Senior Power Platform Developer

Valcon
London
1 year ago
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Who are Valcon:

Valcon is a north-western European consulting, technology and data company based in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and even Croatia.


Valcon is private equity backed and in recent years has bought together some of the most exiting companies from these companies to form one of the brightest and most exciting consultancies around.


We’re one of the fastest growing companies across Europe and have no plans to stop.


What do we do:

Our mission is to combine premium consulting with deep technology and data knowledge to add value to our clients.


The opportunity:

Valcon UK is seeking Power Platform Developers to join our growing Intelligent Process Automation capability group within our Technology Practice.


Overview of Technology Practice:


We’re at the forefront of empowering the future of work, helping organisations of all sizes achieve their goals. For large enterprises, we eliminate manual labour through automation and intelligent tools, boosting knowledge worker productivity. Across the board, we build high-quality, performant and user-friendly solutions that leverage the latest technologies to deliver exceptional results for both scale-ups and large companies.


Our Technology Practice has 5 capabilities:

  • IT Architecture
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Software Engineering
  • Intelligent Process Automation
  • Quality Management


We are looking for Consultants with the following skill sets:

  • Technical experience and knowledge with Power Apps (Canvas Apps and Model driven Apps) ,Power Automate (Cloud Flows), Dataverse


And a demonstrated track record of:

  • Demonstrable experience in building enterprise Power Platform solutions through the software development lifecycle.
  • Experience in customising and configuring Dataverse
  • An understanding of data architecture principles, with proficiency in SQL Server and experience in integrating diverse data sources
  • Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices, tools, and cultures, including Azure DevOps, ALM Accelerator, Git, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong organisation skills and ability to prioritise, plan and multitask work assignments,
  • Experience of working in Agile project deliveries and delivering to tight timescales

Nice to have:

  • Relevant Certifications in Microsoft Power Platform and/or Azure cloud.
  • Experience with Co-Pilot Studio,Power Pages and Power BI
  • Experience with establishing and managing the Power Platform CoE.
  • Experience with C#, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, JavaScript, HTML and CSS


Responsibilities include:

  • You combine the role of IT consultant with that of application developer.
  • You will be working with a range of clients in different sectors; Retail, Infrastructure, Government, Industrial and Finance.
  • You use your technical expertise, platform knowledge and development experience in a multidisciplinary project or DevOps team to implement and manage high-quality IT solutions, such as mobile applications, business applications and workflow systems.
  • Coordinating with clients and end-users about product specifications, design and the end-product.
  • Testing of new functionalities, validating with end-users and implementing improvements.”


About you:

  • Integrity, respect, intellectually curious and an open mind
  • Reliable, proactive, result-oriented and focused
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Work comfortably, collaboratively and productively within a team and across multidisciplinary functions
  • Strong communication and client facing experience


We offer you:


The opportunity to work in a diverse and international environment with an informal culture, with a flat hierarchy, in which we cooperate across business areas and levels. We care about results, first and foremost. We care about people and how we can constantly challenge each other to become better. Your background is less important to us than your ability to create results, to create change. We prize excellence and ingenuity but know that both have to be grounded in reality. The reality of making our clients ready for the future.

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