarding, role-based guidance, practical use cases, and ongoing learning to support safe, consistent, and effective adoption.
• Provide Super User Training : Deliver advanced training for nominated Super Users and Local Platform Owners, building deep capability to champion adoption, support peers, feedback requirements, and embed high-value platform use across teams and service lines.
• Provide Reporting : Deliver clear, regular reporting on platform adoption, usage, benefits, and risks, providing leadership and teams with transparent insights to track value, inform decisions, and guide continuous improvement.
• Work with Suppliers as Needed : Engage with Microsoft and third-party suppliers to manage platform-related relationships, resolve issues, influence roadmaps, and ensure solutions align with firm requirements, governance, and value expectations.
• Provide a Support Desk : Establish and run a dedicated platform support function, handling user queries, issues, and guidance, triaging complex matters, and ensuring timely, consistent support across the firm.
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) : Define and oversee ALM processes for low code environments, ensuring solutions promoted to production meet ownership, documentation, testing, monitoring, and rollback expectations.
• Copilot Studio and AI Agent Governance : Define enterprise requirements for agents, including permitted data sources, action boundaries, logging, retention, and responsible AI safeguards. Approve or restrict patterns for agent use and ensure local compliance.
• Monitoring, Incidents, and Risk Management : Establish monitoring expectations, risk indicators, and systemic incident thresholds. Coordinate response to major incidents and risks, and oversee local execution and escalation.
• Feedback and Continuous Improvement : Aggregate feedback from local owners, share lessons learned, and incorporate good practices into global standards.

Personal Specification

• A passion for digital innovation and low code platforms, demonstrated through hands-on experience and successful delivery of Power Platform, Copilot Studio, or similar technologies.
• Expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, AI productivity tools, and digital adoption.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders, technical teams, business leaders, and local platform owners across geographies.
• Strong analytical skills in reporting and communicating impact and value to leadership.
• Effective communicator, able to simplify complex topics and build trust at all organisational levels.
• Resilient, pragmatic, and adaptable, able to balance strategic vision with operational delivery in a fast-moving environment.
• Behaviours consistent with firm values, with a focus on ethical, responsible, and inclusive technology adoption.

Certiications

• minimum certifications: PL-900 and AB-900
• PL-400 or AB-100 is a plus.

Behaviours

• Champion a culture of innovation and responsible technology use.
• Actively promote inclusivity, transparency, and compliance in all activities.
• Foster collaboration and feedback to drive continuous improvement.

About Technology & digital solutions

The Technology & Digital Solutions (T&DS) organization is one of the key pillars of Forvis Mazars’ digital transformation. Over the past years, T&DS has been shaping and continuously strengthening a seamless digital environment that enables greater collaboration worldwide, in a safe and trusted context. This empowers Forvis Mazars professionals to deliver more value to clients every day.

To achieve this, the T&DS transformation program has progressively consolidated IT operations from a multi-local model spread across 100+ countries into a global model. This global setup now supports the business, people and clients, while continuously adapting to evolving digital needs, technologies and expectations.

The success and sustainability of this transformation rely on the strong expertise and ongoing commitment of every member of the team. As digital technologies evolve every day, T&DS evolves with them. Joining the Technology & Digital Solutions organization means contributing to a mature, impactful transformation, and helping shape what comes next.