Business Application Developer

🕑 Full-time, Permanent

🏠 Home-based with occasional visits to Make UK offices

(London, Birmingham & Leamington Spa)

Competitive salary and Excellent benefits, including up to one day’s paid leave each year to undertake volunteering opportunities

**The Manufacturers’ Organisation Make UK**

Make UK is the UK’s leading membership organisation for all things manufacturing and engineering. They champion and celebrate British Manufacturing, bringing people together to build upon the evolution of a growing industry, providing a large range of support services to its members and representing the interests of UK manufacturing with government, helping to shape policy and create the conditions businesses need to succeed.

Role Profile

Make UK are seeking a Microsoft Business Applications Developer to design, develop, integrate and support business applications, with a primary focus on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Power BI.

The role will work to translate business requirements into secure, maintainable and user-focused solutions, while improving automation, data quality and interoperability between line-of-business systems.

Working closely with business stakeholders, IT colleagues and third-party suppliers, the postholder will own the technical delivery of enhancements and interfaces throughout the application lifecycle, from discovery and solution design through development, testing, deployment, documentation and operational support.

The Role

Power Platform Development

• Develop and optimise Power Apps and Power Automate solutions.
• Use Dataverse and connectors in line with security and governance standards.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve inefficient processes.

Power BI & Reporting

• Develop and maintain Power BI reports, dashboards and data models.
• Connect Power BI to Dynamics 365, Dataverse, SQL Server and other data sources.
• Use Power Query and DAX to deliver accurate, high-performing reporting solutions.
• Manage Power BI security, governance, deployment and platform performance.
• Troubleshoot reporting, data quality, refresh and access issues.

Systems Integration

• Develop and support integrations between Dynamics 365, ShareDo, SunSystems and other business applications.
• Work with APIs, web services, data files and integration services.
• Implement appropriate validation, monitoring, logging and error handling.
• Diagnose and resolve integration issues with internal teams and suppliers.

Requirements & Solution Design

• Work with stakeholders to understand business requirements and processes.
• Translate requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Recommend appropriate platform capabilities and challenge requirements where necessary.
• Ensure solutions align with Make UK technology standards.

Development & Change Management

• Manage development through test and production environments.
• Apply appropriate source control, release management and application lifecycle practices.
• Support testing, UAT, deployment and post-release validation.
• Ensure changes follow agreed governance and change control processes.

Data, Security & Governance

• Apply secure-by-design, data protection and least-privilege principles.
• Support data migration, cleansing, transformation and reconciliation.
• Maintain Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Power BI governance and technical standards.
• Consider licensing, capacity, connectors and platform governance when designing solutions.

Support & Continuous Improvement

• Provide technical support for business applications, Power BI, automations and integrations.
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement permanent solutions.
• Monitor solution performance, reliability and supportability.
• Manage technical debt, defects and continuous improvement opportunities.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Maintain technical specifications, system diagrams, interface documentation and support procedures.
• Produce release notes and user or administrator guidance.
• Share knowledge with colleagues and suppliers to support effective knowledge transfer.

Project & Stakeholder Management

• Support and deliver smaller business-driven IT projects to agreed scope, timescales and budget.
• Manage competing project and operational priorities.
• Build effective relationships with business users, application owner…