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We’re creating and evolving digital services for the public and our staff. These include delivery of websites and portals with a focus on user experience that is heavily influenced by GDS standards.
This role sits within our Development practice and works as part of a multidisciplinary Agile Development team. It is primarily focussed on applying strong Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform development skills to deliver user-centred products.
You'll design, configure and develop case and customer management solutions using Dynamics 365 CE and associated Power Platform and Azure capabilities. (We have built a standard platform and set of patterns based on the Dynamics 365 platform and are now extending its application to address a wider range of business and customer needs. Our approach includes a customer-facing experience built with Power Apps Portals and Azure AD B2C and integrations to business systems via Azure Service Bus and Logic Apps.) You will be part of the team building this out further to more services across the council.
Your main duties will be:
- Working as part of an Agile Development team to design, configure and develop case and customer management solutions for staff and citizens.
- Working with other developers to integrate Dynamics 365 solutions via APIs to back-end business applications.
- Applying ALM skills around continuous integration and continuous deployment as part of our DevOps evolution.
- Unit testing own work, participating in peer review of other’s work.
- Troubleshooting and issue resolution across existing live services where necessary.
- Communicating effectively with other Software Engineers and other key members of project teams to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
- Transitioning technical solutions into production through contributing to effective documentation and handover to operational service teams.
In a typical working day, you will
- Work on designing, building, configuring and unit testing items from the sprint backlog.
- Attend agile ceremonies and a variety of online meetings as necessary throughout the week to discuss the projects that you are working on with people in the team – for example work estimation, problem solving, peer review.
- Be part of a supportive and productive agile development team that is building solutions with modern technology.
- Be learning all the time and diversifying your skills through working with other software engineers, testers, and analysts.
Examples of the type of projects you work on could include:
- Providing new digital tools to support our Social Care teams.
- Extending the services available via our public website portal.
- Delivering new mobile solutions to our Streetcare teams.
What we need from you
- You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills including explanation of technical information to non-technical audiences verbally and through documentation.
- You will have a degree in a computer related field, or the equivalent demonstrable technical expertise and/or relevant technical qualifications, suitable for working in a complex environment.
- We require you to have experience in development methodologies and of working in an agile environment.
Technical skills: - You should have significant demonstrable experience of:
- Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement design, configuration & development
- Design of logical data models
- Power Apps (model-driven apps, canvas apps and portals) development
- Power Automate flow development
- Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) on the Power Platform.
- Working with SOAP and REST APIs (including JSON and XML)
- Ideally you will have some experience of:
- Azure PaaS services such as Web Apps, Logic Apps, Functions
- Implementing solutions with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, ReactJS
- OAuth and hybrid identity
- YAML in the context of continuous integration/continuous deployment
- You will be familiar with Microsoft technology stack including:
- SharePoint, Office 365
- PowerShell, Azure CLI
- Azure AD
- It is essential that you have had day-to-day exposure to development tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira, Visual Studio Code, Terraform, GitHub as well as Dynamics-specific tools such as XRM Toolbox, all within the context of an agile development process.
Please note: This is not a datacentre, infrastructure, IaaS, SharePoint, Teams, or Exchange engineering role. You must have strong Dynamics 365 developer experience.
How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.
- As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
- We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.
For further information, please contact Andrew Jones, Design and Transition Manager ([email protected] or 01454 865275)
