UK Home Office Jobs Near Me – Power Platform Developer

About the job

Closing: Sunday 16th October 2023

🚀 What you’ll be doing 🚀

As a Power Platform Developer you will work on software components that form part of a product. You will be involved in designing, running, and improving software that meets user needs and typically work under the guidance of senior colleagues in the team.

You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.

Your main day to day will involve:

• delivering secure, reliable, and scalable software in your team; undertaking a breadth of development tasks
• designing new software using appropriate tools and in line with standards, proving designs through prototyping
• reporting on system performance and supporting test activities; keeping documentation up to date
• supporting services which you have delivered through regular maintenance activities, balancing your work with your leadership
• working with other developers/engineers to deliver new capability, for instance improved CI/CD pipelines or test approaches

👀 About you 👀

We’re more interested in people who understand the methodology and fundamentals rather than specific tools. You’ll be ideal for this role if you have a demonstrable passion for automation and collaboration, with skills or experience in:

• Building Power Platform solutions using Canvas Apps, Model-Driven Apps or other tools provided within the platform.
• Automation using Power Automate or Power Automate Desktop.
• Dataverse or good understanding of basic database design concepts.
• Some experience or awareness of Dynamics 365 and willingness to train further where required to develop and support some D365 solutions.
• a language such as C#, Java or JavaScript, Python
• cloud-based technologies such as AWS or Azure
• continuous delivery and agile ways of working
• supporting live services

💜 Some of the benefits our engineers enjoy 💜

• one of the higher starting salaries across the Civil Service
• a Civil Service pension with employer contribution rates of between 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, plus 8 days public holidays and 1 day for the Queen’s Birthday, rising further with service
• flexible working options to enable you to achieve the work life balance that right for you including part-time, flexi time and job sharing
• training and development opportunities tailored to your role
• an in-year bonus scheme
• a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• season ticket loans and rental deposit loans
• cycle to work and payroll giving
• employee discounts – including a huge number of retailers (via the Edenred platform), Microsoft Home Use programme and gym membership
• a variety of staff recognition schemes including thank you vouchers
• health and wellbeing initiatives including monthly mindfulness sessions
• staff support networks
• maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
• maternity and adoption support leave (paternity leave) of 2 weeks full pay
• up to 5 days paid leave for volunteering
• study leave and support for studying for a qualification or other accredited development relevant to your role