SharePoint & Power Platform Lead

• We have a diverse & collaborative environment that inspires lifelong learning 
• We offer hybrid working that enables work life balance + 5 weeks annual leave 
• We are focused on holistic wellbeing to support you to be your best self. 

Te Taurapa Tūhono | New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is the government agency charged with helping New Zealand businesses to grow internationally. By supporting New Zealand businesses, we boost New Zealand's economy and reputation, and help to share what's special about New Zealand with the rest of the world.

We have an amazing permanent opportunity for someone who is passionate about leading exceptional technical solutions, challenging business processes and delivering lasting, impactful, and positive change to NZTE, including implementing and enhancing document & information management solutions using Microsoft technologies.

As the SharePoint & Power Platform Lead, you will be at the heart of our knowledge products and workflows, you will optimise efficient processes across NZTE. This includes, but not limited to:

• Serving as an escalation point for technical issues related to SharePoint and Power Platform.
• Advising on privacy, sharing, permission solutions for our document management system using SharePoint Online.
• Designing and architecting SharePoint online and Power Platform solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with best practices.
• Establishing governance policies and guidelines for SharePoint and Power Platform usage.
• Providing mentorship to up-skill support staff in managing technical requests for SharePoint / Teams / Power Automate.
• Providing leadership in identifying opportunities to leverage SharePoint and Power Platform for process automation and collaboration enhancement.

As an experienced SharePoint & Power Platform Lead, you will ideally have 5+ years' experience in designing, implementing and managing SharePoint online, Power Platform environments and other key knowledge management and information/document management systems (including Power Automate, Microsoft 365, One Drive). You will also be:

• Innovative and Experienced with proven skills in business analysis and project management, where you have utilized your continuous improvement mindset to identify and implement technical solutions. 
• An Outstanding Communicator – where you feel at ease presenting and communicating with stakeholders at all levels to lead technical change to ensure ease of understanding. You are also comfortable in mentoring and upskilling others. 
• Committed to Excellence – where you take pride in providing best practice solutions and have a passion for working with the Power Platform Suite, Microsoft SharePoint Online and key migration tools (e.g. Sharegate). 

NZTE is a truly global organisation, giving you a wonderful experience of working with different cultures with over a hundred countries as part of our everyday. We know that life is not all about work and flexible working at NZTE is standard practice. We will give you the right technology to allow you to work anywhere and balance your time. On top of this, we also offer 5 weeks annual leave so you can have that extra time in the year to enjoy what you love doing!

Career development is another huge part of working at NZTE and we will help you with your aspirations and work with you to get you there – being a learning environment that encourages adventure and experimentation, what better place to grow your career!

If you have the legal right to work in New Zealand and this role sounds like you, please apply with your cover letter and resume.  For further information, please review the position description here.