Senior M365 Developer

Work on the cutting edge of Microsoft 365 development!

Are you a gun at using React, SharePoint Framework (SPFx), Azure, PowerShell and .Net Core to create solutions for huge business problems?

Our team use the latest M365 technologies to solve interesting business problems for the biggest organisations in our region. Our local dev leads work hand in hand with our experienced consultants and our talented team of developers in Australia, NZ and eastern Europe.

In this role, you'll be using the latest technologies - and get to pioneer new techniques to take advantage of new features and APIs in Teams, SharePoint and Azure - with support direct from the Microsoft product teams who created these tools.

Why us?

Engage Squared is an award-winning, fast-growing company that believes in great workplace culture and investing in our people. We hire great people, work on interesting projects with amazing customers, and invest in our team; and we've just been named Microsoft Partner of the Year, Australia and were listed as one of the best places to work in the Australian tech industry in the Australian Financial Review's BOSS Best Places to Work list, and the best small companies to work in WRK+'s Work for the Best list.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we specialise in creating modern workplaces with Microsoft technologies; helping organisations to work better, together, faster. Our vision is to create a world where every employee has access to the tools, knowledge, and information that they need to enjoy work. Using modern work technologies, we can free employees from the friction of inefficient business processes, and fill gaps in knowledge or support from their team, leaders, and leadership, so that they are empowered to be productive.

This role is open to anyone located anywhere in Japan - preferably Tokyo. Want to work in an office? We're in Melbourne, Bendigo, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Auckland, Wellington, Tokyo and Bali.

Our successful technology consultancy undertakes projects for a variety of large organisations. With an impressive roster of clients, including ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, Bupa, Governments at all levels across Australia, Origin Energy and more, you'll be contributing to a growing team famed for their expertise in connecting people with technology.

We pride ourselves on being a fun, innovative and collaborative organisation that practices what we preach and delivers great customer results.
This role

This position is for a Senior M365 Developer with in our Japanese based team with a deep understanding of the delivery of solutions for Microsoft's cloud offering, encompassing the latest in SharePoint Online, Office 365, Azure, and supporting technologies. Combining client facing skills with hands-on delivery, you will liaise with clients, agile software development teams, and user experience designers to ensure our solutions are effectively delivered, and beautifully implemented. Your insight into the latest Microsoft development trends will enable you to provide thought leadership to development teams, and to customers, with the ultimate goal of delivering high profile, real-world business solutions with outstanding results.

Key responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be prepared to assist through multiple stages of a customer engagement cycle, including:

• Technical design, detailed solution design and implementation of business solutions based on Office 365, with particular focus on SharePoint,
• Managing development teams throughout the delivery of software development projects
• Setting up the project for technical success by implementing good Azure DevOps processes, pipelines and more
• Peer reviewing code submitted by the development team
• Owning your own backlog of development tasks - including the development of SPFx, SharePoint and Azure based components
• Being a point of technical escalation for the development team
• Owning work-streams and projects, and taking responsibility for their delivery
• Light touch project management and budget control of your projects
• Leading the production of technical and user documentation, and operational hand-over
• Providing technical and end user training to both internal and external clients
• Working both on and off-site with clients

Skills & Experience:

• Extensive experience on Microsoft platforms, particularly Office 365 and Azure
• Demonstrable knowledge of current and future trends in the delivery of Office 365 and Azure based solutions, in particular the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) & Patterns and Practices (PnP)
• Proven experience with front-end web technologies, including JavaScript, React, Bootstrap, jQuery, SASS, Underscore
• Demonstrable skill in leading a development team through project delivery, with the latest Microsoft cloud-based tools, Ability to train, up skill and manage team members
• Ability to work from own initiative and within a team environment
• Self-motivated and driven to achieve professional success in a consulting environment
• Ability to manage workload and time according to set deadlines
• Speaking Japanese is a real bonus here

We value inclusivity and diversity at Engage Squared. Please reach out if you don't have everything that we're asking for, but think you have the right skills and attitude to be great in this role!

We like to make our hiring decisions based on a combination of aptitude and passion, not just experience, so if you're keen to apply and need reasonable adjustments please let us know.