Senior Microsoft Power Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) directorate has recently been established in UKEF, drawing together the expertise in digital currently within the organisation to provide representation of digital services, user centred design, analytics and technology at the highest levels. The areas with the directorate work closely with all areas of the business such as the Business Group, Operations and Strategy and Policy.

About the Role

UKEF is committed to be a more customer-centric organisation, making it easier for customers to deal with us, offering improved response times, quicker decision-making and improved case-processing. To enable this, UKEF is committed to using digital as a primary means for managing relationships with a wider range of stakeholders. Focusing on developing end-to-end services that meet user need and enable business outcomes, this is an exciting new role showing the growth and drive of UKEFs digital ambition.

This role requires you to develop and maintain SharePoint applications and solutions, integrate PowerApps with other Microsoft applications, design and develop custom workflows and forms, provide support to end-users and troubleshoot issues.

Job description

In this role, you will:

Design and Deliver Intelligent Solutions

Build scalable, secure applications using Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents) to automate workflows, enhance collaboration, and improve operational efficiency across departments.

Copilot Studio & Agent Development

Develop and deploy custom Copilot agents using Copilot Studio, integrating them with internal systems (e.g. SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Azure services) to provide conversational interfaces that support case management, data entry, and stakeholder engagement. Champion the use of generative AI to reduce manual effort and improve user experience.

SharePoint Online Administration

Configure and manage SharePoint Online environments, including site collections, permissions, integrations, and compliance policies. Ensure performance, availability, and data protection in line with UKEF’s governance standards.

Custom Development & Integration

Develop solutions using Power Platform, and modern web technologies such as SPFx. Integrate with Microsoft 365 and external APIs to support business processes and automate tasks.

Data Source Management

Maintain and optimise data sources used in Power Platform solutions, ensuring integrity, security, and alignment with enterprise data governance strategies.

AI-Driven Workflows

Leverage AI Builder and Copilot capabilities to create intelligent workflows that adapt to user behaviour and business context, enhancing decision-making and reducing operational overhead.

Mentorship & Best Practices

Lead in establishing a Centre of Excellence. Promote best practices, reusable components, and knowledge sharing across Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and SharePoint.

Cross-Government Collaboration

Represent UKEF in cross-government forums (e.g. Low Code Community, Innovation Days), sharing insights on secure automation, Copilot adoption, and platform engineering.

Automated Development & Deployment

Drive adoption of CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform and SharePoint solutions. Collaborate with Cloud and QA Automation teams to ensure robust testing, version control, and secure deployments.

Technology Landscape Awareness

Stay current with Microsoft’s evolving ecosystem, including Copilot extensibility, and AI capabilities. Evaluate emerging tools and approaches to continuously improve engineering practices.

This role is aligned with the Development operations (DevOps) engineer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.

Person specification

UK Export Finance is looking for motivated individuals with a desire to learn about the business. Successful candidates will be provided not only with functional training to enable them to do well in their role, but also with personal development to help them to achieve their career ambitions. Please note that the person specification below outlines at which stage(s) you will be assessed on how you meet the criteria for the role(s) including:-

A = assessed at application stage I = assessed at interview stage

T = assessed by test stage = assessed at presentation stage

Essential

Qualifications

• Graduate level education or relevant professional experience (A)
• Evidence of continuing professional development (A)

Knowledge

• Hands-on experience with the following technologies: (A, I)
  • Microsoft Power Apps – canvas and model-driven apps
  • Microsoft Power Automate – cloud flows and desktop flows
  • Microsoft Copilot Studio – agent development and integration with internal systems
  • Power Platform integration with SQL and Microsoft Dataverse
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 – CRM and ERP modules

• Demonstrated expertise in Microsoft Power Platform administration, including:
  • Managing environment roles and permissions
  • Configuring security groups
  • Enforcing governance policies across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse (A, I)
• Microsoft Office suite. (A)
• Source control tools and practices – e.g. Git, Azure DevOps, branching strategies. (A)

Skills/Ability

• Availability and capacity management:
  • You can identify capacity issues, and stipulate and instigate the required changes.
  • You can manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and key performance indicators (KPIs)

(Skill level: working) (A, I)

• Development process optimisation:
  • You can work under guidance to identify process optimisation opportunities
  • You can contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions

(Skill level: working) (A, I)

• Information security:
  • You can understand information security.
  • You can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered with mitigation of security threats as a core feature.

(Skill level: practitioner) (A, I)

• Modern development standards:
  • You can demonstrate a strong understanding of the most appropriate modern standards and practices, and how they are applied.
  • You can apply modern development standards and support others in applying them

(Skill level: practitioner) (A, I)

• Prototyping:
  • You can approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others.
  • You can establish design patterns and iterate them.
  • You can use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.

