Senior Sharepoint Consultant

Lorien; Greater London; On-site; GBP 74,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Lorien is seeking a SharePoint SME to maintain and enhance the SharePoint Online tenant, covering Teams, Viva Suite and related Microsoft 365 components. The role focuses on governance, training, and site provisioning in a modern architecture, with strong emphasis on user policies and risk mitigation.

The candidate will gather requirements, implement best practices, and develop web parts/adaptive cards, while supporting Power Platform deployments and automation using PowerShell.

Qualifications

• Proficient in SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 technologies with 7+ years of experience.
• Experience in developing SPFx web parts and adaptive cards.
• Experience creating governance policies for SharePoint Online.
• Experience automating admin processes with Power Automate, Power Apps and PowerShell (including PNP).
• Experience with JSON customization of SharePoint lists and migrations.
• SharePoint training and administration experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance the SharePoint Online tenant and governance.
• Implement best practices, training, site provisioning, and permissions management.
• Gather business requirements for solutions across Microsoft stack.
• Develop web parts and adaptive cards to improve processes.
• Support deployment of new Microsoft platforms such as Viva.
• Automate processes using PowerShell and related tools.

Skills

SharePoint Online

Microsoft 365

SPFx web parts

PowerShell

Power Automate

Power Apps

JSON

Adaptive cards

Governance & policy

Azure DevOps

End user training

Tools

SPFx

PowerShell

JSON

Power Automate

Power Apps

Azure DevOps

Job description

• Location – Compass Centre, TW6 2GW - 3 days onsite
• Pay Rate / Salary – £400-550 per day

Role Purpose

SharePoint SME for covering SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Viva Suite, and other components of Modern Workplace. This is a technical role. The role will primarily be working on maintaining and enhancing the existing SharePoint Online tenant, identifying, and supporting opportunities to improve and develop processes and governance.

This will be achieved through implementing best practice for SharePoint including end user training, site provisioning and permissions management in line with modern flat architecture for SharePoint.

Gather requirements from the business for creating solutions across the Microsoft stack, including SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and the Power Platform.

Development and management of custom content including web parts and adaptive cards.

Focus on ethos of simple and structured but not over-engineered.

Monitor and improve the search capabilities of SharePoint online.

Provide support to business-critical solutions developed on or using SharePoint.

Support with the deployment of new Microsoft platforms and solutions such as Viva.

Principal Accountabilities

• Build user policies, guidelines, training, deal with ad hoc requests/questions.
• Handle and mitigate risk, audit outcomes, and ensure alignment to any cyber security changes (or challenges)
• Monitor and improve the search capabilities of SharePoint online.
• Support the SharePoint roadmap and associated communications, updates to any documentation, systems config and reporting, new release training.
• Monitor Intranet search results and maintain search terms, rankings, and weightings accordingly.
• Provide expertise on steering governance and policy to provide a service built on best practice.
• Work with all SharePoint Admins across all BUs, ensuring they are correctly in place, have access to training, understand policies on permissions (work with Cyber security team and Data Privacy on any risks, issues these teams find with SharePoint)
• Develop and upgrade SharePoint to bring it more in line with current best practice around site architecture and Microsoft Search.
• Provide SharePoint developments within the business, promoting best practice and a standardised approach to SharePoint management.
• Develop web parts and adaptive cards to supplement and improve business processes on SharePoint.
• Support with the automation of processes through Powershell.

Qualifications and Experience

• SharePoint management and development experience

Specifically:

• Proficient in SharePoint Online and other Microsoft 365 technologies such as Microsoft Teams and Viva with minimum of 7 years of experience.
• Knowledge and experience of developing SPFx web parts and adaptive cards.
• Previous experience of creating policies and governance required to ensure good behaviours and practices, preferably following current best practice for SharePoint Online.
• Experience of automating administrative processes through Power Automate, Power Apps and PowerShell (including PNP).
• Experience of customising SharePoint lists through JSON.
• Experience with SharePoint migrations.
• SharePoint training and qualifications
• SharePoint administration
• PowerShell
• JSON
• CSS
• HTML
• Organised self-starter
• Analytical, ability to understand and gather requirements of the business for creation of new processes or further development of existing processes.
• Excellent communicator – listener, explaining of concepts; written and verbal.
• IT Project management knowledge or qualifications (Azure Dev Ops or equivalent)