? Business Unit: Chief Operating Office

? Salary range: £41,600 - £57,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits

? Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK

? Contract Type: Permanent

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✨ Our Team

The BizApps Centre of Excellence (COE) is a key enabling function within the bank, promoting, accelerating, and governing the adoption and delivery of the Microsoft Business Applications platform. We are at the heart of our digital strategy, working with the latest technology offerings and with our COE services highly in demand, it makes this an incredibly exciting time to join the team.

We are looking for an experienced Power Platform Admin to support our platform operations, provisioning, managing, and maintaining our Power Platform environments and services, facilitating the enablement of users and the deployment of solutions and service updates, and overseeing the day-to-day monitoring and management of our Power Platform services to ensure service effectiveness. Your work will be varied and high pace, but more importantly, interesting and fun! Sound good? Then read on and apply…

? What you’ll be doing

• Day-to—day management of our Power Platform environments across our pro—dev and citizen-developer communities, provisioning, configuring, and enabling services in line with approved design patterns and best practices to meet business and operational requirements.

• Managing user access processes, setup of security controls and application of licenses for the Power Platform to enable projects/squads to quickly mobilise and for the business to maintain operational effectiveness once live.

• Monitoring and troubleshooting the performance, security, capacity, availability, and reliability of the Power Platform, providing MI reports to support governance reviews and leadership updates.

• Working with our COE SMEs to build and enable foundational service components to support new service design patterns and evergreen capabilities to enable projects/squads to develop on these.

• Providing technical input to the Release Management process such that change is effectively managed and deployments appropriately prioritised and scheduled.

• Working with COE SMEs to assess evergreen change for the Power Platform, identifying and impact assessing changes to key service components in-use. This includes the Microsoft Wave Releases and product specific updates.

• Keeping up to date with the latest features, updates, and enhancements of the Power Platform components and services

✔ We need you to have

• Relevant experience in configuring, managing, and deploying solutions using the Microsoft Power Platform, including Dynamics 365 (Customer Service, Sales and Customer Insights), Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents and Power B.

• A solid understanding of the Microsoft Power Platform architecture, components, and services, specifically Power Platform environments, Dataverse, Admin Centre and Azure Active Directory.

• A working knowledge of Azure DevOps, with experience in provisioning and deploying pipelines and projects for the Power Platform.

• A proficiency in using PowerShell, REST APIs, and developer tools to automate administrative tasks.

• Knowledge of the licensing and governance models for the Microsoft Power Platform and how to optimize the usage and cost of the platform.

• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, demonstrate the value proposition of the Microsoft Power Platform and provide guidance and support for adoption and change management.

? It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Knowledge and experience in using the COE Starter Kit,

• Knowledge and experience of Azure Power Platform integrations and services such as Azure Application Insights, Azure Service Bus, Functions, Logic Apps and Synapse link. It would also be beneficial to have experience in Microsoft Digital Contact Center Platform and Open AI.

• Microsoft certification: PL-900 (Power Platform Fundamentals), AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals)

? Red Hot Rewards ?

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more

• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year

• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt

• Market-leading pension

• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance

• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness

• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can ?‍♀️? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.