Dynamics Developer - Newport in Littleton

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. Opportunities to contribute to the technical strategy are also available.

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.

Working Style

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:

• Technical

• 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 Platform 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 Power platform integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions and SharePoint.
• Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage.
• Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Identify 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.

• 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.
• Keep an open mind and explore innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality.
• Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values.
• Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills.
• Embrace a continuous improvement ethos.

• 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.
• Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills.

Person specification

Essential Experience

• Experience in delivering technical solutions.
• Experience with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile.
• Understanding of DevOps principles.
• Experience of working with cloud technologies such as Azure.

Essential Technical

• Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and/or Power Platform.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £36,736, Intellectual Property Office contributes £10,642 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.