Application Engineer - SharePoint, Power Platform, and M365

Livewest

The Role

Overview

Develop and maintain SharePoint/Power Platform solutions in an Agile, hybrid role.

Key Responsibilities

  • cloud management
  • power platform
  • power apps
  • sharepoint
  • change management
  • system implementation

Tasks

-Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver tailored solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability. -Monitor and manage cloud platform resources, licensing, and capacity to ensure responsive access, working with Infrastructure colleagues for proactive monitoring and resolution. -Oversee configuration and change management within projects, ensuring robust data quality, lifecycle documentation, and smooth handover to BAU teams. -Lead and manage systems improvement and implementation projects aligned with the IT strategy, meeting internal and statutory deadlines. -Integrate Power Platform with Microsoft 365 services and third-party APIs. -Engage and consult with the business to provide technical guidance, evaluate new processes, improve existing ones, and implement cloud platform architecture for efficiency. -Develop and maintain applications using Power Apps. -Configure and manage SharePoint Online sites and permissions. -Communicate and present complex technical information clearly and with integrity to all levels of the organisation and external stakeholders.

Requirements

  • power platform
  • sharepoint
  • azure
  • power automate
  • power fx
  • prince2

What You Bring

-Extensive experience with Power Platform tools and SharePoint Online. -Extensive experience of building and deploying solutions using the M365 and Azure platforms. -Experience of project management and leading project teams. -Excellent understanding of IT systems environment and requirements gathering. -Experience with governance, lifecycle management, and security in M365. -Good level of literacy and numeracy. -Appropriate technical certification - M365, Azure Services. -Desirable: Recognised project management qualification e.g. PRINCE 2, AGILE. -Excellent Consultancy and communication skills and the ability to influence decisions at a senior level. -Extensive experience of operating in a business partner model, working with key stakeholders to create positive business outcomes. -Ability to clearly present technical information to non-technical staff using a variety of techniques and tools, like Power BI. -Automate workflows with Power Automate. -Desirable: HND or Degree level in a relevant Discipline. -Extensive application systems and information technology experience. -Proficiency in Power FX, Canvas apps, and model-driven apps.

Benefits

-Health Benefits and Perks: Access to a health care cash plan (worth up to £1,100 annually), virtual GP services, discounted gym memberships, and retail discounts including access to a Blue Light Card. -Generous Annual Leave: Start with 26 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with length of service - and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days (pro rated for part time roles). -Learning and Development: Invest in your future with ongoing personal and professional growth opportunities. -Wellbeing Matters: Prioritise your health with mental health support, enhanced sick pay, wellness campaigns, and free flu jabs. -Smarter Travel: Save with our Cycle to Work and Car Benefit schemes. -Family Support: Policies designed to help you balance work and family life, including a new child payment. -Pension Contributions: Enjoy up to 9% employer contributions with our Defined Contribution scheme. -Giving Back: Up to four paid volunteering days a year to support our communities. -Working Style: Hybrid working with 2 - 3 days in the office to support your work/life balance.

The Company

About Livewest

-Born in March 2018 from the merger of Knightstone Housing and DCH, it carries over decades of housing heritage across Cornwall to Gloucestershire. -It blends affordable rent, shared ownership, and private sale to fuel future development. -Reinvests profits from private-sale homes into more affordable housing, sustaining thousands of construction and supply-chain jobs. -Projects span supported housing for vulnerable groups through to contemporary shared-ownership developments. -Specializes in residential development and management, maintaining an in-house property services team handling repairs, compliance, and upgrades. -A standout initiative is its InFocus customer-scrutiny group, empowering residents to shape repair and service standards from the ground up.

Sector Specialisms

Residential

Affordable Housing

Community Support

Tenancy Sustainment

Customer Services

Property Management

Housing Development

Sustainability

Wellbeing Support

Visa Sponsorship

-role not eligible for certificate of sponsorship; candidates must already have the right to work in the uk.