Power Platform Developer / Configuration Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design and Development
• Configuration Engineering
• Integration and Data
• Testing and Quality Assurance
• Security, Compliance and Governance
• Service Support and Continuous Improvement
• Collaboration and User-Centred Delivery

The Power Platform Developer / Engineer will design, configure, build, test and support digital solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform.

The role will help transform manual, paper-based or inefficient business processes into secure, user-centred and maintainable digital services.

The postholder will work with product managers, business analysts, service owners, architects, testers, data specialists, security teams and end users to develop solutions that meet business needs, comply with government standards, and support wider digital transformation.

This role combines low-code configuration, pro-code development, integration, automation, data modelling, testing, support and platform governance.

Technical Skills

• Essential Skills and Experience
• Development And Engineering Skills
• Desirable Skills And Experience

Essential Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate experience in: Developing and configuring solutions using Microsoft Power Platform.

Building Power Apps, including canvas apps and model-driven apps.

Creating and maintaining Power Automate cloud flows.

Working with Dataverse, including tables, relationships, forms, views and security roles.

Using Microsoft 365 data sources such as SharePoint Lists, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

Managing Power Platform solutions across development, test and production environments.

Understanding Power Platform environment strategy, connectors, DLP policies and governance.

Applying testing, documentation and deployment practices.

Troubleshooting issues across apps, flows, data sources and permissions.

Understanding accessibility, security and data protection considerations.

Development And Engineering Skills

The postholder will: Design, build, test, correct and document applications or configurations.

Apply modern development standards and reusable design patterns.

Write clean, maintainable and secure configuration or code.

Use structured testing and release methods.

Support services through development, transition and live operation.

Work collaboratively in an agile, multidisciplinary environment.

Desirable Skills And Experience

Desirable experience may include: Experience with Power Pages.

Experience with Copilot Studio.

Experience with Power BI integration and reporting.

Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub or Microsoft Power Platform pipelines.

Experience with Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions or API integrations.

Experience of working in a UK government, public sector or regulated environment.

Understanding of the GDS Service Standard, accessibility requirements and government digital delivery phases.