Apply before 11:55pm on Sunday 29th June 2025
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. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. Opportunities to contribute to the technical strategy are also available.
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.
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 Platform 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 Power platform integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions and SharePoint
Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage
Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders
Identify 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.
Essential criteria
Essential Experience
Experience in delivering technical solutions
Experience with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile
Understanding of DevOps principles
Experience of working with cloud technologies such as Azure
Essential Technical
Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and/ or Power Platform
Benefits
Alongside your salary, Intellectual Property Office contributes £10,307 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
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 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.