Senior Dynamics Developer - Intellectual Property Office - SEO

The IPO is a modern organisation that 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 role plays a pivotal part in ensuring the core applications are reviewed and continually improved.

Job Summary: 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’s assigned deliveries. The role will also require investigating, diagnosing and fixing any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department.

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 encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Design, code, configure, test and document 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 Power Apps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions.
• Work closely with test engineers to agree on acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage.
• Collaborate with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with the wider team, and champion a 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.
• Deliver highly user‑focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to.
• Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability.
• Explore innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail‑fast fashion to provide required functionality.
• Embrace a continuous improvement ethos.
• Ensure that the team’s test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes.
• Apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 and the Security Policy Framework (SPF).

Behavioural Responsibilities:

• Understand yourself as a leader and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results.
• Engage stakeholders for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team.
• Share knowledge and expertise with the wider team, championing the IPO and Civil Service values.
• Deliver highly focused and successful digital services across multiple multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide project / delivery management support when required.
• Manage and delegate tasks effectively within the team.
• Apply the “progress over perfection” principle.
• Took full responsibility for decisions and deliver outcomes.
• Maintain inner composure, recover quickly from setbacks and learn from experience.
• Be highly driven and inspire 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.
• Guide more junior members in their personal development.
• Coaching and mentoring colleagues.
• Continuously improve technical knowledge and stay abreast of the latest trends.
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and business stakeholders.

Person Specification:

• Key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects.
• Experience 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 of MS Dynamics CRM and Power Apps platform.
• Deep understanding of architectural principles such as SOA and Micro‑Services.
• Technical aptitude.
• Proficiency in one or more of C#, Python, JavaScript, Typescript.
• Experience writing and implementing unit testing.

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.