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Closing Date
2025-08-11
Location: Durrington, Worthing (Hybrid 1-2 days a week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Market rate + bonus.
Hours: 37 hours
Are you ready to make a difference in the water & waste industry?
Southern Water are going through an immense digital transformation programme and require skilled and talented people to join our supportive and collaborative teams to deliver these transformation initiatives.
We are seeking an experienced
Lead SharePoint Developer to oversee the design, development, and optimisation of SharePoint environments across our enterprise of 3,000+ staff. You will be pivotal in driving collaboration, content governance, and digital workplace transformation through SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365.
The
Lead SharePoint Developer will manage the full lifecycle of SharePoint site development, from requirements gathering to deployment and support, while also leading a small offshore team of SharePoint developers. You will be a hands-on leader with both technical expertise and strong people management skills
Responsibilities To Include
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement enhancements.
- Maintain documentation, training materials, and support guides for end users and administrators.
- Analyse user requirements and convert requirements to design documents
- Provide solutions to business challenges
- Provide comprehensive support to internal customers; achieve resolution to outstanding problems or issues
- Compile timely, comprehensive and accurate documentation and or reports
- Lead the design, build, and deployment of SharePoint Online sites, hubs, and content structures
- Manage and mentor a small offshore team of SharePoint developers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and adherence to best practices.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and deliver scalable SharePoint solutions.
- Oversee the development of workflows, forms, and automation using Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps).
- Ensure governance, compliance, and security standards are met across all SharePoint environments.
- Drive continuous improvement in ECM practices, including metadata management, content lifecycle, and user adoption.
- Provide technical leadership in ECM architecture, integration, and migration projects.
- Stay up-to-date knowledge of technological developments in the industry
- Communicate effectively and professionally in all forms of communication with internal and external customers
- Possess strong problem solving and decision-making skills while using good judgment
- Stakeholder engagement and management
Knowledge And Experience Needed
- Demonstrable experience leading SharePoint Online development in a large enterprise environment
- Hands-on experience with SharePoint Framework (SPFx), PowerShell, Power Platform, and PnP provisioning
- Demonstrable experience of software development lifecycles including Waterfall, Agile in the ECM domain
- Ability to lead development of code components or complete applications.
- Understand concepts of software engineering and ability to work across multiple ECM applications
- Demonstrated ability to manage and mentor remote teams
- Self-starting
- Excellent attention to detail
- Customer focused and articulate
- Knowledge of IT Service Management toolsets, including Knowledge Base & Configuration Management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, flexible and a proactive team player.
- Internally this role is known as ECM Lead
What Do We Offer?
- 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
- Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers.
- Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution).
- An employee assistance program.
- A network of sports and social clubs.
- Company and performance-related bonus.
- Life assurance equal to 4x salary.
- Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service).
- Health Cash Plan.
- Two paid volunteering days a year.
- Occupational health service.
- Discounts with over 800 popular retailers.
- Digital GP service.
- Study support may be available for job-related qualifications.
- Competitive maternity & paternity leave and flexible return to work options.
- Cycle to work scheme.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.
