Manchester
Job Title Power Platform Developer
Department IT
Location Hybrid – Work from home but travel to Manchester and/or Wigan offices at least 2 days per week
Contract Type Permanent, full-time Working Pattern 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday
Salary To be discussed between ¬£45,000 – ¬£55,000 dependent on experience & qualifications
The Power Platform Developer will contribute to the company’s business objectives by:
• Working closely with stakeholders to design and build solutions on Power Platform and first-party apps.
• Using your strong understanding of the features available within Power Platform to ensure that our products are effective and meet business requirements.
• Understanding business processes and how Power Platform can improve them. • Providing support to users of Power Platform and other solutions Key Responsibilities
• Work closely with business SMEs, BAs and Product Owners to understand business requirements / processes and recommend solutions. • Contribute to the development and refinement of Epics, Features and User Stories in the Product backlog.
• You will be responsible for conducting in depth analysis of our stakeholder’s business issues to improve and extend the functionality of core products roadmap.
• Develop high quality and innovation Power Platform solutions.
• Work with colleagues to support the implementation of new solutions, including contributing to UAT, creating training material and providing post go-live support
• Collaborate with 3rd party IT service providers to develop, configure and customise Power Platform and other solutions
• Maintain techniques to ensure that high quality code can be delivered quickly and efficiently through automation and modern software engineering practices and tools, using effective branching strategies and providing quick effective quality feedback
• You will be responsible for ensuring that we deliver services into operations in line with Information Security Policy Controls Standard and Operations Delivery Processes.
• Lead investigation into bugs / issues and deliver appropriate fixes.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support the assessment, testing and implementation of regular solution upgrades.
• Understand and support the resolution of any issues with applications interfacing into Power Platform and other solutions
• Provide support to users of Power Platform and other solutions and work with external partners to manage 3rd line support arrangements
• Collaborate with business operations teams and technical staff to build strong relationships to drive efficiencies, reduce business risk and improve outcomes for our customers.
• Develop understanding of the current and future technology landscape.
• Ensure company quality standards are adhered to.
• Understand and ensure data protection and standards are adhered to.
• Review external documentation (External clients or Industry) and provide information and solutions that fully meet the expectations of our business and our customers.
Qualifications • Degree or relevant professional qualification.
Experience
• 3 years in Power Platform Developer role
• Experience of developing Power Platform solutions, including Canvas apps and Model-Driven apps
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power Automate (including standard connectors with Power Apps and other associated products)
• Working with power apps to build and configuring forms, views, dashboards, and workflows for our customers.
• Experience as a front-end developer
• Experience of Dynamics 365, ideally Field Service, Business Central and Customer Engagement
• Experience working with third-party vendors
• Understanding of Microsoft Dataverse
• Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
• Holds relevant Microsoft Certifications
• Working in Agile methodologies
• Previous experience in a Support environment
• Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQLXrm ToolBox
• Microsoft Azure Logic Apps
• Microsoft Azure Functions
• Microsoft Azure Data Factory
• Use of Microsoft Dev Ops
• Working within the energy industry.
Skills / Competencies
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to deliver business solutions for programmes/projects, balancing time, cost, and quality.
• Ability to operate and within varied project methodologies.
• Proven ability working with data that underpins business processes, while always preserving data integrity.