We believe that helping people unlock a better retirement starts with helping everyone in our organisation unlock their true potential, and thrive.
To do that, we’re mindful of staying true to the values that make us who we are, and proud of what we do.
Key Group is one of the most exciting, forward-thinking brands in financial services, focused on helping people unlock a better retirement since 1998. We are later life lending experts, with a market leading specialism in equity release. We offer later life lending advice and solutions to help homeowners across the UK unlock a better retirement by accessing some of the wealth tied up in their properties. Or as we like to say, retirement finances, unlocked. Our portfolio of brands comprises of Key (the Adviser) More2Life (the Lender) and Air (Adviser software service).
We are looking for a Senior Dynamics 365 CE Developer to join us as our Technology Lead for Microsoft Platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design, development, governance and support of business solutions. The role provides technical leadership across the Microsoft application estate, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned to business objectives.
Working closely with business stakeholders, Product Owner and Developers, the postholder will drive platform innovation, automation opportunities and best practice adoption while managing, mentoring and developing technical resources.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the technical lead and subject matter expert for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, leading the design, development and deployment of the estate.
- Advocate best practice for development standards, governance and security.
- Support business teams in identifying opportunities to improve processes through automation and digital transformation.
- Lead solution design reviews, code reviews and technical assurance activities.
- Ensure effective application lifecycle management (ALM) and DevOps practices.
- Develop and maintain integrations with internal and third-party applications.
- Mentor developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
- Translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
Experience & Skills:
- Significant hands-on experience delivering and supporting Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions.
- Experience developing Dynamics 365 customisations, plugins, workflows and integrations.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft platform security, governance and best practices.
- Experience with API integrations.
- Experience with DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
- Proven experience with complex technology solutions.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving skills.
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience with Power Automate Desktop
- Experience with Test Automation
- Experience with wider Azure technologies.
- Relevant Power Platform and D365 Qualifications
- Strong stakeholder management skills
Most of all we look for people who display and work around the core values of our business:
Ambitious – to break ground to help our customers enjoy a better retirement.
Supportive – relationships are key to everything we do.
Personal – going above and beyond to offer exceptional service.
Integrity – honest, true and transparent in all of our relationships.
Responsive – whatever the challenge we’ll deliver the right result.
Expert – experts in our field, our thirst for knowledge never stops.
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays. Rising to 28 days based on length of service
- Additional holiday purchase scheme
- 1 extra day to carry out charity work, and another day for your choice of wellbeing activity
- Pension: 5% Employee and 8% Employer
- AXA Exec (Self) or Simply health cashback plan
- Life Assurance x4 salary
Skills Required
- Significant experience delivering and supporting Dynamics 365 solutions.
- Hands-on expertise in Power Platform.
- Hands-on expertise in Power Automate Desktop (RPA).
- Hands-on expertise in Dataverse.
- Experience developing Dynamics 365 customisations, plugins, workflows and integrations.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft platform security, governance and best practices.
- Experience with API integrations, Azure services and DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
- Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering complex technology solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Power Platform Certifications.
- Dynamics 365 Certifications.
- Azure Certifications.
- Power Automate Desktop Certifications.
What We Do
Pioneers in the equity release market, Key Group is on a mission to be the UK’s leading retirement finance expert, focused on helping people finance a better retirement. Celebrating its 22nd anniversary in 2021, the Group has helped customers release more than £5 billion worth of equity from their properties. Evolving to meet the financial needs of the increasing over-50s market, brands within the Key Group umbrella two of the UK’s leading equity release advisers (Key and The Equity Release Experts), one of the largest equity release lenders (more2life), and leading later life service provider (Air Group). At the heart of Key Group is the commitment to grow the size of the equity release market, continue to help develop advice standards across the industry, support the growing number of equity release advisers active in the sector and innovate through the development of new retirement lending products. The Group is proud to be one of the largest private employers in Preston and currently employees over 100+ field-based advisers providing support to a fast growing client base across the UK. The Key Group brands have now gathered over 100 industry and consumer awards since launch. Follow us on LinkedIn to explore our latest career opportunities across our brands, as well as updates on our corporate activities. https://www.krgroup.co.uk/careers/
