Dynamics 365 CE Senior developer & Tech Lead

SUMMARY:
Our Client in the insurance industry is looking for a Senior Dynamics CE Developer & Tech lead to join their team.

POSITION INFO:
Dynamics 365 CE Senior Developer / Tech Lead – 100% Hybrid
Join a financial services giant and play a pivotal role in executing its exciting digital transformation strategy. Put your strong integration skills to the test by connecting stakeholders and clients in the B2B and B2C ecosystems. Work alongside a strong product owner and solutions architect team in designing and implementing solutions that are poised to move the needle in the business. Gain exposure to the full lifecycle, from concept to code to keeping key operational systems humming. As a community of practice leader, nurture and grow a Microsoft Dynamics 365 developer community aligned with the growing strategic importance of the platform. Responsibilities and work outputs
As a senior Dynamics 365 developer:
- Deliver quality, effective software, in line with the agreed development process and business needs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct analysis and prioritise requests.
- Conduct research and evaluate potential technical solutions to identified business problems.
- Partner with the Product Owner, Business and/or System Analysts and Solutions Architects to translate business requirements into workable solutions and document solutions into technical specifications.
- Design and code new software functionality using code that is readable, maintainable and re-usable.
- Conduct unit testing of own code, and system integration testing of each solution and resolve all issues/queries timeously.
- Collaborate with the testing team to co-create test cases to ensure that features within each application are working as expected.
- Contribute to user acceptance testing (UAT) and training material to ensure that functionality is working correctly.
- Deliver coding into the applicable production environment once testing has been completed.
- Provide stakeholders with regular feedback on the technical design and timelines for solution ensuring that business needs are met.
- Maintain existing programmes according to change requests approved by business as and when needed.
- Diagnose root causes of system issues through problem-solving and recommend potential solutions.
- Monitor performance of solutions and make recommendations to improve the performance and functionality of the solution.
- Log issues found in existing systems as internal change controls and ensure successful resolution of issues.
- Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers and team members.
- Continuously develop own expertise in terms of industry and subject matter development and application thereof in an area of specialisation.
- Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and involvement of peers.
As a community of practice leader:
- Assist the development team members to master their skills and grow their careers.
- Hold regular performance excellence dialogues with team members regarding their impact on team goals and rate their individual contributions. - Drive employee wellness and retention by participating in capacity planning and pro-actively flagging burn-out concerns.
- Collaborate with the product owner to ensure continuous improvement across the Software Development Lifecycle. - Continuously improve effort estimations based on technical designs to enable better prioritisation and capacity planning.
- Put processes in place to ensure proper technical design and documentation with projects and team goals, as well as adherence to design specifications by all developers.
- Develop standards and frameworks to ensure code that is of good quality, easy to maintain and easy to hand over. - Perform quality assurance checks / code reviews. - Ensure that proper developer testing is performed.
- Ensure adherence to deployment protocols. - Participate and align with release management processes.
- Ensure proper monitoring and alerting is in place. - Ensure compliance to audit requirements. - Ensure adherence to security and access control requirements. - Ensure the availability and performance of services that the rest of the business relies upon, within agreed upon service levels and aligned to integration frameworks and protocols.
- Take ownership of the data generated by the platform and ensure the delivery of curated data sets to enable reporting and analytics.
- Contribute towards creating a culture that supports the values of the organisation through effective leadership.
- Ensure that the value of operational excellence is sustainably upheld in the team.
- Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers and stakeholders.
- Take ownership for driving own career development.
- Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
- Manage financial and other company resources under your control with due respect.
- Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.
Knowledge & skills - Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement - Azure DevOps CI & CD - Power Platform PCF Controls - Dynamics 365 Plugin development - Dynamics 365 Portal development - .Net - C# - Javascript - Web services - Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - Knowledge of software testing - Knowledge of writing test cases
Experience & qualifications - 7 year + relevant IT experience - 5 year + Microsoft CRM development experience (essential)
- Relevant qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology or related area (desirable)
- Experience in a team lead/mentoring role (desirable)
Competencies - Attention to detail - Communication skills - Interpersonal skills - Problem-solving skills - Planning and organising skills - Analytical skills - Team player

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