D365 Technical Consultant - Contract

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together. We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow. As a D365 Developer at NCS, you will be a vital part of a high-performing development team. While your primary focus is hands-on development, a key aspect of your role will involve mentoring fellow developers. You will act as a resident expert, providing guidance on Dynamics 365, Power Apps, and Power Portals. This includes reviewing completed work and offering constructive feedback to foster continuous growth. You will also be strategically allocating user stories and bugs across the team to maximize effectiveness and minimize technical conflicts, directly contributing to our culture of continuous improvement and shared success. Responsibilities - Hands-on Development: Lead the design and development of enterprise solutions within Dynamics 365, Power Apps, and Power Portals, ensuring high-quality, scalable code delivery. - Code Review & Quality Assurance: Conduct detailed code reviews for the development team, offering constructive feedback to ensure adherence to best practices and project standards. - Workflow Strategy: Strategically allocate user stories and bug fixes across the development team to maximize efficiency, balance workloads, and minimize technical conflicts. - Requirements Translation: Act as a bridge between functional stakeholders and the technical team by translating complex business requirements and user stories into actionable technical specifications and tasks. - Agile Collaboration: Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, managing development workflows to ensure timely delivery and alignment with project goals. - Continuous Improvement: Champion a culture of continuous improvement by identifying process bottlenecks and suggesting optimizations for development and deployment practices. - Proven experience in a D365 Developer or Technical Consultant, with a strong track record in D365 projects - Expert-level knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem, specifically Dynamics 365, Power Apps, and Power Portals. - Demonstrated ability to conduct detailed code reviews and manage a development workflow within an Agile or similar environment. - Exceptional skill in translating functional requirements and user stories into detailed technical specifications and tasks. - Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to act as the bridge between the development team and other project stakeholders. Essential: - Apigee X Expertise: Strong hands-on experience designing, engineering, and operating Apigee X (or Apigee Edge) in enterprise environments. - GCP Infrastructure & Security: Deep experience across GCP platform services (IAM, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Cloud Run, Cloud Logging) and cloud networking (VPC, Private Service Connect, ILB, Private Service Access). - Vertex AI Integration: Practical experience integrating Vertex AI or managed GCP ML services through secure enterprise platform paths. - Identity & Security Protocols: Strong mastery of REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT validation, and federated identity integration. - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep proficiency with Terraform and modern GitLab CI/CD pipelines.Desirable: - Exposure to Apigee LLM policies (token quotas, prompt limits, model operation groups) or Google Cloud Model Armor / Cloud DLP. - Experience with enterprise observability toolsets (Dynatrace, ELK, or Cortex XSIAM) or BigQuery log analytics. - Familiarity with FinOps cost-allocation labeling, billing exports, or consumer-level chargeback models for AI workloads. - Exposure to cross-cloud AI gateway patterns (e.g., AWS Bedrock, AWS SigV4) or Model Context Protocol (MCP) / agentic AI frameworks.  Why NCS? This is a place for people who like to get stuck in, bring ideas to life and make things happen. You'll work alongside experienced people who care about what they do, contribute to meaningful work and have the support to keep learning and grow your career.  Whether you want to deepen your expertise, explore something new or take your career in a different direction, there's room to make it your own.  We value Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership and Unity - bringing curiosity, collaboration and accountability to the way we work with our clients and each other. Ready to make extraordinary happen? We'd love to hear from you. We celebrate diversity and inclusion We value different perspectives, experiences and strengths our people bring.  We're committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to contribute, grow and succeed, and to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Important information Applicants will need valid Australian work rights and may be required to undergo relevant background, probity and police checks. Agencies: NCS accepts candidate submissions only from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal.