Are you a forward-thinking Platforms Engineer ready to make a real impact? At HCPC, we are looking for 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. 

The IT department operates in a dynamic environment employing leading technology to support a dynamic organisation that has a track record of change and growth. Currently delivering major business projects, adopting enterprise cloud technologies.

Main Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority in supporting HCPC's transition towards platform-centric IT solutions.[JR1]
• 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.
• Maintain clear and regular updates on task tracking platforms (minimum once per week unless otherwise agreed).

Candidate Requirements 

Essential Skills:

• Ability to clearly 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.

Qualification:

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

Location:  Hybrid working with a mandatory attendance of 1 day weekly at our office in London

Closing Date: Wednesday 19th of November 2025 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 1st of December 2025. Interviews will be on MS Teams

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

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.