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Salary: £42,000 - 82,000 per year
Requirements: Substantial hands-on experience designing, building and releasing production solutions with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and Copilot Studio.Experience leading development of AI agents or agentic workflows that use knowledge, tools and actions to complete meaningful tasks safely.Experience integrating or developing MCP servers and tools, or equivalent tool-based agent integration patterns, including troubleshooting identity, permissions and data flow.Strong API and integration skills, including REST/JSON, custom connectors, OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID and secure secrets management.Pro-code engineering capability in one or more languages such as TypeScript/JavaScript, C# or Python, with experience extending low-code services appropriately.Strong software engineering practice, including testing, version control, code review, documentation, CI/CD, observability and supporting live services.Ability to lead technical decisions for medium-to-high complexity work, communicate trade-offs and escalate architecture or security risks appropriately.Practical understanding of security, data protection, accessibility and responsible AI controls for enterprise applications and agents.Desirable: Experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Application Insights, Azure AI services or comparable cloud components.Desirable: Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, enterprise search and evaluation of grounded responses.Desirable: Experience with agent observability, tracing, prompt and version management, red teaming or automated quality and safety testing.Desirable: Experience integrating Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Power BI, Fabric or other Microsoft enterprise services.Desirable: Experience defining Power Platform environment, solution, data-loss-prevention and application lifecycle management patterns.Desirable: Relevant Microsoft certifications, or experience delivering technology in government, justice, regulated or security-conscious environments.This role requires you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of onboarding, candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard. If you are unable to meet this and associated criteria, employment may be delayed or rejected; details will be discussed at interview. Responsibilities: Lead the design, build, test, deployment and support of solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Copilot Studio and appropriate pro-code extensions.Engineer AI agents and agentic workflows using trusted knowledge, tools, actions, approvals, human hand-offs, evaluation and safe failure paths.Design and implement integrations with approved MCP servers and lead development of MCP tools or services using secure, reusable patterns.Integrate Power Platform and AI solutions with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, Azure services and enterprise systems using connectors, APIs and event-based patterns.Apply grounding, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool calling and model-selection patterns with appropriate evaluation and operational controls.Create custom connectors, plug-ins and Azure-hosted components where low-code capability is insufficient, choosing technologies based on need, risk and supportability.Set and apply engineering standards for source control, solution packaging, environment strategy, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and release management.Lead technical investigation of complex live-service faults and improve resilience, performance, accessibility, security and observability.Review designs and code, mentor developers and contribute reusable components, patterns and learning to the wider engineering community.Work with users, product teams, engineers, architects, security and operational colleagues to turn complex needs into reliable services.Take technical ownership of significant components and end-to-end solutions, guide decisions across low-code, pro-code, integration and AI patterns, and support live services. Technologies: AIAI AgentsAPIAzureC#CI/CDCloudCopilotFabricFlowSupportJSONJavaScriptMCPMicrosoft 365Microsoft Power PlatformOAuthPower BIPythonRESTSecuritySharePointTypeScriptOffice 365 More:
This senior Microsoft Power Platform and AI Developer role is mainly remote, with flexibility required to travel to client sites and our offices in London, Sheffield and Bristol. We offer autonomy to develop your skills, impactful project work, supportive and collaborative colleagues, and strong leadership. Benefits include LinkedIn Learning, management development and training, a confidential 24/7 employee assistance programme, social events and charitable activities, 25 days of annual leave, a pension salary exchange scheme with 4% employer and 5% employee contributions, life assurance at four times base salary, and non-contributory private medical and worldwide travel insurance for employees, spouses and dependants.
last updated 40 week of 2026