This senior developer post sits in Digital Technology Services at HM Courts & Tribunals Service, part of the Ministry of Justice. The work centres on automations and low-code applications built in UiPath and Microsoft Power Platform, with mentoring and ownership of a technical roadmap. It is a full-time permanent role with flexible working and about three days a week in an office, and it requires Security Clearance. Skilled Worker sponsorship is not available to first-time applicants.
What the job involves
- Design, build, test, deploy and document low-code applications and automations in UiPath and Power Platform, following best practice
- Design and develop software based on user stories
- Support and maintain software, including limited out-of-hours work
- Take ownership of the technical roadmap and promote best practice across the development lifecycle
- Mentor junior colleagues and share technical expertise
- Influence product strategy by giving technical insight to stakeholders
- Ensure product security, data confidentiality and integrity, raising risks as needed
- Apply automated testing, peer review, source control and CI/CD to low-code and robotic process automation solutions
- Plan development, coordinate integration and contribute to process improvement
- Manage service availability cost-effectively
- Keep up to date with UiPath, Power Platform and related technologies, identifying opportunities, constraints and technical risks
- Participate in recruitment and procurement
What’s required
Experience
- Proven experience designing, building and supporting enterprise automations in UiPath Studio and Orchestrator
- Monitoring, troubleshooting and fixing failing processes, building resilience to target application changes and managing robot and licence capacity cost-effectively
- Proven track record of mentoring developers, setting technical standards and review practice, and improving engineering practice
- Application lifecycle management and DevOps for Power Platform or UiPath, including environments, solutions, source control and CI/CD
- Strong testing skills and developing and deploying high-quality code
Skills & knowledge
- Hands-on UiPath Studio and Orchestrator, including automation design and reusable workflows
- Systems integration: REST APIs (methods, headers, OAuth 2.0, bearer tokens, status codes, error handling), JSON, data sources and Azure services
- Scripting or custom code (JavaScript, TypeScript, C#) and VB.NET (Invoke Code, custom activities) where low-code is not enough
- Security and governance: data loss prevention policies, Microsoft Entra ID and UK GDPR data protection
- Managing credentials and secrets through Orchestrator credential stores or Key Vault, with least-privilege robot accounts
- Explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
Checks & eligibility
- Security Clearance (SC), normally requiring five years' UK residence
- Eligibility under Civil Service nationality rules
- Legal right to live and work in the UK
Other
- Occasional travel to HMCTS sites in line with business needs
What’s offered
- Annual leave of 25 days rising to 30 after five years, plus public holidays, one privilege day and an option to buy or sell up to three days
- Choice of Civil Service pension schemes
- Training and development opportunities
- Employee-run networks
- Family friendly policies, including reduced hours and job share
- Flexible benefits, retail vouchers and discounts
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
