Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Power Platform

HM Land Registry ("HMLR") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to shape, provide oversight and manage the implementation and maintenance of Microsoft Power Platform solutions within a brand-new PowerApps team in IT Operations at HMLR. Starting salary of £54,388 to £61,850 dependent upon interview assessment plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 28% pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Plymouth.

HMLR's ambition is to become the world's leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. Their existing software systems and services form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion enabling over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.

The Power Platform team sits within the IT Operations Practice, a new team to the organisation and will form part of a wider group of infrastructure engineering teams which design, deliver and support corporate services, for 6500 internal users with some exciting deliverables already rolled out for testing such as a new Desk Booking application.

This role is to provide leadership to the team and engage with other Lead Infrastructure Engineers, Technical Leads, Delivery Leads, New Service Managers and Architects to deliver solutions to agreed designs. You will lead and manage the implementation, and maintenance of Infrastructure and Microsoft Power Platform solutions, provide guidance, mentorship, and oversight to the Power platform team, ensuring the reliability, scalability, development, and security of our Power Platform environment.

The role holder will champion and lead on taking forward technical consolidation and/or improvement activities providing guidance and leadership to technicians throughout the IT Operations Practice and wider.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead on the design, development and maintenance of Microsoft Power Apps solutions running on the Power Platform, using Power Fx low code programming.
• Use Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Microsoft Co-pilot Studio and other Power Platform related technologies to create low code solutions if and where necessary.
• Lead on engagement with stakeholders to understand business needs required for the development of Power Apps.
• Support end-users adoption of Power Platform technologies.
• Leading on the creation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines for Power Platform and Azure Services
• Take a leading role in the technical development of staff within the practice helping understand technical skills and capability required now and in the future
• Task manage technical staff resource as required, setting them clear objectives and tracking them to completion whilst providing appropriate feedback to line managers.
• There will be line management responsibility, previous experience is desirable

Essential skills:

• Strong knowledge of Power Platform components (Power Apps / Power Automate / Power BI / Microsoft Co-pilot Studio)
• Some scripting or programming knowledge (e.g. C#, ASP.Net, Ruby, Java, Python, Power Fx, JavaScript)
• Experience of implementing and managing Power Platform components and infrastructure solutions and administration tasks within the Power Platform environment.
• Experience of optimising power apps to increase performance
• Evidence of planning and managing significant technical change.
• Effective communication skills, including the ability to interact and build working relationships with stakeholders.

Location

Expectation is to be working from the Plymouth office 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week).

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of circa £62,000 HM Land Registry contributes £9,881 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme and the following benefits:
• Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
• Personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
• Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
• Attractive pension options inc. 28% Civil Service Pension contribution
• Social and sports club
• Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
• Interest-free loan for season tickets
• Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
• HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.

Further information

This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.

This posy may include participation in an on-call rota, subject to additional pay.