Junior Microsoft Power Platform & Fabric Developer - 18 Month FTC

Salary: £35,000-£40,000 P.A DOE

Hours: 37.5 per week - 18 Month FTC

Reports to: Business Systems Manager & Data Engineer

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.

Extra Information: Open to conversation on hybrid, flexible and compressed working arrangements.

About the role:

As a key member of the SCRUM team delivering the Eric Bana programme—our new enterprise Microsoft technology platform—you will take ownership of defined development work across Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Power Platform, Power Pages, Power Apps, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI.

This role offers the opportunity to work on strategic, business‑critical components of our digital transformation. You will be responsible for developing production‑ready features, supporting complex integrations, and contributing to our engineering standards, data modelling approach, and platform governance.

This position is ideal for an ambitious early‑career developer seeking accelerated growth in a modern, enterprise‑grade Microsoft ecosystem

What you will be doing:

Key Responsibilities

1. Platform Development & Technical Ownership

• Act as the primary developer for assigned CRM, Power Platform, or Fabric backlog items, delivering production‑ready components.
• Own and enhance specified Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM modules (entities, forms, business rules, plug‑ins where appropriate).
• Build and maintain robust Power Apps (Canvas and Model‑Driven) with a focus on performance, maintainability, and secure design.
• Develop and support Power Pages including authentication, reusable components, and custom JavaScript where required.
• Create reusable components, connectors, templates, and accelerators to support platform‑wide standardisation.

2. Integration & Advanced Technical Work

• Support integration work across Dataverse, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, REST APIs, and third‑party systems.
• Contribute to solution architecture discussions, including data flows, plug‑in behaviour, and API usage.
• Apply advanced Power Fx, JavaScript, C#, or KQL where required to meet functional and non‑functional requirements.

3. Data Engineering, Fabric & Reporting

• Lead assigned data engineering tasks within Microsoft Fabric, including Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows, Lakehouse modelling, and semantic model development.
• Build enterprise‑grade Power BI models and datasets that follow best practices in performance, governance, and data quality.
• Perform structured data validation, optimisation, and monitoring across Fabric and CRM data sources.

4. Engineering, Quality & CI/CD

• Contribute to and help maintain ALM processes, solution layering, environment strategy, and deployment pipelines.
• Support CI/CD pipelines for Power Platform and Fabric using Azure DevOps and Git branching strategies.
• Conduct unit tests, quality checks, peer reviews, and regression testing to ensure deliverables meet engineering standards.
• Own documentation quality for assigned features, including technical designs, guidance, and release notes.

5. SCRUM Delivery & Cross‑Team Engagement

• Actively participate in SCRUM ceremonies (stand‑ups, sprint planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives).
• Support requirements gathering workshops with business stakeholders, acting as a technical liaison.
• Collaborate with senior developers, architects, and external partners (ANS) to shape best‑practice approaches across the platform.
• Contribute to governance, security, and data quality frameworks as part of the wider programme.

6. Knowledge Sharing & Capability Building

• Produce knowledge articles, internal demos, and training materials to support the wider organisation.
• Assist with onboarding and mentoring of future junior developers or apprentices.
• Act as a Power Platform and Fabric champion, helping colleagues adopt best‑practice development techniques.

Your experience:

Essential

• Demonstrable experience delivering production‑ready Power Apps or Power Automate flows.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM configuration or development.
• Strong understanding of Dataverse, relational data modelling, and data transformation concepts.
• Ability to write intermediate‑level expressions or code using Power Fx, C#, JavaScript, SQL, or KQL.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Data Factory, or Dataflows) with hands‑on delivery experience.
• Experience working with Git, Azure DevOps, or similar DevOps tooling.
• Foundational understanding of ALM, solution layering, and working across multiple environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary SCRUM team and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Desirable

• Experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, or API Management.
• Knowledge of solution architecture patterns and integration best practices.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks for Power Platform or data pipelines.
• Prior involvement in platform governance, security, or data quality initiatives.
• Exposure to enterprise‑grade CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits:
Who are we?

We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose.

We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Why choose us?

We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you’ve ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries.

We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving.

We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff.

We are proud to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader, have attained Platinum Level Award for Investors in People and are members of the Business Disability Forum.

A career with Motability Foundation can offer you so much more than earning potential, we pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits. Some of these include:

• 26 days annual leave, plus the option to buy/ sell up to five days.
• One wellbeing day for extra flexibility.
• Pension scheme - Up to 20%, including a 10% non-contributory contribution and matched contributions up to 5%.
• Life Assurance of four times your salary.
• Private healthcare through BUPA for you and your family, along with a Medicash Health Plan.
• Employee assistance programme: GP appointments, eye tests, flu vaccinations, sick pay and free gym and yoga sessions.
• Enhanced Parental Leave, including Adoption Pay.
• Free parking, EV charge points and a minibus service to/from the town centre and train station.
• Fresh fruit, breakfast snacks, and a Dress for Your Day dress code.
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, and we aim to be an employer of choice for candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing and when working with us, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

To help us create an inclusive workplace we are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances, we may need to limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates.