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Senior Microsoft Office 365 - Power Platform - Sharepoint Online Developer

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Spektrum have a wide range of exciting opportunities in several global locations.

We are always looking to add great new talent to our team and look forward to hearing from you.

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATO’s leading agent for change: driving, facilitating, and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships, interaction and practical cooperation with partners, nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development, capability development, training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program 

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

 DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation's Director for guidance, direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed, cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities, NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO, NCIA, NSPA, NATO HQ, territorial Host Nations, and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy, political guidance, and other policy documents supporting NATO’s strategic objectives.

Role Responsibilities 

  • Build and support a tool or set of tools using Microsoft 365 applications (e.g., PowerApps) to accelerate HQ administration.
  • Initially focus on building and supporting a robust travel management tool to include TDY travel, home leave travel, children's education travel, and recruitment and separation travel. The broader scope is to include any HQ administrative process where there is a demand for digital transformation, including but not limited to human resources, business management, and legal.
  • Develop tools that facilitate travel planning, retain historical information about executed travel, and allow leadership to assess travel patterns for military, civilian, and contractor personnel.
  • Deliver a tool by the end of October 2025 to identify, standardize, and integrate HQ annual travel plans for 2026, which will act as the basis for travel requests. This tool should also integrate PDFs and checklists for travel claims.
  • The contractor shall integrate the HQ SACT travel plans into a Power Apps version f the existing travel request tool, currently implemented, using SharePoint Online and Power Automate.
  • Expand the functions of the travel portal to cover support to travel claims and adopt desk booking app support .
  • Develop a process for regularly and automatically informing management about staff travel plans.
  • The contractor shall investigate the feasibility of integrating the travel tool(s) with the NATO Financial System (FinS), which is an Oracle-based ERP system. If deemed viable and approved by NATO stakeholders, support the development and implementation of an API integration.
  • Support for human resources with staff onboarding automation and other processes. This includes: Developing a SharePoint tool for civilian oversight and management and enhancing the internal HR library organization.
  • Taking over administration and oversight of the HR workforce plan dash board and its back end, to include embedding budget information.
  • Maintaining the existing "Revalidation of allowances" PowerApps solution.
  • Support to the business management and legal with process automation.
  • Provide in-house expertise and support for ongoing development of automated solutions as required .
  • Perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to the labor category.

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Minimum of 5 years of proven professional experience in Microsoft software development/DevOps will be accepted in lieu of the degree.
  • Minimum of 3 years in the last 5 in developing solutions across the Microsoft Power Platform suite (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
  • Demonstrated experience of 3 years in the last 5 in developing and customizing SharePoint Online.
  • Demonstrated experience working on projects that require API integration.
  • Experience working within a constrained and dependencies-heavy network environment, similar to the NATO network
  • Experience in establishing or operating within a Power Platform or intelligent automation governance framework, including environment strategy, security
  • policy, public affairs, political science, or related discipline; or have attended a NATO or national military staff college (OF-3 level or higher)

 Language Proficiency

  • Advanced Proficiency in English

 Working Location

  • Norfolk, VA, USA

Working Policy

  • On-Site

Contract Duration

  • Nov 2025 – December 2026

Security Clearance

  • Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

We never know what new opportunities might be just over the horizon. If this opportunity isn't for you please feel free to send us your resume anyway and be the first to know if something suitable for your skills and experience comes up. 

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