[ref. d32908718] Senior Microsoft 365 Developer - Manchester
In this role you will be working within the Collaboration Engineering team in End User Compute and Collaboration (EUC&C), which is part of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT), to provide Microsoft 365 (M365) services to over 65,000 users across the Home Office.
EUC&C are responsible for all core Home Office end-user services, including the provision and support of devices, including development and support of applications and business critical services such as Exchange, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive.
The Collaboration Engineering team comprises of multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary, product-focused agile squads - including Infrastructure Engineers, Developers, DevOps Engineers, and QA Testers. They ensure Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform services, as well as products built upon these platforms, are integrated, tested, delivered, and operated.
DDaT enables the Home Office to keep the UK safe and secure. They do this by designing, building, and running the services that help people apply for visas or passports, support policing and counter-terrorism operations, and protect the UK’s borders.
Team members have specialised knowledge and a calling to build on it. We want the best people to come to the Home Office and work in the diverse roles and communities they’re passionate about. This is how we produce exceptional outcomes.
The Senior Microsoft 365 Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.
You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.
The Senior Microsoft 365 Developer will mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.
This role is not suitable for part-time working due to the nature of the role.
Tools and Technologies we use:
We are keen for engineers to continue learning new technologies, we have a large range in the Collaboration Engineering team:
- Backend: Azure (Logic Apps, Function Apps, Automation Accounts, App Services), PowerShell (5.1, 7.x, Azure, Exchange, PowerApps, Security & Compliance, SPO, Teams), M365 PnP, M365 CLI, Graph API.
- Frontend: Power Apps, Power Fx, SharePoint Fx (SPfx), Fluent UI, React, JavaScript, C#, CSOM, Adaptive Cards, Lists Conditional Formatting, Copilot Studio.
- Data: Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake.
- DevOps: Azure DevOps, Git, Azure Pipelines, Bicep, Terraform.
- Tooling: Microsoft Dev Box, Visual Studio Code, PowerShell ISE, ShareGate, SharePoint Migration Tool, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- Leading your squad to develop new solutions as well as improving and supporting existing solutions built upon M365, Azure, and Power Platform.
- Delivering secure, reliable, and scalable software, and supporting your team with technical tasks when needed.
- Evaluating and advising on design choices and ensuring that software is high quality and balances technical and business considerations.
- Defining and documenting test cases for new systems and maintaining live systems to ensure ongoing performance.
- Evolving new approaches/solutions with other professions through discoveries, maintaining a focus on development and deployment.
- Helping prioritise and direct technical tasks across your team, to balance new and live services.
- Understanding and evaluating changes to the M365 and Azure platforms, staying up to date with new technologies, and assessing impacts and opportunities.
Like many organisations we need to maintain our services 24/7, therefore, on occasions there may be a requirement to work out of hours, for which you will be paid an additional allowance.