The Role
JOB DESCRIPTION
The IT division delivers the Technology and Services that enable the Canopius Group to achieve its strategic and business goals.
The Technology team is on a journey to provide a flexible and iterative software delivery function to all areas of the business – allowing us to respond quickly and innovatively to internal user requirements and therefore provide external market advantage.
As a Senior Developer, you will lead collaboration with business units to understand their challenges and provide technical leadership across delivery teams to design and build scalable solutions.
In addition to hands-on development, you will own platform architecture, governance, environment strategy, and ALM processes, ensuring solutions are delivered in a controlled, secure, and sustainable way across all environments.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include:
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Power Platform solutions.
- Define and own solution architecture patterns and integration strategies.
- Provide governance and technical oversight across all platform implementations.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical challenges.
Core Development Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimise enterprise-scale model-driven applications.
- Lead development of Dataverse customisations including plugins and workflows.
- Implement scalable data models and performance optimisation strategies.
- Ensure reuse through shared components and design patterns.
ALM, Environments & Deployment
- Own and evolve ALM strategies across all environments.
- Build and enforce CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
- Manage solution versioning, packaging, and release governance.
- Define environment provisioning and access control strategies.
Power Platform Governance & Centre of Excellence ( CoE )
- Lead the Power Platform CoE .
- Define and enforce governance standards and policies.
- Implement governance tooling such as CoE Starter Kit.
- Monitor and manage platform risks and compliance.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Engage with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and governance forums.
- Mentor developers and promote best practices.
- Bridge development and governance to ensure balance of agility and control.
Skills
QUALIFICATIONS
- Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale Power Platform solutions.
- Deep understanding of Dataverse architecture and solution design.
- Proven experience implementing ALM and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of governance, DLP policies, and security models.
- Experience leading or contributing to a Power Platform CoE .
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly language.
- Excellent collaboration and teamwork skills, working effectively across Technology, business teams, governance forums and delivery partners.
- Strong problem-solving mindset, with the ability to analyse complex issues and identify practical, scalable solutions.
- Ability to mentor and support other developers, promoting knowledge sharing, best practice and continuous improvement.
Our Benefits
ABOUT US
We offer all employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on their whole wellbeing. This includes hybrid working, a competitive base salary, non-contributory pension, discretionary bonus, insurances including health (family) and dental cover, and many other benefits to enhance financial, physical, social and psychological health.
About Canopius
Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda.
At Canopius we foster a distinctive, positive culture which enables us to bring our whole selves to work to flourish as people, and build a business which delivers profitable, sustainable results.
Based in incredible new offices in the heart of the City of London, Canopius operates a flexible, hybrid working model and is committed to providing an environment that challenges employees to be their best and where everyone's unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected.
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion or beliefs, marital or caring status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage and welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds.
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