SharePoint Developer - (1686) at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland

Key Responsibilities of the incumbent include but are not limited to: 

• Design, develop, maintain and support the current and new SharePoint sites based on business requirements,
• Extend SharePoint functionality with new web parts and extensions, 
• Configure the SharePoint solutions to specified requirements,
• Develop workflows as per business requirement using Microsoft Power Platform (incl. Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents), 
• Authoring of written documentation to support developed solutions,
• Identify new and emerging technologies and products based on own area of expertise,
• Provide 2nd and 3rd line incident resolution,
• Identify, report and manage issues and risks,
• Testing and debugging code as well as quality assurance,
• Estimate the efforts involved for development and implementation tasks and prepare Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as needed,
• Review performance and software stability and health of SharePoint sites,
• Participate in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) phases especially solution design, development, configuration, testing, deployment and maintenance of SharePoint sites,
• Work in collaboration with the various ICS units, particularly the ICS Project Management Office, Infrastructure & Operations team and Application Development teams, towards the successful delivery of various projects,
• Training and mentorship of junior developers.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education and experience required: 

• A 3 year Degree (NQF 7) or an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, together with 5 years of relevant experience developing SharePoint site 
• or, a relevant SharePoint or Office 365 certification with 8 years’ experience working in the Office 365/Sharepoint development domain.

Minimum competencies required: 

• Experience implementing SharePoint On-Premises, SharePoint Online, Power Platform and O365 solutions,
• Experience of SharePoint Framework (SPFx), SharePoint PnP, SharePoint Search, TypeScript, C#, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript,
• Basic experience of SharePoint APIs,
• Basic understanding of service-oriented and object-oriented development environment,
• Understanding of modern SharePoint web stack and creating deployable packages,
• Experience creating low code/no code solutions using PowerApps and Power Automate workflows,
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Graph and Azure Active Directory,
• Understanding hybrid implementation of SharePoint on-premise and SharePoint online and related complexities,
• Experience of SharePoint document and record management and data migration and migration tools,
• Proven ability to develop innovative, secure, scalable, re-usable, user-friendly and accessible solutions.