SharePoint Platform Engineer

About the role

The SharePoint Platform Engineer will lead governance, optimization and continuous improvement of SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 collaboration services. Working with platform administrators and the digital workplace experience team, the engineer will translate business requirements into low‑code, no‑code and custom solutions that enhance productivity, content management and employee experience.

Key responsibilities

• Perform tenant‑level configuration, governance enforcement, platform optimization and operational administration.
• Design and maintain secure permission architectures, including SharePoint groups, Microsoft 365 Groups, role‑based access controls and inheritance models.
• Identify, remediate and govern orphaned sites, unmanaged collaboration spaces and non‑compliant configurations.
• Develop, maintain and enforce SharePoint governance standards, operational procedures, templates and platform guardrails.
• Design and implement information architecture using metadata, managed metadata (Term Store), content types, site columns and modern SharePoint capabilities.
• Review and optimize existing sites, document libraries, lists and content structures to improve usability, adoption and search effectiveness.
• Establish standards for document management, version control, content lifecycle management, retention and single‑source‑of‑truth practices.
• Design, implement and support workflow automation solutions using SharePoint Lists, Power Automate, Forms alternatives, business rules and modern Microsoft 365 capabilities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to streamline and automate manual operational processes.

Required profile

• Proven experience designing, governing and optimizing SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective low‑code/no‑code and custom‑developed solutions.
• Strong understanding of information architecture, metadata management and content lifecycle best practices.

Required skills

• SharePoint Online
• Microsoft 365 (Groups, Teams, OneDrive)
• Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI)
• PowerShell scripting
• SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
• Microsoft Graph API
• Metadata, Term Store, Content Types, Site Columns
• Workflow automation with Power Automate
• Governance and security configuration