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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Need a consultant for SharePoint Solutions Architect / Engineer

Job Title: SharePoint Solutions Architect / Engineer

Location: Downtown Chicago,IL

Job Type:Contract
Duration: 12 + months

Job Description:

SharePoint Solutions Architect/Engineer is responsible with all aspects of MOSS 2010 design, architect, installation, administration, configuration, maintaining and troubleshooting the Northern Trust SharePoint environment.

The SharePoint Solutions Architect will support all the components of the SharePoint environment including typical system administrative activities such as server administration tasks, monitoring site performance and server event logs, ensuring disaster recovery plan, creation of user training, back-up, restore, performance analysis, and issue resolution.

The Solutions Architect will also assist in the design architecture, availability, reliability, and security of SharePoint environments.

Additional Responsibilities

Technical advisor to business on what SharePoint can offer out of box – diagnose and map business requirements.

Recommend project approaches and submit time and cost estimates.

Lead, plan and manage business / solution design, configuration and implementation.

Document what constitutes custom development.

Document custom development systems development lifecycle.

Document SharePoint implementation.

Architect Enterprise Search capability.

Design farm with licensing restrictions and future upgrades in mind.

Document production data conversion plans, identify risk and create mitigation solutions

Experience and Education:

Provides SME knowledge on installation and configuration of SharePoint Servers
Implementation and support of Web Front End, Database, and application and search servers
Administer, maintain and manage the SharePoint farms and databases
Collaborate with infrastructure and DBA groups on back-up and disaster recovery tasks
Perform SharePoint security audits and manage security for all sites and sub sites
Accountable for the SharePoint (internal and external) Infrastructure
Accountable for following the project management/ lifecycle development processes and procedures
Provides leadership and expert knowledge in solving complex technical and business issues in regards to SharePoint
Participates in conducting project assessments as it relates to SharePoint
Assist with server builds and troubleshooting of operating system problems
Facilitates knowledge sharing across the organization
Strong understanding of SharePoint 2010 Farm Architectures
Undergraduate or Graduate degree preferred in any of the following disciplines: Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or Other Technology Fields

Experience Required:

Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010
Complete understanding of Office 2010, OCS and Exchange Server
Extensive knowledge of SharePoint Central Administration, Services, IIS, Web Parts, and site collection settings
Experience with load balanced MOSS server set-up and database servers
Must be familiar with MOSS forms-based authentication functionality and configuration for Extranet access to the platform
Experience with security set-up in a MOSS environment
Experience with configuring SharePoint Search and Federated Search
Ability to administer SharePoint 2010 to include installing and configuring large web farm topology
Ability to deploy SharePoint Solutions, Web Parts, and ApplicationsDemonstrateability maintaining SQL database solutions
Exposure to Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery planning, and ITIL is a plus
Project Management skills including Work-planning, Estimating, Meeting Facilitation, Issue Resolution and proficiency with MS Project and MS Office Suite.
Experience with process and quality management.
Ability to manage detailed analysis of business problems and technical environments
Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Strong oral and written communication skills
Strong teamwork and collaboration skills
A minimum of 3 years experience directly related to design and architecting mult-farm SharePoint environments and administrating complex (internal and external) SharePoint SharePoint server farms
Need to stay very current with SharePoint industry best practices and trends at all times.
You need a strong understanding of heterogeneous systems environment sufficient enough to recommend best practices for integration with SharePoint
You need to communicate daily with Project Managers, Architects and other engineers on implementation and support issues, as well as on future of the platform needs.
The ability to communicate well is essential as you are effectively guiding the SharePoint teams.
Must have strong leadership skills and mentor and empower your support teams.
You will communicate with top management so need to be professional and articulate at all times.