Description The Service & Team: Cornwall Council Information Services are working to build high quality digital applications for our residents and staff. Software Developers are critical to our success, and we are pleased to offer an opportunity to join us as one of our Principal Developers. We are an Agile team, so you will need to be flexible, adept at working in sprint cycles and comfortable with rapid fail fast principles. We work closely with our customers in smaller iterative deliveries. We’re a friendly team and want new team members who will support our ethos of succeeding and failing as a team. Our team members support each other through mentoring and utilising the diverse range in the team though cross skilling. As a principal developer mentoring will be an important part of your role. We work closely with other development teams within Information Services and share expertise and best practices to ensure a consistent approach across the service. The Role: We have adopted Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform to support multiple business applications across the authority. We’ve already built many applications and we need talented people with software development skills to join our growing team, help us accelerate the roll out of additional applications and to continually exploit new and emerging capabilities. We’re a diverse team of developers with experience spanning front end, UI, UX, back end. We are using Microsoft Dynamics 365 to build internal and external solutions for our customers. Among the tools we use to deliver these are: Dynamics Customer Service including Omnichannel and PVA integration PowerApps portals PowerAutomate/Flows Wider Azure Stack (b2b, b2c, storage, functions, user management & permission handling etc…. ) DevOps, GIT repos and pipelines .Net framework, .Net core, C#, Javascript/Typescript/React, SQL, HTML, SCSS/CSS Power BI You are not expected to know all of the above, however you should consider yourself an expert in one or more of them. This role is focused on the .Net and Azure stack, so will will look for candidates to demonstrate experience in those areas. You are able to lead and direct specialist teams in developing, monitoring, operating and supporting technical customer platforms or solutions. You will be responsible for making decisions on technical approach and solution design. You are outcome focused and collaborate across technologies and seek innovative solutions to meet customer needs. You are able to take high level business requirements & problems and translate these to effective solutions. You enjoy working directly with your customers to help them to solve their business problems and meet their objectives. You understand the importance of designing for consistency, resilience and supportability. This position will be subject to a standard enhanced criminal record disclosure check. Working Pattern: 37 Hours per week, Monday to Friday Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you’ll get in return: Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include: · a competitive salary. · a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions · a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. · A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme · Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services. Flexible working as appropriate A market supplement may be available to the appropriate candidate Additional Information: Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role. The full role profile is attached here We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview. For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact matthew.smith@cornwall.gov.uk Application Process Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application. Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.