Lead Dynamics Developer - IPO - G7 (IT)

Government Digital & Data; Newport; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government organization in the United Kingdom is seeking a technical lead to oversee the design, coding, and testing of cloud applications. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, assist in staff development, and support the recruitment of technical specialists. This role involves working extensively with Dynamics and Power Apps within MS Azure.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the team's design, coding, testing, and documentation of applications.
• Support staff, provide guidance, and resolve issues daily.
• Manage day-to-day line activities like 1-2-1s and development of IDPs.
• Assist in recruiting permanent and contract technical specialists.
• Configure and customize Dataverse/Dynamics entities and forms.
• Develop PowerApps integrations with Azure components.
• Support upgrades and maintenance of the PowerApps platform.
• Identify and manage problems, incidents, risks, and issues.
• Build automated tests for continuous deployment environments.
• Implement APIs for integration, performance optimization, security, and scalability.
• Exhibit leadership and understand its impact on project teams.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the team's design, coding, testing and documentation of large, complex or mission critical applications in a cloud first environment using Dynamics and Power Apps in MS Azure
• Work alongside the Head of Development and Digital Engineering to support staff, provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day-to-day basis
• Day-to-day line management activities such as 1-2-1s and development of IDPs
• Support in the recruitment of permanent and contract technical specialists for the delivery teams
• Configuration and customisation of Dataverse / Dynamics entities and forms
• Development of PowerApps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions
• Supporting upgrades and maintenance of the PowerApps platform
• Identify and manage problems, incidents, risks and issues
• Build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environments
• Implement APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability
• Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results)
• Work alongside the Head of Digital Engineering to support staff, provide guidance and facilitate issue resolution on a day-to-day basis