Senior Dynamics Developer in London

About the job

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 is a rolling recruitment exercise. Applications will be assessed at regular intervals against the published criteria. Selection decisions will be made on merit, following fair and open competition, in line with the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. We may appoint candidates as assessment stages are completed and may close the advert early or create a reserve list where sufficient candidates are identified.

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:

• 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.

Person specification

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.

How to Apply

Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by providing the following: Your CV. Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc. Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Developing Self and Others, Delivering at Pace, Working Together.

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. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. 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.

For more information about what's on offer at the Intellectual Property Office please review our IPO benefit pack attached to the bottom of this advert. Please note that benefits may be subject to change.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. Additional details on security and vetting. 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 of 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.

Stage 1 Sift

An initial sift of applications will be carried out to create a shortlist. This will be based on the evidence provided for the following Success Profile elements: Experience. Your CV will be used to assess your suitability for the role.

Stage 2 Interviews

If invited to interview, Behaviours and Technical based questioning will be used. Please note candidates that proceed to the interview stage will be required to deliver a presentation against the Technical Success Profile. Further details will be provided in the invite to interview information. Specific information regarding the Success Profile elements that will be assessed at interview will be contained within the interview invitation. Interviews for this role will be carried out virtually via Microsoft Teams (video).

This recruitment campaign will keep a reserve list for 12 months. If you meet the requirements for this role but aren't offered after passing the interview, you'll be placed on the reserve list. If a suitable position opens up during this time, we will reach out to individuals in merit order.

Applicants to note: CVs sent direct to the IPO will not be accepted. There may be important information contained within the job role profile candidates may also wish to refer to. We recommend candidates download and save a copy of the role profile for reference.

This post is being advertised to Internal, across Government and external candidates at the same time. Incomplete and/or late submissions will not be accepted or considered. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We do not routinely reimburse travel expenses for candidates, however, if participating in the selection process would cause you undue financial hardship or if it restricts your ability to participate, please contact the recruitment team for more information.

In line with Government guidance, successfully appointed candidates will need to provide documents for our Right to Work checks. Information on this will be sent within the invite to interview text. Please be aware that only one application per candidate is permitted for each recruitment campaign. Multiple applications, including those made using different accounts, may result in your application being withdrawn or rejected at any stage of the process.

For more information on the IPO's terms and conditions, please review the attached IPO Modernised Terms and Conditions document attached at the bottom of this advert. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020, Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service.

Further information on nationality requirements.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

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