The posting
Senior Power Platform Developer
Where the job is based: Stellenbosch, South Africa
This role demands flexibility to work during UK hours and requires 2 days a week working from the Stellenbosch office.
Who we are:
Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv Digital, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients driving extreme value!
With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.
People come first always we are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Dive into an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.
The candidate will demonstrate deep functional and technical expertise in Microsoft Power Platform and related technologies:
Required Skills:
- Expertise in developing Canvas Apps with strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, performance optimisation and user experience design within Power Apps.
- Experience building modern Power Apps experiences using canvas apps, model-driven apps, custom pages and reusable components.
- Familiarity with PCFs is desirable
- Knowledge of Power Automate
- Strong Dataverse experience, including table design, relationships, security roles, business units, teams, ownership models, auditing, calculated/rollup columns, choices, views, forms, business rules and solution-aware configuration. (a must!)
- Experience in scaling Power Automation solutions for enterprise-level needs
- Confident working with Dataverse SDK, Web API, FetchXML, OData, QueryExpression and service protection limits.
- Experience in building offline apps is a big plus!
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to understand and playback requirements and convey solution design concepts to customers and peers.
- A strong desire to help customers realise the benefit of their investment and understand the art of the possible.
- Experience building secure Power Pages solutions, including site configuration, Liquid templates, web roles, table permissions, authentication providers, Dataverse integration, forms, lists and ALM.
- Be an awesome team player as the conduit between the customer, business analysts, solution architects, developers and quality assurance.
- Microsoft certifications, e.g. multiple MCPs or an MCSE
Responsibilities:
You’ll probably need to demonstrate at least some experience with;
- Understanding the Out of the Box capabilities (and limitations) provided by Dynamics 365CE and the Power Platform, from form design to solution management to connectors to integrations.
- Demonstrate Out of the Box functionality to business and technical stakeholders illustrating how the product supports core business processes
- Requirements gathering, writing and evolution through business process identification, analysis and re-engineering
- Learn and become an expert in the in the Kerv Digital accelerators to solve common business scenarios faster. Become a design influencer into the future roadmap of the accelerators
- Crafting user stories, features and epics to be used across the presales, design, development and delivery lifecycles.
- Building Proof of Concepts to demonstrate and articulate solution designs.
- Implementing business and technical environment change safely and effectively, with the support of the Solution Architects and the Project Office
- Pre-sales engagement including technology evangelism, demonstration, adoption and other early opportunity activities such as bid-response writing
- Creating clear and effective documentation across multiple channels
- Using a proactive approach to ensure timescales are met, balancing a hands-on approach vs delegating to developers or other team members.
- Training end users and admins in the use of Dynamics 365 CE and the Power Platform
- Environment setup, configuration and Application Lifecycle Management
- Supporting, leading and coaching more junior project team members fostering a culture of wellbeing, inclusion and ensuring balanced workload levels
- Prioritise and assign tasks and make best use of available resource and skill levels in the team contributing to the project success
- Build relationships with other stakeholders in other disciplines across the project including within the client team and contribute to the successful management of dependencies between disciplines
- Other tasks as reasonably requested
Desirable Skills:
Candidates are expected to have some of the following skills;
- Lead by example through sharing from previous experiences and providing implementation plans that mitigate risks to deliver a positive outcome
- Remain calm and professional in fast paced environments and feel comfortable calling out concerns and seeking advice when needed
- Embrace personal growth to yourself and others through learning, achievement and satisfaction
- Be approachable to provide help, guidance and actively support junior colleagues helping them to uphold standards, manage their workload, ensure quality and cope with challenging situations
- Experience developing Dataverse plug-ins, custom workflow activities and Custom APIs using C#, including synchronous and asynchronous pipeline behaviour, transaction handling, impersonation, tracing, exception handling and performance considerations.
- Experience building, debugging and deploying Power Apps Component Framework controls using TypeScript, React and modern front-end engineering practices, including accessibility, responsive design, performance optimisation and solution packaging.
- Understanding of responsible AI, prompt design, agent governance, security boundaries, data access and operational monitoring for AI-enabled Power Platform solutions.
- Experience designing and building Copilot Studio agents, including topics, actions, knowledge sources, generative answers, authentication, hand-off patterns, Power Automate integration and Dataverse-backed processes.
- Embrace a culture of knowledge sharing so that we grow
We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like;
- Excellent English speaking and written communication
- Ability to identify and pick up new technologies
- Ability to work effectively with remote teams in different time zones
- ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales
What we can do for you:
We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employee’s:
Real Flexibility
Awesome Environment – all of our employee’s will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on – and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth.
Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build ground breaking technology - we build future.
Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews
Kerv values…
- Think Customer First
- Team is everything
- Spread good vibes
- Build future
- Do the right thing
At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
You will live the Kerv values…
- Think Customer First
- Team is everything
- Spread good vibes
- Build future
- Do the right thing
At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.
