Lead Power Platform Engineer

About Us 

We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day. 

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.  

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.  

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you! 

About the Role 

Working closely with a diverse team of colleagues, you will play a vital part in designing, developing, testing and deploying custom applications and workflows that leverage the Power Platform. This is key to achieving our client service delivery ambitions, ensuring we are delivering bespoke, efficient, and valuable cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients’ needs.

We’re looking for a confident Lead Power Platform Engineer with sound knowledge of the engineering lifecycle who can act as a subject matter expert for Power Platform, working with our Business Analysts to translate business requirements into technical designs and integrate the Power Platform with 3rd party systems and applications or cloud-based SaaS services; you will also act as technical lead to ensure compliance with data governance policies and practices.

Using your current knowledge of Microsoft’s Power Platform, you will help us create a Power Platform Centre of Excellence that will use Power Apps, SharePoint, Power Automate, and Microsoft Teams technologies, creating data integrations with 3rd party systems with a focus on business process and automation.

Responsibilities include:

• Engineer software solutions, working with prototypes, proof of concepts and developing fully functioning applications
• Rapidly build user design-led application with a rich UI experience
• Responsible for developing Power Apps model and canvas driven apps
• Utilise problem-solving skills to understand process pain points and troubleshoot as challenges arise
• Installation and configuration of data gateways
• Development of Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, Azure Functions and analytics integration
• Provide architecture, configuration, administration, and functional support to expand capabilities in Microsoft 365 technologies, including a focus on keeping up to date with developing solutions and future roadmap of Microsoft
• Design end-to-end solutions that improve collaboration, productivity, and knowledge sharing
• Identify areas and processes where Microsoft 365 can be better leveraged and facilitate process improvement

About You 

If you are naturally a helper, enjoy assisting people with data related issues and able to explain technical details simply, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will be a person our customer’s trust. They will rely on you to provide timely and accurate solutions to their technical problems. Some of the key skills we are looking for include:

• You have commercial experience in the building and running solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform eco-system whether it be using Power Apps, Power BI or Power Automate
• You can demonstrate how you’ve used the Power Platform to solve real world enterprise problems
• You’ve completed or working towards completing the suite of Microsoft certifications for Power Platform accreditation
• You understand the Power Platform licencing model
• Ideally, experience of using Microsoft Azure and associated services, and other Microsoft technologies

Don’t meet every single requirement?

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box, but we realise the “perfect candidate” doesn’t exist. If you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may just be the right candidates for this or other roles!

Some of the Perks 

• Flexible benefits allowance – you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more)
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual’s need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and other
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH
• Discounts – we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals 
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Training opportunities and incentives – we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• Giving back – the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join– quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get together.
• GymFlex gym membership programme

Please note: any applicants must be able to gain valid SC clearance.