Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this – providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.
Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark. You might be working with the technology and data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. It’s a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects you’ll both take pride in and feel passionate about.
In this key role, you’ll lead the technical design, development, and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions across the Microsoft Power Platform, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives. Working closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and development teams, you’ll guide architectural decisions, set technical standards, and support solutions through their full lifecycle—helping to drive Heathrow’s digital transformation and modern workplace strategy.
- Ensuring the technical & non-functional design of Power Platform solutions are aligned with the overall strategic objectives & technical guidance set out by the Technology Department.
- Ensuring Power Platform solutions continue to be secure, performant, available, scalable & maintainable, whilst adhering to all relevant Technology standards and practices.
- Responsibility for providing a continuous assessment of the technical quality of delivery & the performance of development teams working on products on the Power Platform.
- Working closely with Business Analysts to validate business requirements, and assess feasibility and suitability of various Power Platform components and design suitable solutions for the business.
- Working closely with the Product Owner, to maintain a prioritised backlog of work items to be completed by a development team, balancing the need for new Functional Requirements and the security, availability & performance of solutions
- Ability to lead the Power Platform development standards and best practices, sharing knowledge, supporting technical issues and upskilling development teams
- Deep understanding of the full suite of Microsoft Power Platform tools (inc. Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, Power Pages and Power BI)
- Strong development experience using Power Platform out-of-the-box functionality, including best practices regarding optimisation, data modelling and security
- Strong technical foundation: advanced structured programming (Power FX, Java, Python, JSON), relational database concepts and structures, structured system analysis and design methods, etc.
- Strong Understanding of API, webservices and other technologies that can be used to transport data in an enterprise environment and interact with Power Platform
- Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, ALM processes and solution-based deployment Good understanding of Azure components and the inter-relationship with the Power Platform, from Application Insights, APIM, Logic Apps, etc. to basic Security Group management.
Ideally, you’ll have:
- Experience with AI tools and embedding AI components within Power Platform solutions, using AI Builder, Azure Open AI or other similar tools
There’s something so special about working at the world’s most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.
Every day, you’ll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.
It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we’re working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.
Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there’s no place like Heathrow.
Our rewards
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we’ll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we’ll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you’ll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.
Working Location
Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow . Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You’ll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.
Sustainable Travel to work
Heathrow’s Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
