Azure Integration Engineer

Senior Azure Integration Engineer Department: Managed Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Belfast

Description Codec is seeking an experienced Senior Azure Integration Engineer to join a dedicated team responsible for the ongoing development, enhancement and evolution of a business-critical Microsoft application platform supporting essential public services.

The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, developing and enhancing integration and data solutions built on Microsoft Azure. Working within a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team, the role will focus on delivering new functionality, modernising integration processes, improving platform reliability and driving continual improvement across a complex enterprise application estate.

The solution integrates Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE, Dataverse, Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Integration Services, providing the opportunity to work across a modern cloud technology stack supporting critical business processes and citizen outcomes.

This is a managed application support and continuous improvement engagement rather than a greenfield build. Because the platform is business-critical and citizen-facing, the role demands the ability to troubleshoot end-to-end across the full integration chain without extensive handoffs from on-premises and SFTP sources, through the Azure integration tier, into Dynamics 365 and out to downstream payment interfaces.

The estate spans both classic data-integration technologies (ADF, SSIS, Azure SQL) and application-level components (Azure WebJobs, .NET services), so breadth of hands-on capability across that boundary is essential.

In addition to development and enhancement activities, the role will provide technical expertise in the investigation and resolution of complex integration and data-related issues, acting as a senior escalation point where deep technical knowledge is required.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong Azure professional who enjoys solving challenging integration problems, working with modern cloud technologies and contributing to the long-term evolution of a strategically important Microsoft platform.

Key Responsibilities Integration Design & Development

• Design, develop and enhance Azure integration and data solutions supporting critical business processes.
• Deliver new integration capabilities, automation solutions and platform improvements aligned to customer requirements.
• Develop and maintain data movement, transformation and orchestration processes using Azure-native services.
• Develop, maintain and troubleshoot Azure WebJobs and .NET background services - including batch processing, retry logic, error handling and notification mechanisms - which form a core part of the operational estate.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical design activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, supportability and operational efficiency.
• Participate in technical workshops and collaborate with architects, engineers and customer stakeholders.

Platform Enhancement & Continuous Improvement

• Lead the technical implementation of approved enhancement initiatives and change requests.
• Analyse existing integrations and recommend improvements to performance, maintainability and operational resilience.
• Identify and address technical debt across integration and data services.
• Support the adoption of new Azure capabilities and cloud-native technologies where appropriate.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution and modernisation of the overall solution architecture.

Azure Engineering

• Develop and maintain solutions built using:
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure SQL
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure Storage
• Azure App Services
• Azure WebJobs
• Azure Key Vault
• SSIS packages (including the Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime) and KingswaySoft connectors for Dynamics/Dataverse data movement
• Self-Hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR) for hybrid, on-premises and SFTP-based integrations.

Additional expectations Support the delivery of secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions. Promote engineering best practices and technical standards.

Security & Assurance

• Security is a core service pillar for this platform, not a supporting activity. The successful candidate will:
• Implement changes in line with secure development practices and the customer's security posture (least privilege, Managed Identities over stored secrets, Key Vault usage).
• Support vulnerability management and remediation activities across the integration estate.
• Contribute to security testing, audit evidence provision and assurance activities aligned to ISO 27001:2022, Cyber Essentials Plus and GovAssure / CAF.
• Follow secure change and access-control processes appropriate to a citizen-facing public sector payments platform.

DevOps, Release & Quality Management

• Support deployment and release activities using Azure DevOps.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation and automation initiatives.
• Participate in code reviews and technical quality assurance activities.
• Collaborate with development and testing teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Support continuous improvement of application lifecycle management practices.

Technical Leadership & Escalation Support

• Act as a senior technical resource within the delivery team.
• Provide expert analysis and resolution of complex integration and data-related issues.
• Perform end-to-end fault diagnosis across hybrid integration chains - e.g. SFTP SHIR Blob Storage ADF SSIS Dynamics 365, and Dynamics 365 WebJobs payment interfaces - isolating failure points independently.
• Participate in root cause analysis and major incident investigations.
• Support knowledge sharing and mentoring within the wider engineering team.
• Contribute to technical documentation, design artefacts and operational runbooks.
• Build and maintain operational runbooks and knowledge-capture to reduce key-person dependency on a lean support team.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work directly with customer stakeholders and delivery teams to understand technical requirements and business objectives.
• Translate business requirements into robust technical integration solutions.
• Provide technical input into roadmap planning, solution design and continual improvement initiatives.
• Build trusted customer relationships through technical expertise and quality delivery.
• Coordinate effectively within a multi-supplier operating model, managing cross-boundary issues and escalations.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise The successful candidate will possess strong hands-on experience designing, developing and delivering Azure integration and data solutions within enterprise environments, together with genuine application-development ability across the .NET stack.

Azure Integration & Data Services

• Azure Data Factory (ADF)
• Azure SQL
• Azure Logic Apps
• Azure App Services
• Azure Storage
• Azure Key Vault
• SSIS & Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime
• KingswaySoft connectors
• Self-Hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR)
• SFTP and hybrid / on-premises interfaces
• API & Data Integration Solutions
• Data Transformation & Orchestration

Application Engineering

• C# / .NET (Core / .NET 6+)
• Azure WebJobs & background services
• Batch processing, retry and error-handling patterns
• Notification and messaging services

Cloud Engineering & DevOps

• Azure DevOps
• Source Control (Git)
• CI/CD Concepts
• Release Automation
• Deployment Management
• Infrastructure & Application Monitoring

Monitoring & Diagnostics

• Azure Application Insights
• Azure Monitor
• Performance Monitoring
• Root Cause Analysis
• Operational Troubleshooting

Architecture & Integration Design

• Integration Design Principles
• Data Architecture Fundamentals
• Technical Design Documentation
• Performance & Scalability Optimisation
• Secure Cloud Solution Design

Microsoft Business Applications (Highly Desirable) Exposure to Microsoft Business Applications technologies would be highly advantageous.

Business Applications

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE
• Microsoft Dataverse
• Microsoft Power Platform
• Power Automate
• Model-Driven Apps

Solution Understanding

• D365 Solution Configuration
• Plugin Troubleshooting
• Dataverse Data Structures
• Business Process Automation
• Application Integration Patterns

The ability to understand and troubleshoot business processes spanning both Azure and Dynamics 365 environments would be highly advantageous.

Essential

• Proven experience designing and developing Azure integration and data solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL and Logic Apps.
• Hands-on experience with C# / .NET and Azure WebJobs in an enterprise context.
• Experience with SSIS-based data integration and hybrid connectivity via SHIR.
• Experience delivering enhancements and new functionality within enterprise environments.
• Experience designing, implementing and supporting system integrations. . click apply for full job details