Hybrid Senior Engineer (Specialist) in DIGITAL ENTERPRISE SERVICES bei Bank of England
Bank of England · London, Vereinigtes Königreich · Hybrid
- Junior
- Optionales Büro in London
Our Central Services Directorate is at the heart of the bank, providing vital services such as IT, HR and Procurement, which enable colleagues across the organisation to thrive.
This role is an exciting opportunity for a technical expert to join the newly established Optimisation Unit to deliver and enhance products in the Power Platform ecosystem, streamlining processes, driving automation, and improving operational efficiency across Central Services.
If you're passionate about combining technical expertise with impactful service design, this role offers the chance to shape the future of digital optimisation in a purpose-driven environment.
Role Requirements
The Senior Power Platform Engineer is expected to work with colleagues across Central Services to identify areas of opportunity, provide technical expertise for the platforms and deliver technical solutions. They will also work closely with the central Power Platform Team, to ensure awareness and compliance with Power Platform governance in the Bank and to follow and disseminate best practices within Central Services. The role requires good levels of development competency, experience in Agile and DevOps methodologies and the ability to inform best practice design. It will also require mentoring and peer reviewing along with advising on more complex operational incidents and problems.
Minimum Criteria
In terms of behaviours, we’re looking for someone who will bring the following to the team:
- A high level of integrity, organisation and self-motivation with a desire for self-improvement
- The ability to build effective working relationships with others and provide challenge where appropriate
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Attention to detail with the ability to craft concise, informational user documentation
- Researching and developing solutions that expand, modernise or improve the service and technology portfolios, automate IT operations, reduce costs or increase levels of service, to demonstrate technical ownership
Essential Criteria
We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:
- Minimum of two years’ experience working with Microsoft D365 and Power Platform including Power Apps and Automate
- In-depth experience of solution delivery using the full Software Development Lifecycle. This should include experience of working with the Agile and DevOps methodologies working with continuous delivery, automatic regression testing, TDD and monitoring
- Experience in programming custom .NET workflows and plug-ins
- Good knowledge of Power Pages and Power BI
- Good knowledge of Azure cloud platform especially Logic Apps, Functions and Service Bus
- Good knowledge of agile delivery methodologies as associated toolsets such as Jira
- Knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps toolchains
Desirable Criteria
It would also be beneficial, but not necessary, to have some of the following:
- Excellent .NET and C# skills
- Excellent JavaScript skills
- Knowledge of ITIL framework (understanding of Incident, Problem, Change)
Don't hesitate to apply if you don't meet all the criteria. We value diverse perspectives and believe that different backgrounds can contribute to our team's success.
How this role fits into the technology team:
The Senior Power Platform Engineer works for the Optimisation Unit in Central Services with a secondary reporting line into the Power Platform Team, within the Digital Enterprise Services Domain, of the DGCIO Central Services Division in Technology. Microsoft Power Platform is one of the Bank’s strategic tools.
Your first three months will be spent working closely with the Power Platform Team to align your ways of working and get a good understanding of best practice and guidelines.
You will commit to attending monthly sessions with the central Power Platform Team, and represent your area at forums where you will demonstrate achievements.
A certain amount of your time will be committed to assisting on evergreen platform tasks such as Wave release testing and product roadmaps
Where appropriate, you will attend centrally organised training to maintain high level of product understanding.
- Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
- A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
- An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
- 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
- Private medical insurance and income protection.
The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.