Finsys developer (D365) - Hybrid - 24-month fixed term contract in Bristol

United Kingdom Job Description Posted Tuesday 5 May 2026 at 00:00

Salary: From £35,000 per annum (negotiable based on experience) + comprehensive benefits package

Hours: 35 hours per week

Job Type: 24-month fixed term contract

Reports into: Head of FinSys (Financial Systems) Operations

Working style: Hybrid - A blend of working from home and your nominated hub office. We have hubs located in London, Bristol, Manchester and Oxford.

For 30 years Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used. We are uniquely positioned to protect, promote and lead the sector in digital and data transformation, making a difference to students, communities and society. Together, we are working to build a better digital future for education and research. Raise your potential at Jisc through our culture of lifelong learning. At Jisc, we're all about growth, so embrace new challenges, sharpen your skills and shape a career that excites you.

The role sits within Jisc’s Group CTO directorate, home to most of our technical capability and responsible for delivering our digital vision. You’ll be part of Workplace IT, in the Finance Systems Team, which develops and supports the financial systems that underpin our customer-facing work. You’ll focus on developing, supporting, and maintaining the D365 Finance & Operations platform, designing and optimising technical solutions, and providing expert input into enhancements. The team delivers 2nd- and 3rd-line technical support, resolves break/fix issues, and delivers both operational changes and project-based improvements.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide Platform development, system administration, and create/maintain the system and user documentation in-line with Jisc requirements and industry best practice.
• Develop and deliver solutions aligned to the enterprise architecture, Platform and IT strategy, fulfilling the associated governance requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to understand their requirements and priorities, to advise on Platform capabilities to enhance the customer experience (CX), and define this work in the backlog.
• Demonstrate the Platform features to stakeholders, where required, either on-line or in-person.
• Responsible for consistently delivering quality work to time; meeting estimates and deadlines, and achieving a first-time pass through quality assurance/testing.
• Responsible for creating, leading and performing unit tests, debugging, troubleshooting and optimising intermediate code and declarative solutions.
• Provide support to internal and external audit and compliance programmes.
• Ensure compliance on systems by supporting; internal and external audit (e.g. logical access reviews / ISO27001).
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of policy and process within the team to promote best practice and adoption of industry frameworks including Agile and DevOps.

What we are looking for:

• Demonstrable experience creating and modifying new D365 software.
• Experience managing release through environment management.
• Experience developing code through interactive use of VMs.
• A track record of providing support for APIs, integrations and endpoints.
• Ability in developing version agnostic in Azure DevOps (Visual Studio .Net), specifically classes (methods), custom code, and custom data object development.
• Exposure to DevOps/GitHub (code repository project library).

Benefits:

• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments.
• 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes three closure days over Christmas.
• Buy up to an additional 5 days leave during the flexible benefits window.
• A range of wellbeing lifestyle benefits including company paid health care cash plan, mental health first aiders and support.
• A company culture of continuous learning with access to thousands of LinkedIn Learning courses, and lots of resources and opportunities to support your development.
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office.
• Financial well-being support including access to preferential loan and savings plans, mortgage advice, will writing tools and support and resources to help you make the most of your money.
• A wide range of discounts and cashback from retailers and big-name high-street stores.
• Family friendly policies including enhanced parental, maternity and paternity and co-parental leave as well as opportunity for career breaks.
• Support your volunteering with up to 3 days volunteer leave.

Equity, diversity and inclusion: Jisc believe our people make all the difference in cultivating an inclusive culture that welcomes ideas, encourages innovation, and values belonging. We work hard to create an equitable experience for our candidates and workforce which embraces all aspects of their identity including race and ethnicity, religion and belief, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, trans identities, age, class, disability, neurodivergence, or veteran status.

Sponsorship: Jisc has an active sponsor licence to recruit on a Skilled worker visa basis. Candidates wishing to apply who require sponsorship should determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the role by assessing their circumstances against the relevant Home Office criteria. Jisc does not offer any financial reimbursement towards the applicant costs, such as relocation, skilled worker visa and dependant costs or the immigration health charge.