Senior Dynamics 365 CE Developer

Key Group; Preston; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Holiday purchase scheme

Charity day

Wellbeing day

Pension: 5% Employee and 8% Employer

Health cashback plan

Life Assurance x4 salary

Job summary

Key Group, a leading UK financial services firm, seeks a Senior Dynamics 365 CE Developer to act as Technology Lead for Microsoft Platforms. You will guide design, development, governance, and support of our Dynamics 365/Power Platform estate, driving platform innovation and automation.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, own ALM/DevOps practices and mentor engineers to deliver secure, scalable solutions aligned to business goals.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience delivering and supporting Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions.
• Experience developing Dynamics 365 customisations, plugins, workflows and integrations.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft platform security, governance and best practices.
• Experience with API integrations and DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, leading design, development and deployment.
• Advocate development standards, governance and security.
• Identify automation and digital transformation opportunities with business teams.
• Lead solution design reviews, code reviews, and technical assurance activities.
• Ensure ALM and DevOps practices are effective; develop and maintain integrations.
• Mentor developers and promote continuous technical improvement.
• Translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.

Skills

Dynamics 365

Power Platform

APIs

DevOps/CI-CD

Security governance

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant Power Platform and D365 qualifications

Tools

Azure

Power Automate

GitHub Actions

Job description

Key Group is one of the most exciting, forward-thinking brands in financial services, focused on helping people unlock a better retirement since 1998. We are later life lending experts, with a market leading specialism in equity release. We offer later life lending advice and solutions to help homeowners across the UK unlock a better retirement by accessing some of the wealth tied up in their properties. Or as we like to say, retirement finances, unlocked. Our portfolio of brands comprises of Key (the Adviser) More2Life (the Lender) and Air (Adviser software service).

We are looking for a Senior Dynamics 365 CE Developer to join us as our Technology Lead for Microsoft Platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design, development, governance and support of business solutions. The role provides technical leadership across the Microsoft application estate, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned to business objectives.

Working closely with business stakeholders, Product Owner and Developers, the postholder will drive platform innovation, automation opportunities and best practice adoption while managing, mentoring and developing technical resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead and subject matter expert for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, leading the design, development and deployment of the estate.
• Advocate best practice for development standards, governance and security.
• Support business teams in identifying opportunities to improve processes through automation and digital transformation.
• Lead solution design reviews, code reviews and technical assurance activities.
• Ensure effective application lifecycle management (ALM) and DevOps practices.
• Develop and maintain integrations with internal and third-party applications.
• Mentor developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.

Experience & Skills

• Significant hands-on experience delivering and supporting Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions.
• Experience developing Dynamics 365 customisations, plugins, workflows and integrations.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft platform security, governance and best practices.
• Experience with API integrations.
• Experience with DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
• Proven experience with complex technology solutions.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving skills.

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience with Power Automate Desktop
• Experience with Test Automation
• Experience with wider Azure technologies.
• Relevant Power Platform and D365 Qualifications
• Strong stakeholder management skills

Most of all we look for people who display and work around the core values of our business:

• Ambitious - to break ground to help our customers enjoy a better retirement.
• Supportive - relationships are key to everything we do.
• Personal - going above and beyond to offer exceptional service.
• Integrity - honest, true and transparent in all of our relationships.
• Responsive - whatever the challenge we'll deliver the right result.
• Expert - experts in our field, our thirst for knowledge never stops.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays. Rising to 28 days based on length of service
• Additional holiday purchase scheme
• 1 extra day to carry out charity work, and another day for your choice of wellbeing activity
• Pension: 5% Employee and 8% Employer
• AXA Exec (Self) or Simply health cashback plan
• Life Assurance x4 salary