Senior Dynamics Developer - Newport in Ashton-under-Lyne

The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers, systems need to be developed, improved, and maintained. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the core applications are reviewed and continually improved.

You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role, you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department.

As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop.

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Main duties consist of but are not limited to:

• Be responsible for the design, coding, configuration, testing and documentation of large, complex or mission critical applications in a cloud first environment using Dynamics and Power Apps in MS Azure.
• Configure and customise both model-driven and canvas apps.
• Develop Power Automate Flows via connectors to the Dataverse and other data sources.
• Develop PowerApps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions.
• Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage.
• Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork.
• Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to.
• Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability.
• Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality.
• Embrace a continuous improvement ethos.
• Responsible for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes.
• Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF).

Behavioural:

• Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results).
• Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team).
• Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork.
• Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services.
• Provide project / delivery management support when required.
• Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team.
• Applies "progress over perfection" principle.
• Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers.
• Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience.
• Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen.

Personal and Team Development:

• Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills.
• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values.
• Guides more junior members in their personal development.
• Coaches and mentors' colleagues.
• Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends.
• Shares knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team and the business stakeholders.

Essential Experience:

• Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects.
• Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile methodologies.
• Advocate of DevOps principles.
• Experience working in a Microsoft Azure Cloud first team.
• Experience with Azure DevOps.

Essential Technical Experience:

• Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and PowerApps platform.
• Has a deep understanding of architectural principles such as SOA and Micro-Services.
• Technical aptitude.
• Proficiency in one or more of these languages: C#, Python, JavaScript, Typescript.
• Experience writing and implementing Unit Testing.

Benefits:

• Alongside your salary of 47,766, Intellectual Property Office contributes 13,837 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access.
• Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite.
• Hybrid working with no core hours.
• Substantial support for career progression.
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments.
• You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave.

Please note that benefits may be subject to change.

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance. For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.