Power Platform Lead Developer

• A typical day will start with a stand-up meeting alongside a multi-functional team of business analysts, testers, and fellow developers to review progress, blockers, and priorities. Next, you'll focus on some development for the current project you're assigned to; this could be building a complex Power Automate flow, enhancing an existing model-driven app or adding a new webpage to a Power Pages portal. There will be junior developers on the project team who you mentor, so you'll spend some time reviewing a piece of development they have completed and walking them through best practices for component reuse and a scalable design.
• If you're in the office, you'll grab lunch in the canteen with some of your colleagues or go out for a walk around the city if the weather is nice.
• In the afternoon you have a demo scheduled with partners of the project to show them an exciting piece of functionality that you designed and delegated to other developers to work on with your guidance.
• Following this call, you finish documenting a standard methodology guide for solution and environment management. This is to help the wider team improve their knowledge and to ensure deployments are smooth and with minimal disruption.
• Before logging off you'll update the backlog for your project and make some notes for a Power Apps security design meeting you have arranged for the following day.

• The lead Power Platform engineer is expected to provide technical expertise for the platforms and mentor junior developers on the team. The role requires high levels of development competency, experience in Agile and DevOps methodologies and the ability to inform best practice design. It will also require mentoring, coaching and peer reviewing along with advising on more complex operational incidents and problems.

In terms of behaviours, we’re looking for someone who will bring the following to the team:

• A high level of integrity, organisation and self-motivation with a desire for self-improvement
• The ability to build effective working relationships with others and provide challenge where appropriate
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Attention to detail with the ability to craft concise, informational user documentation
• Researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs or increase levels of service, to demonstrate technical ownership

We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft D365 and Power Platform including Power Apps and Automate
• In-depth experience of solution delivery using the full Software Development Lifecycle. This should include experience of working with the Agile and DevOps methodologies working with continuous delivery, automatic regression testing, TDD and monitoring
• Experience in programming custom .NET workflows and plug-ins
• Good knowledge of Power Pages and Power BI
• Good knowledge of Azure cloud platform especially Logic Apps, Functions and Service Bus
• Good knowledge of agile delivery methodologies as associated toolsets such as Jira
• Knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps toolchains

It would also be beneficial, but not necessary, to have some of the following:

• Excellent .NET and C# skills
• Excellent JavaScript skills
• Knowledge of ITIL framework (understanding of Incident, Problem, Change)