(Skill level: practitioner) (A, I)

• Service support:
  • You can help fix service faults following agreed procedures
  • You can carry out maintenance tasks on service support infrastructure
  • You can identify, locate and fix service faults

(Skill level: practitioner) (A, I)

• Systems design:
  • You can translate logical designs into physical designs.
  • You can produce detailed designs.
  • You can effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
  • You can work with well-understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.
  • You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity
  • You can select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively
  • You can review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology

(Skill level: practitioner) (A, I)

• User focus:
  • You can collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally
  • You can explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user
  • You can champion user research to focus on all users
  • You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so
  • You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use

(Skill level: practitioner) (A, I)

Experience

• Experience across the following disciplines (A, I):
  • Developing canvas and model-driven Power Apps, Power Pages, and Power Automate workflows to support business processes and automation.
  • Creating Copilot agents and agent flows using Copilot Studio, integrating with internal systems to deliver conversational experiences and task automation.
  • Administering the Power Platform Admin Centre, including managing environments, configuring security groups, and enforcing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and governance policies across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse.
  • Implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Power Platform solutions using Azure DevOps, including source control, solution packaging, and automated deployment pipelines.
  • Designing, developing, and maintaining SharePoint Online applications and solutions, including site architecture, permissions, and integrations.

Qualifications

oGraduate level education or relevant professional experience (A)
oEvidence of continuing professional development (A)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Question
• Question
• Question
• Presentation

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• Question
• Question

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,475, UK Export Finance contributes £16,360 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

We are assessing candidates using Success Profiles (see Appendix 1) and across the whole process we will assess your Experience, Technical and Behavioursas highlighted below.

The application must be completed by 23.55 on the day of the closing date for it to be accepted.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Please ensure that you read through the Candidate Information Pack attached to this advert, before applying.

All applications will be sifted against our essential criteria outlined in the personal specification.

• Qualification:
  • Graduate level education or relevant professional experience (A)
  • Evidence of continuing professional development (A)
• Statement of suitability - you should fully articulate in 750 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack.
• Two technical questions below, 250 word statements for each

This role is aligned with the Development operations (DevOps) engineer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

1. Experience - Application and Statement of Suitability
2. Two technical questions below, 250 words each

In the event of a high volume of applications, an initial sift will be carried out on the two technical questions below:

1. Please describe a specific project where you developed either a canvas app or a model-driven app using Microsoft Power Apps. In your answer, outline:
   • The business problem you were solving
   • How you ensured the solution was user-centred, including how you gathered and incorporated user feedback into the design
   • Key features and integrations you implemented (e.g., with Dataverse, SharePoint, or other APIs or Microsoft 365 services)
   • How you ensured the solution was maintainable and could be easily updated or extended in the future
   • How you managed deployments and application lifecycle management (ALM), including any use of Azure DevOps, pipelines, or automated deployment processes
   • Any challenges you faced and how you addressed them
   • The impact your solution had on users or business processes
2. Based on your experience, explain how you have managed Power Platform environments to ensure security, compliance, and best practice adoption. In your answer, please cover:
   • How you have configured environment roles and security groups
   • Steps you have taken to enforce Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and other governance policies
   • Any experience you have with the Power Platform Admin Centre for managing environments, monitoring usage, or supporting application lifecycle management
   • Your involvement in establishing or contributing to a Power Platform Centre of Excellence (CoE), including promoting best practices, mentoring others, or driving platform adoption across teams

If you are successful following the initial sift, you will be invited to a panel interview; this will include the following assessment:

• Behaviours/Experience - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all one behaviours
  • Managing a Quality Service
• Technical - Presentation, on a topic agreed by UKEF and provided to the relevant candidates in advance, assessing your technical capability in relation to the requirements of the role.
• Technical Questions - you will be assessed across your technical expertise and acumen, related to Power Platform solution architecture, Copilot agent development, data modelling with Dataverse and SQL, SharePoint and, application lifecycle management using Azure DevOps, and secure design patterns.

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : UKEF Recruitment
• Email : Recruitment2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitment2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk

Further information

Should you have a complaint or wish to raise any concerns regarding the recruitment process, please e-mail your complaint to the Head of Pay and Resourcing (UKEF) at Recruitment2@ukexportfinance.gov.uk and include “Complaint” in the subject heading. Should you remain dissatisfied following UKEF’s investigation then you can refer your complaint to the Commission - http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint.