We are recruiting at HCPC for a forward-thinking IT Platform Engineer ready to make a real impact. You will be, someone who is passionate about innovation, Azure and excited by the possibilities of low-code solutions and thrives in a fast-evolving IT landscape. If you enjoy working with modern automation tools, delivering elegant solutions quickly, and enabling teams to move faster while reducing complexity, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Us
The IT and Digital department operates in a dynamic environment employing leading technology to support HCPC as an organisation that has a track record of change and growth. We are currently delivering major business projects, adopting enterprise cloud technologies.

Your Role

• Act as the technical authority in supporting HCPC's transition towards platform-centric IT solutions.
• Support DevOps practices while working closely with developers to support and implement low-code solutions. While this role is not a development position, a strong understanding of low-code platforms and their integration within development workflows is highly valued.
• Take full ownership of systems assigned, ensuring they are kept up to date, supported, secured, and aligned with organizational objectives.
• Liaise effectively with departments such as Procurement, Finance, and Business Change to complete administrative tasks related to system maintenance, support renewals, licensing and compliance.
• Ensure non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, scalability, resilience, monitoring, security, maintainability) are clearly defined, documented, and met for all technical changes and implementations across the organisation.
• Collaborate proactively with the Solutions Architect or 3rd party Vendors to drive forward all technical deliverables, ensuring clarity, alignment with architectural standards, and timely completion.
• Attend backlog prioritization and planning meetings, contributing technical insights and best practice recommendations.
• Deliver 3rd and 4th line support for platform infrastructure (network, servers, databases, cloud services).
• Maintain clear and regular updates on task tracking platforms
• Responsible for presenting RFCs in CAB meetings, clearly articulating changes, justifications, and impacts, and ensuring all associated documentation and approvals are in place.

What we are looking for
We are seeking someone who has:

• Ability to confidently communicate in meetings and articulate IT non-functional requirements (NFRs) in prioritisation meetings, highlighting their value and impact to stakeholders. Must be confident in estimating the effort and time required to deliver NFRs to support effective planning and decision-making.
• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, including Web Apps, App Services, Azure Site Recovery, Log Analytics, and Azure API Management.
• Strong understanding of systems integration and a keen interest in APIs. You should be confident working with API documentation and collaborating with technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Identity and Access Management tools such as Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Conditional Access, SAML, and Active Directory Domain Services.
• Proven ability to configure and manage Azure cloud monitoring tools.
• Track record of contributing to major projects and working effectively with third-party vendors and partners.
• Exposure to platforms such as dynamics CRM and Business Central would be an advantage but not essential
• 3rd and 4th line support experience for platform infrastructure (network, servers, databases, cloud services).

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related degree; or 5+ years of related experience depending upon level
• Azure certified - highly desirable

Further information on this role is detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification.  Please click here to download the Job Description and Person Specification

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Our values**

We are committed to recruiting individuals who are passionate about protecting the public and who embody the values that make HCPC a great place to work. Our values underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer. In addition to the core competencies for this role, we will also assess you against our values during the selection process: Please refer to the HCPC Values and Behavioural Framework.

Location:  Hybrid working with a mandatory attendance of 1-2 days a week at our office in London

Closing Date:  30 March 2026 (all vacancies close at 1pm) We reserve the right to close this job advert early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible

Interview Date: w/c 06 April 2026 – There will be multiple stages of interviews with the last stage being an on-site interview w/c 20 April 2026. A technical assessment will form part of the interview process.

Application information: Please submit a supporting statement along with your CV. Applications without a supporting statement will not be reviewed.

All candidates must have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Before starting employment, we will conduct thorough checks on original documentation to verify your right to work status. Please note that the HCPC does not offer a sponsorship scheme and is therefore unable to sponsor visa applications.

HCPC’s vision is to be recognised as an actively anti-discriminatory organisation that upholds and promotes best practice in equality, diversity and inclusion and an active ally for change. We are a Disability Confident employer and aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the HCPC. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to ensure the recruitment process is inclusive and barrier-free and will offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you would like to have a confidential discussion on how we can support you, please contact recruitment@hcpc-uk.org .

Our values underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer. In addition to the core competencies for this role, we will also assess you against our values during the selection process: Please refer to the  HCPC Values and Behavioural Framework.