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Senior Dynamics Developer
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.
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.
Job description 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 Apps in MS Azure
Configure and customise both model 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 Criteria
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
Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and/or PowerApps platform
Has a deep understanding of architectural principals 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
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For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Developing Self and Others
Delivering at Pace
Working Together
Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: At interview you will be assessed on technical criteria
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 Microsofts 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 whats 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.
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