Lead Power Platform Developer

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a Lead Power Platform Developer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month hybrid contract based 3 days per week in any MoJ UK office. SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

DASO is a CRM-like service built using Power Platform. An experienced Power Platform developer is required to join our team and carry out some immediate remediation tasks that will involve integrating with existing APIs, reviewing the solution as a whole, and upskilling an existing team member.

You should be able to demonstrate experience of:

• Development of delivering enterprise-grade Power Platform model-driven apps
• Integrating external REST APIs with Power Platform model-driven apps
• Building REST APIs to expose data from Power Platform model-driven apps
• Using OAuth/OIDC to secure REST APIs
• CI/CD automated pipeline tooling, including automated test frameworks and deployment of Power Platform apps across multiple environments
• Event-driven microservice architecture
• Documenting and presenting option papers and working with peers to identify appropriate technical solutions and their trade-offs.
• Creating and maintaining Dataverse data models for handling sensitive PII data
• Experience of cloud networking (e.g. VPCs, AWS/Azure bridges, etc), JSON data, AWS SQS, Microsoft Purview, whilst not essential, may be useful

Skills & experience required:

• SC cleared
• Microsoft Certified in Power Platform Solution Architecture, Developer or other relevant Power Platform/Azure technologies would be preferred
• Experience in providing technical leadership to junior developers - guiding, coaching and upskilling where necessary
• Experience in working with a range of non-technical stakeholders with policy, operational or project-management backgrounds
• Experience in promoting knowledge-sharing within and across teams
• Experience working in public sector (central government), knowledge of GDS, handling sensitive PII data would be preferable

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, MOJ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".