Director of Engineering

Fox Point Recruitment LLC; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruitment firm is seeking an experienced professional for a hybrid role in London. You will be responsible for designing, building, and configuring applications to meet business process requirements while leading teams through Azure cloud migrations. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Power Platform and Microsoft Azure, as well as excellent leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Power Platform including Canvas Apps and Automate.
• Experience in designing cloud systems using Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to analyze, implement, and guide migration to Azure cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and configure applications for business processes.
• Lead and provide technical guidance during solution development.
• Develop technical roadmaps for future Azure cloud implementations.

Skills

Power Platform Canvas App Configuration

Microsoft Azure

CI/CD methodologies

Agile methodology

Software Development

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

DevOps

PowerShell

Jenkins

Job description

Job Location:Hybrid (Office + Home), London, United Kingdom

Company Description

Our client is a platform and solutions company that simplifies business processes, improves customer experiences, and creates exceptional business value for forward-thinking enterprises. We utilize human and applied intelligence, cognitive solutions, conversational platforms, and SaaS solutions to accelerate growth, innovation, efficiency, and resilience.

Role Description : Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.

Technical Experience:

• Good experience in Power Platform Canvas App Configuration, Canvas App Functions, OOB Connectors, Power Portals, Power Automate, Power Automate Desktop, Power BI Reporting
• Good Experience on using Standard Connectors and Premium Connectors
• Design cloud and hybrid systems that use Microsoft Azure including computing, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Good knowledge on governance, data platforms, disaster recovery, virtualization, identity management, and IT operations.
• Experience on hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Work with IT function understand customer requirements across the IT services and recommend technical solution to meet the business needs
• Develops technical roadmaps for future Azure cloud implementations.
• Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts
• Execute the hands-on implementation of proposed solutions and providing technical guidance to teams during the solutions development and deployment phases.
• Estimation and outlining of the solutions needed to implement cloud migration as well as continued operations.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate the assumptions, issues, and risks that occur throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide technical direction and lead a group of one or more architects addressing a common goal.
• Design and implement Office 365 and Azure AD Premium's advanced features, such as security, governance, and compliance
• Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Azure Platform's features and functionalities is required. These include security, firewalls, Redis cache, key vault, etc.
• Designing and implementing ADFS identity solutions for applications other than Microsoft Office 365
• Creating Microsoft Azure solutions following project requirements and predefined criteria
• Driving cloud security, privacy, and compliance decisions through design and technical discussion concerns for size, performance, agility, and HA/DR
• Configure and manage customer Azure cloud environment for clients
• Ability to analyze systems and identify problems migrating to Azure cloud
• Implement CI/CD-based application development methodologies using tools like Devops, PowerShell, Jenkins etc.
• Work with clients to ensure smooth and successful implementation, delivery, and deployment of complex solutions

Qualifications

• Engineering Management and Team Leadership skills
• Expertise in Software Development and Project Management
• Experience with integration technologies and strategies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects effectively
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or related field
• Experience working in the technology industry
• Experience with Agile methodology is a plus