Sword is hiring a

Power Platform Developer

Glasgow, United Kingdom
Full-Time

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients.  We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications.  We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals. 

About the role: 

Working as a Microsoft Power Platform Developer you will join a highly experienced team who are keen to provide further training and mentorship to allow the right individual to forge a rewarding career focused on the deployment of Microsoft-based solutions.

We are looking for someone with hands-on technical experience who has a real passion for Microsoft products and the Power Platform.

Role Outline:

As a Power Platform Developer you will:

  • Participate in the design, development, implementation and support of Power Platform Solutions on a tactical or project basis for clients
  • Develop integrated applications and innovative, intuitive solutions to automate and enhance business processes using Power Platform, Azure and Microsoft 365
  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to build knowledge, experience, and understanding of new and existing solutions as a team
  • Deploy tools, processes and metrics to aid the development and performance management of future solutions
  • Engage stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, and execute on deliverables

Requirements

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role: 

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following key fundamentals coupled with a desire to build a career in the Microsoft solutions sphere. As a Power Platform Developer you should:

  • Be an expert in Power Platform, including Power Apps (both model driven apps and canvas apps), Power Automate and Microsoft Dataverse
  • Have a proven ability to create professional Power Apps for business users with attractive interfaces, associated views, forms, business rules, relationships and process flows, and be able to incorporate user authentication, data validation and visualisation.
  • Have a good understanding of the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, development and testing
  • Have a strong understanding of Microsoft 365 and component/supporting technologies including SharePoint, Forms, Teams
  • Have experience of integrating Power Apps solutions with Microsoft products, APIs or third-party solutions
  • Have experience of building proof of concept and demos
  • Have excellent communication skills
  • Have a passion for technology and a desire to learn
  • The ideal candidate will have experience in customer facing roles.

Desirable Skills:

The following are desirable but not mandatory:

  • Experience of Power Apps Portals / Power Pages
  • Experience in Agile delivery using Azure DevOps
  • Experience with Azure DevOps (or similar tools) for CI/CD and backlog/progress tracking
  • Experience of .Net Development (C#, MVC) / Dynamics 365 / Azure PaaS (Logic Apps, Functions)
  • Experience working with testing strategies and tools for Power Platform solutions
  • Experience in a consultancy role
  • In terms of location, it is anticipated that this role will involve a blend of remote, office and client site working with a bias toward supporting remote working.

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.  

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.  In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package: 

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth. 

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.  We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can. 

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…. 

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us. 

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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