M365 Developer – Sharepoint, Power Platform

Department: IT Department

Team: Enterprise Architecture – Development Team

Location: London with hybrid ways of working

Position type: Short Term Contractor (6 months)

What the hiring manager says

“We're looking for an experienced and highly skilled SharePoint & Power Platform Developer to join the Enterprise Architecture Development team and help us build the future of our digital workplace. This is a fantastic opportunity to use your skills to create innovative solutions across our Microsoft platforms, including our external Member platform and internal systems.

If you're passionate about SharePoint, Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps and want to make a real difference for our employees and members, we want to hear from you!”

Enterprise Architect, IT Team

About the team

The GSMA Enterprise Architecture Development team is a dedicated group of specialists responsible for building solutions within M365. We manage multiple M365 and Azure environments, ensuring everything runs smoothly for our 800 staff members and thousands of client users on our Membership platform. The team are part of the wider Enterprise Architect team, which also includes Data, AI, and Automation capabilities.

About the role

In this role, you'll be designing, building, and implementing solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies. Joining an in-flight project at an early stage, you'll be a technical expert, influencing solution design and undertaking development within the Microsoft 365 environment.

In addition, you will work closely with the team to make sure other automation projects are delivered with solutions that are aligned with GSMA's goals and meet the needs of our stakeholders.  Using your expertise in SharePoint Online, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps), you'll analyse business challenges, gather requirements and turn them into user-friendly solutions that help the GSMA thrive.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop full-stack solutions using current web technologies (e.g. SPFX, React.js, REST APIs) to create robust applications within SharePoint and M365.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Power Automate and other tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiency.

• Build custom Power Apps (canvas and model-driven) to streamline processes, creating automated workflows with Power Automate and developing integrations with Azure Logic Apps

• Understand, maintain and improve existing PowerShell & Microsoft Graph automation scripts

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to analyse needs, gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Analyse existing solutions to identify areas for improvement and automate business processes.

• Work with suppliers to maintain and support new and existing deployed solutions

• Customise SharePoint sites, pages, web parts, workflows, lists, libraries, and document management features.

About You

• You will have extensive experience designing, developing, and deploying custom SharePoint solutions using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx), including web parts, applications and extensions.

• You will have proven experience with Power Automate and Power Apps.

• You will be proficient in TypeScript, React, JavaScript and modern front-end tooling for SPFx development.

• You will have an expert understanding of REST APIs and Microsoft Graph API and the ability to extract data from all areas of the M365 ecosystem (e.g. Exchange, MS Teams), to integrate with SharePoint, Azure objects, databases and other systems.

• You will have experience of assessing and implementing the most suitable data storage options to support particular solutions (SP Lists, SQL databases etc).

• You will be proficient with PowerShell for M365 and SharePoint automation, including PnP PowerShell.

• You will have experience with Azure specifically deploying and configuring logic apps, function apps, managed identities Azure Runbooks, Managed Identities

• You will have experience using version control and CI/CD tools, e.g. GitHub, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.

About your skills

Delivery – you will have an outstanding commitment to delivery, including early awareness of, and alerting to, dependencies and potential blockers.

Teamwork – you will be able to work effectively alongside peers in a collaborative environment, whilst also being able to work individually on your contributions to project goals

Stakeholder Management – you will be able to work with business stakeholders and IT colleagues at all levels, to understand their needs and keep them involved and informed throughout the development lifecycle

Analysis – you will have excellent analysis skills to convert requirements into designs and deliverables

Innovation – the solutions we create for our stakeholders are as varied as the breadth of our business, and you will use your skills and experience to deliver innovative solutions

We strive to offer a meaningful and inclusive application experience for all candidates. Should you require any accommodations or adjustments due to a disability or for any other reason during the hiring process, please contact [email protected] with your request.

Contract type

Short term Contractor

Worker type

Contingent Worker

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.