Senior Developer - Microsoft Platform - #2085905

Senior Developer - Microsoft Platform

Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata

Location: Manchester

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing date: 25/06/2026

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance and advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care.

We have modern offices in Manchester city centre and Stratford, London.  Please take into consideration that you may be required to commute to one of our offices for business purposes if necessary.

Job overview

Do you want to do meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to society? Our main purpose here at The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision-making.  As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this goal by empowering our workforce to do great things! 

 Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. Please refer to the DirectGov website for more information on eligibility.

We reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications, so please don’t delay your submission. As part of our commitment to colleagues at risk of redundancy, all redeployment applications are reviewed before external ones.

Main duties of the job

This Senior Developer role will build and support Microsoft 365 and Power Platform solutions that enable NICE employees to operate effectively and efficiently

What you do & bring to the role:

• Work within agile disciplinary teams to design, build and maintain solutions in Microsoft 365, the Power Platform and CoPilot Studio


• Proactively identifying new functionality on the Microsoft roadmap that will enhance end user productivity and efficiency


• Work with users and business stakeholders to demonstrate and prototype the technical art of the possible


• Be proactive about helping business stakeholders consider the non functional needs and constraints as well as the functional when designing solutions


• Actively participate in developing and managing agile backlogs of work


• Support live services through monitoring, incident resolution, performance optimisation and continual improvement, including rota’d 3rd line support


• Share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and support the development of Microsoft platform capability within the team.

Person specification

Essential:

• Specialist knowledge and expertise acquired through degree level or equivalent qualification/experience. Additionally holds specialist knowledge across several relevant areas of expertise, acquired through relevant practical experience and training/development. Eg: M365 Administrator Expert Power Platform Functional consultant or developer associate Certification in SharePoint and Teams Administration

Desirable

• Certification in Purview configuration (eg sensitive data, records management) or Copilot Studio development/admin

Working for our organisation

The Engineering team at NICE designs, builds, and runs the digital services that underpin nationally relied upon health and care guidance used by millions of people. The team creates secure, reliable software that supports both internal guidance production and public-facing services such as the NICE website, BNF, and Clinical Knowledge Summaries.

Engineers work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, applying DevOps and secure by design principles to continuously improve live services and deliver meaningful digital outcomes.

We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.

We are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make. NICE offer:

• Generous NHS Pension – Secure your future with one of the most rewarding pension schemes in the UK


• Flexible working – Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with options like remote working, compressed hours and flexible start/finish times


• Exclusive discounts – Save on shopping, dining and more with a Blue Light Card


• Time to recharge – Start with 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays


• Inclusive staff networks – Join supportive communities like Women in NICE, Race Equality Network, Disability Advocacy and NICE and Proud – we celebrate diversity


• Tailored development – Grow your career with personalised learning and development opportunities

If you feel this is the type of environment you will enjoy working in, apply today!

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.