SharePoint Developer SME

Fantastic opportunity for an expert SharePoint Developer to work on a new Project that is groundbreaking!

We’re looking for a SharePoint Engineer with strong on-premises expertise to design, build, and support resilient SharePoint Subscription Edition environments within a secure, air-gapped infrastructure. This role blends deep platform engineering with practical development skills to deliver robust collaboration and document-management solutions for a highly regulated environment.

Office based in Farnborough.

SC Cleared or eligible for SC.

What you'll be doing:

• Acting as the SharePoint SME for designing and implementing resilient, fault-tolerant SharePoint Subscription Edition farms, including multi-datacentre failover and disaster-recovery configurations.
• Building workflows and automation using on-premises technologies such as SharePoint Framework (SPFx), PowerShell, and timer jobs.
• Creating and maintaining lists, libraries, content types, and site structures aligned to business processes and governance requirements.
• Implementing secure access, permissions models in-line with organisational, MOD, and NCSC policies.
• Integrating SharePoint with internal enterprise systems (e.g., ServiceNow, SQL-based systems, reporting platforms, and other on-prem applications).
• Customising the SharePoint user experience through modern UI approaches.
• Patching and upgrading the farms on regular release cadences and optimising performance.
• Supporting patching, upgrades, capacity planning, monitoring, and performance optimisation of SharePoint farms.

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience with SharePoint on-premises (2013/2016/2019/Subscription Edition) including farm architecture, configuration, and administration.
• Strong understanding of SharePoint infrastructure components: IIS, SQL Server, service applications, authentication providers, and network dependencies.
• Experience developing SharePoint solutions using SPFx (on-prem supported versions), PowerShell, and traditional SharePoint development models.
• Experience automating SharePoint provisioning, configuration, and deployment using PowerShell, scripts, or infrastructure-as-code approaches suitable for air-gapped environments.
• Solid understanding of information governance, document management, metadata design, and taxonomy.
• Familiarity with secure-environment delivery practices, including change control and release management.
• Ability to produce clear technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides, and release notes.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working within secure or regulated environments (MOD, Defence, Government).
• Knowledge of security accreditation processes or NCSC guidance.
• Understanding of MOD Secure by Design (SbD) principals and associated JSPs.
• Experience with SharePoint migration tools (e.g., ShareGate) in offline or restricted environments.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Farnborough

Security Clearance Level: SC Cleared or eligible.

Internal Recruiter: Jane

Salary: To £65K

£5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.