About the job

Job summary

Do you want to work for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and care for the Defence Estate? DIO enables Defence to live, work, train and deploy, all with sustainability in mind. From net carbon zero accommodations to runways for the F35 fighter jets; our outputs are unique in the UK and across the globe!

Learn much more about DIO in our Candidate Information Guide attached. 

About DIO

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 Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.  This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.  Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements. 

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen within CIO's Software Development Team to support  the organisation's adoption and embedding of Office 365 applications allowing DIO to ensure information is accessible, shareable and easily exploitable. This will help to preserve our corporate memory, embed a culture of learning from experience and make more informed, data-based decisions. Within this role you will manage the team creating and developing business solutions using O365 applications (apps) within the Power Platform, such as Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI. This is a capability which is maturing quickly within CIO and provides the candidate the scope to develop their knowledge and understanding.

The post is within the Delivery and Operations function and will be responsible for the management of the Software Development team in the design and development of dashboards and applications using the Microsoft suite of apps (Power Apps, Power Automate)

• Primary responsibility will be to manage the development of low code Power App applications, with an understanding of PowerApps formulas and development methods
• Responsibility for creating business processes, workflows and custom connectors using Microsoft Flow/Power Automate
• Creating and managing database table, relationships and structures within the Microsoft Dataverse Environments
• Work within project team to assist in designing end-to-end solutions that improve collaboration, productivity, and knowledge sharing
• Identify areas and processes where Microsoft 365 can be better leveraged and facilitate process improvement
• Responsibility for working with stakeholders to define requirements and manage expectations
• Responsible for documenting data structures for ingestion into corporate Data Warehouse
• Managing team of Software Developers to ensure delivery of both new solutions and changes to existing
• Managing team to resolve user queries and bugs for existing solutions
• Assure technical specification documents in line with DIO standards and principles
• Quality assure solution designs ensuring Government Design Standards (GDS) standards are followed
• Work with team to suggest continuous improvements to DIO’s use of Microsoft platform

Person specification

Experience in creating user applications

Experience in managing software development teams / projects

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

Experience:

• CV - including Job History, Full Qualification Details and Previous Skills & Experience
• Personal Statement - in no more than 500 words, please outline your experience and suitability in Software Development

Technical Skills:

• Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework - Software Developer - Programming & Build - Practitioner

At interview you will be assessed against the above plus the following:

• Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework - Software Developer - Systems Design - Working
• Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework - Software Developer - Information Security - Practitioner

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.