T00120 Office 365 Productivity Consultant

Job Purpose

This is a customer facing role in our highly performing SharePoint team to cover all aspects of: requirements gathering, solution design, installation and implementation of Microsoft Office 365 Productivity applications,  SharePoint and associated technologies.  Our deployments include: single Server Foundation Farms, highly available Enterprise Servers and a lot of cloud and Office 365 work.  The selected candidate must be able to work on projects individually or as part of a team of consultants.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To attend business analysis meetings with customers to scope, gather requirements and design solutions.

• To implement solutions for Office 365 / SharePoint Online including other Office 365 products such as MS Teams, Planner etc.

• To carry out the installation and configuration of Microsoft SharePoint products on hosted or customers’ servers and workstation computers

• To upgrade, install and implement MS SharePoint across versions and editions

• To prepare and present classroom and onsite training to new and existing customers for Microsoft SharePoint & additional approved Stack products

• To carry out customisation of Microsoft SharePoint where appropriate to meet customers’ requirements using platform features, SharePoint Designer and middle tier technologies

• To manage and conduct projects in accordance with TSG’s methodology

• UK Wide travel and overnight stays will be required to fulfil the customers’ needs and the role.

• To carry out other implementation, training and support duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Your qualifications

• Microsoft Certified Solution Associate or Engineer with SharePoint exams an advantage

Your skills & knowledge

• At least 3 years’ experience installing and configuring SharePoint Server and Foundation

• At least 2 years’ experience in building and consulting on Office 365 solutions for customers

• Knowledge and experience in a wide cross set of the platform feature set.

• Understanding of SharePoint’s boundaries, both on-premise and Office 365 versions, and how these affect solution design.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and integrating into SharePoint

• Knowledge of customising SharePoint using client side scripting such as JSOM and REST desirable

• Knowledge of building SharePoint solutions using SPFx, Angular 1x and later versions desirable.

• Knowledge of SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services desirable

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Your experience

• Experience in similar role

Your behaviours

• Demonstrates enthusiasm and proactively seeks opportunities to improve the Service function

• Demonstrates commitment to the role, team and company, and will go the extra mile when required

• Demonstrates creativity and reacts positively to new challenges and change

• Team player but able to work on their own

• Ability to effectively train customers taking into account their existing skill levels

• Excellent customer facing skills, ability to think on your feet and apply technology to business functions in a consultative manner

• Self-starter and ability to use own initiative

• Prepared to travel

• Self-starter and ability to use own initiative