Microsoft Power Platforms Developer

Location - London or Winchester office with hybrid working in line with departmental requirements.

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. We use powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future.

What's the role?

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and innovative Power Platform Developer. You'll be comfortable with working with colleagues from all areas of the business to help design, build and maintain business applications, workflows and automation solutions using Microsoft Power Platform. Ideally you will have demonstrable experience across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Dataverse, with a focus on delivering scalable, user-friendly solutions that improve business efficiency and support digital transformation.

What will you be doing?

Your key responsibilities will include the following.

• Develop, support, and continuously improve custom business applications using Power Apps
• Build and optimise workflows and process automations with Power Automate
• Create interactive dashboards and data visualisations in Power BI to enable data-driven decision making
• Integrate Power Solutions into a range of solutions used across the business and within third parties. This will include web pages and be able to interact with API’s
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and senior management to gather requirements, translate them into technical designs and deliver solutions that meet business needs
• Ensure solutions are secure, compliant and aligned with best practice in governance and lifecycle management
• Ensure solutions are designed with ‘running’ and support in mind, including elements such as error control and logging
• Provide documentation, training and support to end users and technical teams
• Keep up to date with the latest Power Platform capabilities
• Be able to present and demonstrate new solutions to audiences of varying technical abilities
• To act as a mentor and subject matter expert for colleagues across the business who are involved in creating their own developments.
• Where required, be able to coordinate with third party vendors to collaborate on new ideas
• Be able to investigate and troubleshoot issues that arise with flows (with or without background knowledge of how its designed)
• Deal and resolve tickets that come from flows that have errored

What skills, qualities and experience will you need to have?

The following are essential.

• Demonstrable experience developing with Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse)
• Excellent understanding of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and integration points
• Experience of building responsive, user-friendly applications
• Ability to analyse business processes and deliver effective digital solutions
• Familiarity with Azure services (Logic Apps, Functions, Service Bus)
• Knowledge of, and experience using, third party API’s to interact with flows and internal solutions
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical and communication skills
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously, while balancing business priorities and quality
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically, both in writing and orally
• Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and a pragmatic approach
• Proactive and self-motivated, with a passion for technology and innovation
• Excellent collaboration skills, able to work with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced evolving environment

The following are highly desirable.

• Experience with Power Virtual Agents / Copilot Studio
• Experience of security, compliance and governance in Power Platform
• PowerShell scripting experience for automation, administration and DevOps tasks
• Microsoft certifications (e.g. PL-100, PL-200, PL-400)

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance
• Income protection
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy &sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.