Global System for Mobile Communications Association

Department: IT Department 

Team: IT Applications 

Location: London 

Position type: Permanent 

What the hiring manager says 

We're looking for an experienced and highly skilled SharePoint & Power Platform Developer to join the M365 Business Applications team and help us build the future of our digital workplace! This is a fantastic opportunity to use your skills to create innovative solutions across our Microsoft platforms, including our external Member platform and internal systems. If you're passionate about SharePoint, Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps and want to make a real difference for our employees and members, we want to hear from you! 

About the Team 

The GSMA M365 Business Applications team is a dedicated group of specialists responsible for our entire M365 ecosystem. We manage multiple M365 and Azure environments, ensuring everything runs smoothly for our 700 staff members and thousands of client users on our Membership platform. The M365 team is part of the wider IT Applications team who manage the GSMA’s core platforms; M365, Salesforce and Workday. The team have specialists in each area ensuring system availability and constant development & innovation are maintained for GSMA’s key processes. 

About the Role 

In this role, you'll be designing, building, and implementing solutions using the latest Microsoft technologies. You'll be the technical expert, leading development and automation projects for both our external Member platform and our internal systems within the Microsoft 365 environment. 

You'll work closely with the M365 Lead to make sure solutions are aligned with GSMA's goals and meet the needs of our stakeholders. Using your expertise in SharePoint Online, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps), you'll analyse business challenges, gather requirements and turn them into user-friendly solutions that help the GSMA thrive. 

Your responsibilities: 

• Develop full-stack solutions using current web technologies (e.g. SPFX, React.js, REST APIs) to create robust applications within SharePoint and M365. 
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Power Automate and other tools to streamline tasks and improve efficiency. 
• Build custom Power Apps (canvas and model-driven) to streamline processes, creating automated workflows with Power Automate and developing integrations with Azure Logic Apps 
• Understand, maintain and improve existing PowerShell & Microsoft Graph automation scripts 
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to analyse needs, gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions. 
• Analyse existing solutions to identify areas for improvement and automate business processes. 
• Work with suppliers to maintain and support new and existing deployed solutions 
• Proactively monitor and evaluate changes to the M365 and Azure platforms, assessing impacts and opportunities, and mitigating against future technical debt. 
• Customise SharePoint sites, pages, web parts, workflows, lists, libraries, and document management features. 
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends, including AI/Copilot and Copilot Studio and explore their potential applications. 

About You 

• You will have extensive experience designing, developing, and deploying custom SharePoint solutions using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx), including web parts, applications, and workflows. 
• You will have proven experience with Power Automate and Power Apps. 
• You will be proficient in JavaScript, React.js, TypeScript, PowerShell, PNP and CSS. 
• You will have a solid understanding of REST APIs and the Microsoft Graph API and ability to leverage them to integrate SharePoint with other systems. 
• You will be proficient with PowerShell scripting for automating tasks and managing SharePoint environments. 
• You will have experience with Azure, including logic apps, function apps and managed identities. 
• You will have experience using version control and CI/CD tools, e.g. GitHub, Azure DevOps, or equivalent. 
• You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with stakeholders at all levels. 
• You will be a proactive problem-solver with a strong analytical mindset and able to work independently and as part of a team. 
• You will have demonstrable experience in supporting non-technical users and interpreting their requirements into functional specifications. 
• You will be highly flexible & customer focused. 

Contract type

Regular

Worker type

Employee

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.