SharePoint Developer

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We’re looking for a SharePoint Developer to join our UK IT Business Applications team on a permanent basis, based in either London or Peterborough. This role is ideal for someone with strong SharePoint and Microsoft 365 development experience, including SPFx, who enjoys solving technical problems, improving systems, and helping teams work smarter through secure, scalable technology.

You’ll be joining the Bauer UK IT Business Applications team - the specialists behind SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 and supporting .NET platforms that power critical business operations across our publishing and audio brands.

Sitting within Bauer IT, this team designs, develops and supports SharePoint-based business applications that enable colleagues across editorial, commercial, finance and operations to work efficiently and securely. From modernising legacy integrations to enhancing Microsoft 365 solutions, we ensure our technology estate is stable, scalable and aligned to business needs.

Working closely with Business Analysts, Project Managers, the IT Service Desk and infrastructure teams, we deliver high-quality solutions while maintaining operational excellence - helping Bauer teams focus on creating content and services that enrich everyday life.

As a SharePoint Developer within Bauer IT - UK, you will play a key role in ensuring our SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 and .NET business applications are secure, reliable and continuously evolving.

Your work will directly support the systems that power our publishing, audio and commercial operations — enabling teams across Bauer UK to work efficiently and deliver high-quality content and services to millions of people every day.

By balancing development, enhancement and third-line support, you will ensure stability today while building smarter, more scalable solutions for tomorrow.

You will design, build, enhance and support SharePoint and Microsoft 365 business applications as well as related integrations across Bauer's Microsoft web applications estate. This includes delivering new functionality, maintaining existing solutions, and providing third-line support in partnership with the wider IT team.

This is a hands-on SharePoint developer role. You will spend a significant proportion of your time working on SharePoint Online solutions, including SPFx development, rather than purely administrative or Power Platform-only work.

You will:

• Deliver enhancements and new solutions to agreed scope and timelines.
• Translate business requirements into secure, scalable and supportable technical solutions.
• Enhance and maintain SharePoint Online solutions, including SPFx components (Type Script/React), forms and dashboards.
• Maintain and support related .NET components where required.
• Develop and maintain integrations using REST/JSON APIs and service endpoints.
• Build and maintain automation scripts (Power Shell/PnP, SQL) for monitoring, reporting and recovery.
• Provide technical support across .NET and SharePoint Online systems owned by the team.
• Investigate and resolve incidents and service requests via the IT Service Desk, ensuring clear documentation.
• Maintain and monitor integration infrastructure including Linux file servers (Samba/DFS), cron jobs, Windows Task Scheduler and SFTP/SSHFS-mounted backups.
• Support migration and decommissioning of legacy systems.
• Coordinate with Linux administration, Global Cloud teams and Finance application owners on access management, SSH key rotation, SSRS schedule migration and service sign-off.
• Engage proactively with stakeholders to communicate progress, risks and decisions.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Power Platform (Power Apps and Power Automate) development, support and administration.
• Power Shell automation and troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of SQL for querying and integration support.
• Experience using version control systems (e.g. Git) and modern development tools (e.g. Visual Studio).
• Systems integration experience using REST/JSON APIs and web services.
• Experience…