Microsoft Platform Developer

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global luxury hotel management company located in Toronto is seeking a Microsoft Power Platform Developer to manage O365 solutions. The role includes gathering requirements, vendor management, and automating processes. Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in O365 and strong communication skills. This position offers a hybrid work model, requiring three days a week in the office.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years experience providing custom solutions in O365.
• Proven DevOps experience demonstrating improved collaboration.
• Experience in leading multiple large-scale releases and teams.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document end user requirements for O365 solutions.
• Architect, develop, and support O365 solutions.
• Maintain relationships with outside consultants and vendors.

Skills

Communication with stakeholders

End user requirements gathering

Task automation

Problem-solving

Negotiation skills

Education

University degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

O365 technologies (Power Platform, Teams, SharePoint)

VSCODE or comparable development environment

AZURE DEVOPS

Job description

Overview

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture. At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company\'s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do. The Microsoft Power Platform Developer is responsible for architecting, developing and supporting solutions adhering to established best practices and guidelines supported by the Four Seasons\' Enterprise Architecture team. This position will be accountable for managing internal / external development groups in the analysis, design, development, implementation and support of business applications to ensure and maintain alignment with business strategies. This Contract role is based in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario, reporting to the Director of Corporate System. This role involves interactions with primarily internal stakeholders at various levels.

What You’ll Be Doing

Key Activities/ What You\'ll Be Doing

Functional Requirement Documentation:

• Working directly with application sponsors, gather and document end user requirements for solutions targeted in Office 365 (O365)

Architecting, planning, development and support of O365 solutions:

• Leverage Power Platform, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, to provide out-of-box solutions for both Corporate and Hotel entities
• Provide custom solutions in the O365 leveraging PnP, SharePoint API, Microsoft Graph API
• Where required, re-architect and migrate existing SharePoint 2013 process to O365
• Follow standards coding standards established by Four Seasons, including adhering to the Enterprise Architecture team\'s recommendations of platform selection and code management
• Provide end user support for solutions in O365

Vendor Management:

• Maintain relationships with outside consultants and development companies
• Provide detailed functional requirements
• Work with vendors to ensure on-time delivery of functional requirements

Automation:

• Using PowerShell PnP, provide automations to support Teams, OneDrive user management, and other needs related to 0365

Desired Skills/ Who You Are

• Ability to effectively communicate and work with business stakeholders to manage projects
• Ability to both gather end user requirements and provide scalable solutions in O365
• Ability to identify and solve for opportunities of task automation.
• Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others.
• Ability to understand complex technologies
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to negotiate difficult, complex contract terms with vendors.

Technical Skills and Experience

• Deep understanding of O365 technologies including Power Platform , Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint
• Strong knowledge of VSCODE or comparable development environment
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Connectors
• Working knowledge of Dataverse.
• Working knowledge of AZURE DEVOPS

Experience, Education and Professional Qualifications / What You Bring

• Minimum of 7 years relevant experience providing custom solutions in O365
• University degree in Computer Science of Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience in leading multiple, concurrent, large-scale releases and teams covering design, development, implementation and support
• Experience with providing solutions that require integration with enterprise level solutions such as Service Now, Workday and Azure Directory.
• Proven DevOps experience demonstrating improved collaboration across IT teams, accelerate deploy cycles, and deliver better experiences with this modern software development methodology.
• Experienced on enterprise scale SharePoint implementation and migration
• Proven ability to learn new businesses and technologies
• Ability to manage and execution against project plan and delivery commitments
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to deal with colleagues at all levels
• Formal training SharePoint REST API, MS GRAPH API, PowerShell PnP
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps or comparable code repository management solution

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid

Four Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.