Power Platform / D365 Technical Lead

As a Power Platform / D365 Technical Lead, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across project delivery, owning the day-to-day technical delivery of Microsoft business application solutions. You will lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure and maintainable solutions while remaining closely involved in technical delivery, development and problem-solving.

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who takes ownership of technical delivery, coordinates development activities, drives technical decisions and ensures work progresses effectively through to successful delivery. You will be responsible for identifying and resolving risks, blockers and dependencies, while providing clear technical direction and leadership to developers throughout the project lifecycle.

You will work closely with architects, product owners, delivery teams and stakeholders to translate business requirements and agreed designs into robust, supportable solutions. The role requires strong ownership, proactive leadership and a focus on delivering high-quality technical outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build and technical delivery of solutions across Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 (CE), including Power Pages, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable and supportable.
• Own day-to-day technical delivery across assigned workstreams, ensuring development activities remain aligned to project objectives, timelines and agreed solution designs.
• Own and coordinate development activities, providing clear technical direction, managing dependencies and driving work through to completion.
• Act as the primary technical lead for the development team, making implementation-level decisions, coordinating development effort and ensuring technical issues are addressed promptly.
• Proactively identify technical risks, issues, blockers and dependencies, taking ownership of mitigation and resolution before they impact delivery.
• Translate requirements and solution designs into actionable technical tasks, supporting the decomposition, estimation and sequencing of development work.
• Act as the first point of technical escalation for developers, troubleshooting complex issues and making implementation-level decisions within agreed architectural standards and guardrails.
• Own technical quality and engineering standards, including solution and code reviews, development patterns and security-by-design principles.
• Design and oversee integrations using APIs, connectors and Azure services.
• Lead the technical approach to ALM, CI/CD and deployments across environments, ensuring solutions and dependencies are controlled, secure and ready for release.
• Ensure appropriate authentication, authorisation, data access and platform security controls are applied across all solutions.
• Lead, coordinate and mentor developers, including across distributed teams, while promoting consistent engineering practices and delivery standards.
• Work effectively with architects, product owners, delivery teams, customers and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery outcomes.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 7+ years' experience delivering Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 solutions, including experience in a technical leadership role.
• Proven experience owning technical delivery for Microsoft Power Platform and/or Dynamics 365 projects, with accountability for technical execution, delivery quality and successful outcomes.
• Proven experience leading and coordinating developers, providing technical direction and driving development activities, dependencies and blockers through to resolution.
• Strong experience leading development teams and acting as the primary technical escalation point for developers.
• Demonstrated ability to work proactively and independently, identifying technical risks, dependencies and issues and taking ownership of their resolution.
• Strong hands-on experience across Power Platform and Dynamics 365, with significant Power Pages experience, together with Model-Driven Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and relevant Dynamics 365 CE modules.
• Deep hands-on experience with Power Pages, including security, authentication, authorisation and integration patterns.
• Strong development experience using C#/.NET and JavaScript, including Dynamics/Dataverse extensibility such as Plugins and Custom APIs.
• Strong integration experience using REST APIs, connectors and Azure integration services, including Azure Functions, Logic Apps and Service Bus.
• Strong experience with Power Platform security, ALM, CI/CD and solution deployment across environments.
• Strong experience implementing controlled deployment practices using Azure DevOps and Power Platform tooling, ensuring secure and repeatable releases.
• Experience conducting code reviews, establishing engineering standards and ensuring solution quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Relevant Microsoft Power Platform and/or Dynamics 365 certifications.
• Experience with Power Platform governance and enterprise environment strategy.
• Experience working within enterprise architecture or regulated environments.
• Experience with Copilot Studio and AI-enabled business solutions.
• Experience coaching, mentoring and developing Power Platform / Dynamics 365 developers.

What We're Looking For

We are seeking a hands-on Technical Lead who combines strong Power Platform and Dynamics 365 technical expertise with clear ownership of technical delivery. The successful candidate will be comfortable leading developers, making technical decisions, resolving complex issues and driving delivery outcomes while remaining actively involved in solution implementation. This role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys leading from the front and taking accountability for successful technical delivery rather than operating solely in an architectural or advisory capacity.

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme

• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance

• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme

• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies

• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat

• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & Star Awards.

• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter [email protected] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.

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