Specialist – Solutions Delivery – The VHQ

Salary: Competitive
Hours: Full Time
Location: Hybrid remote working with 3 days per week in our VHQ (Crawley, West Sussex)
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 12 April 2023

Many of our people at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, including part-time or different core hours. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore what's possible for the role.

At Virgin Atlantic, our purpose is to ensure everyone can take on the world. Our vision is to be the most loved travel company. To achieve both, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to reimagine the world and create thoughtful experiences that feel brilliantly different at every opportunity.

Our people are game changers who see the world differently. Acting as a loud and proud voice for positive change for our people, places, and the planet, they’re not afraid to roll up their sleeves to take on the big things while never forgetting the importance of the small details. So, if you’re ready to take your career to new heights, read on.

In this role you’ll use an agile approach to design, develop and release applications and prototypes to deliver specific business outcomes, working on objectives on the Business Enablement backlog.

Some of your key responsibilities as our Solutions Delivery Specialist will be:

• Promotion and daily management of the Power Platform (focusing on Power Apps and Power Automate), governing and implementing strategies to nurture citizen developers across the organisation
• Ensure apps and flows follow DevOps CICD processes and development standard methodologies (logging and error handling patterns), working with the manager to form coding standards.
• Run hackathon sessions and record new training material
• In partnership with the BE Manager, implement upskilling strategies for makers.
• Keep up to date with Azure and Power Platform / Office 365, and MS Technologies by means of research, training courses, conferences, webinars and visits to other businesses.
• Deliver solutions and support the business and projects to deliver solutions using our abilities around the Power Platform, Dynamics and o365 platform
  Work alongside support partners when developing solutions, sharing any code repositories

Are you passionate about Power Platform apps? Do you love working with a variety of people?

You might come from a Power Platform Developer, Power Platform Specialist or Microsoft Developer role.
In addition to the above, we’d love for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:

• Effective system development, testing and support skills
• Strong people and communication skills
• Plus a strong blend of technical skills, including:
• Power Platform – development using Power App and Power Automate
• Azure Cloud and SharePoint Online experience
• REST APIs – reading/writing data
• User Interface Design
• Non-essential but beneficial skills are C#, .Net, Power BI, SQL for Microsoft and Oracle databases
• Working experience of Azure DevOps end to end (epics through to deployment pipelines)

If this sounds like you, and you would like to unlock your potential with us, we would love to hear from you!

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.