About this role
Closing Date
2026-02-11Job Title: Lead SharePoint Developer
Location: Durrington, hybrid working
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours
Salary: Market rate
About the role
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the evolution of our digital workplace for over 3,000 colleagues. As our SharePoint Development Lead, you’ll shape the future of collaboration, content governance, and user experience across SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365.
You’ll head up a small, skilled SharePoint development team within our Content and Collaboration function, driving modern, secure, user‑centred solutions that transform how the business works, shares, and communicates.
What you will be responsible for:
You’ll be the strategic and technical lead for all SharePoint development, ensuring we deliver solutions that are scalable, secure, and brilliantly designed.
Typical responsibilities include:
- Leading the design, build and deployment of SharePoint Online sites, structures, and digital experiences.
- Managing and mentoring a team of SharePoint developers, driving quality and continuous improvement.
- Working with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions that deliver real value.
- Overseeing workflow, form, and automation development using Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate).
- Driving ECM best practice, from metadata standards to content lifecycle and user adoption.
- Providing technical leadership across ECM architecture, integrations, performance improvements, and migrations.
- Ensuring governance, compliance, and security standards are applied consistently across the M365 environment
Additional role requirements
- This role incorporates Agile delivery, DevSecOps practices, and ownership of CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps.
- Expected to lead our Content & Collaboration Centre of Excellence, supporting and coaching citizen developers.
- Occasional out‑of‑hours work may be required to support high‑impact changes or platform updates.
What you’ll bring to the role
Essential
- Proven expertise in SharePoint Online and M365 development, including SPFx, PowerShell, PnP, and the Power Platform.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, including Agile, Scrum, and DevSecOps.
- Experience leading technical teams and delivering enterprise‑level digital collaboration solutions.
- Programming skills across .NET (C#, ASP.NET Core), JavaScript/TypeScript, and frameworks such as React.
- Experience working with Azure DevOps and cloud‑based architectures.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
Desirable
- Scrum Master or Product Owner certification.
- Experience in UX, design thinking, or user research within digital product development.
Southern Water is at the forefront of transforming Britain’s water industry, investing significantly to enhance resilience, sustainability, and service excellence. With £7.8bn planned investment for 2025-30, this is an unparalleled opportunity to join a business committed to delivering a generational shift in the way water services are managed.
You will be joining at a time of significant change, working alongside a highly skilled leadership team with a clear vision for the future. We offer an environment where senior professionals can make a meaningful impact, influence major strategic decisions, and drive long-term value creation
At Southern Water, we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our team, we’d love to hear from you—even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.
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- Introduce Yourself)
Our Commitment to Diversity
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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Other facts
About Southern Water
We are one of the largest water and wastewater companies in the South East of England and thrive on the passion and hard work of more than 2,000 employees.
Together we supply 532 million litres of drinking water every day to more than two million customers and treat and recycle 717 million litres of wastewater for more than four million customers in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Water is essential to every aspect of our lives and we're proud to be at the heart of managing water and wastewater services. We drink it, cook with it and use it to clean. Our water supply faces big challenges - the population of the South East is growing fast, and climate change is bringing greater risk of droughts and more extreme weather. It’s a future of more people needing water and wastewater services, with less water to go around.
So, together with our customers and communities, we aim to provide a sustainable, high-quality water and wastewater service that helps us create a resilient future for water in the South East.
Find out more about us:
Website: www.southernwater.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SouthernWater
Twitter: @SouthernWater
Instagram: @southernwatermedia
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What you'll do
- You will lead the design, build, and deployment of SharePoint Online sites and manage a team of SharePoint developers. Additionally, you will work with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions and ensure governance and compliance standards are met.
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