Lead Microsoft Applications Developer (MS/Azure)

Lead Microsoft Applications Developer (MS/Azure) is urgently required by our Global IT Services Company for an initial 6 months rolling contract, to be based remotely from home, UK. (UK Only).
Responsibilities & Skills:
The successful applicant will be an experienced Microsoft Lead Applications Developer
The Microsoft Lead Applications Developer will be responsible for delivering enterprise integration solution using Microsoft development tools and frameworks, supporting and delivering a number of solutions to customers using the Microsoft stack of Technologies.
The role will involve working on well-established System Integration projects delivering mission critical enterprise solutions to customers.
Experience of as many of the following: developing technology solutions for large complex business change programmes, MS Azure Platform, MS DevOps (VSTS), setting up a continuous delivery and Integration pipeline including automated testing and deployment using Azure Devops, Azure SQL Server (OLTP), C#, PowerShell, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices , web services, including JSON and XML.
Knowledge of as many of the following: Power Apps application development, Power Automate development, Azure components (Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Logic Apps, Azure Automation, Azure Batch and Azure Service bus), using version control systems Git,
Developing API's using logic apps, azure functions and azure API-management.
Automated Testing using BDD and TDD approach. Provisioning automated secure cloud Infrastructure using tools such as ARM Templates/ Terraform.
Understanding of Agile, Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
Automation of Infrastructure. Repeatable patterns, pipelines, and security integrations.
Variety of databases and programming languages, e.g. SQL Server, .NET, C#, Java.
Latest information technologies including their pros and cons in the context of large organisations.
Integration Architectures and patterns, including knowledge of Enterprise Service Bus.
Working knowledge of data warehousing, data lakes, data migration and Big Data.
Good secure coding standards such as OWASP.
Auditing and monitoring approaches and tools.
Excellent client facing experienceThis is an urgent requirement; please apply as soon as possible if you would like to be considered. Please apply via this site in the first instance, or send a CV to
The Company
A leading global IT services organisation with 10,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly £2 billion in the UK alone. Projects delivered for private, Government, International and Defence customers are some of the largest and most technically innovative solutions found in the world. Their business is rapidly expanding to meet current and future commitments due to numerous exciting programmes currently being developed. These solutions will use the latest technology to resolve some of the most complex requirements for a challenging group of customers.
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