What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Architect - SharePoint position at Eaton?
Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a IT Architect - SharePoint.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
Job Summary
The Collaboration Team Platform Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and governance across a broad scope of Microsoft solutions. This position requires deep expertise in modern cloud-based collaboration tools as well as on-premises SharePoint infrastructure, with a strong focus on aligning platform capabilities to business needs, ensuring security and compliance, and enabling digital transformation initiatives. The architect will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, business analysts, and end users, to deliver scalable and robust solutions.
Job Responsibilities
Platform Architecture and Strategy:
Basic Qualifications:
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
- * This role can be supported remotely for a qualified candidate currently residing in the USA.
Job Summary
The Collaboration Team Platform Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and governance across a broad scope of Microsoft solutions. This position requires deep expertise in modern cloud-based collaboration tools as well as on-premises SharePoint infrastructure, with a strong focus on aligning platform capabilities to business needs, ensuring security and compliance, and enabling digital transformation initiatives. The architect will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, business analysts, and end users, to deliver scalable and robust solutions.
Job Responsibilities
Platform Architecture and Strategy:
- Develop and maintain the overall architecture and roadmap for SharePoint across M365 and SharePoint Server 2019, ensuring alignment with enterprise IT strategy.
- Advise on migration strategies between on-premises and cloud environments, including hybrid architectures.
- Conduct platform assessments to identify opportunities for modernization, automation, and process improvements.
- Design scalable, secure, and high-performing SharePoint solutions, including intranets, extranets, document management, workflow automation.
- Evaluate, design, and implement Microsoft CoPilot capabilities within SharePoint and M365 environments to enhance user productivity, automate routine tasks, and drive adoption of AI-powered features.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify high-value use cases for CoPilot and ensure responsible deployment in line with organizational policies.
- Architect integrations between SharePoint platforms and Microsoft Azure services to extend solution capabilities, enable advanced automation, and support scalable, cloud-native applications.
- Lead the implementation of complex solutions, including integrations with other M365 services (Teams, Power Platform, OneDrive), third-party tools, and legacy systems.
- Architect and support solutions that leverage Microsoft Viva modules (Connections, Insights, Topics, Learning) to enhance employee experience, knowledge management, and organizational communication.
- Define standards and best practices for site collection architecture, information architecture, metadata, and taxonomy.
- Establish and enforce governance policies for content management, access control, lifecycle management, and retention.
- Work closely with the security team to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements, including data privacy and protection.
- Monitor and manage platform performance, availability, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Ensure compliance with requirements for handling controlled data, including GCCH (Government Community Cloud High), ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), and CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information).
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and training to IT staff and power users.
- Develop and deliver documentation, user guides, and training materials.
- Continuous Improvement and Innovation:
- Stay current with Microsoft’s SharePoint and M365 roadmap, evaluating new features and recommending adoption where appropriate.
- Advocate for process automation, low-code/no-code solutions (Power Apps, Power Automate), and modern collaboration practices."
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 5 years experience leading / Architecting large corporation IT projects with global teams.
- 3 years with SharePoint Online (M365)
- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture is essential, as the organization continues to modernize its platforms and adopt cloud-native technologies.
- Must currently reside within 50 miles of posted locations(s). Relocation is not available for this role.
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.”
- Must be able to work without sponsorship now or in the future.
- Preferred MS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, MBA.
- Previous experience with SharePoint Server 2019 (or earlier versions).
- M365 ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, Azure AD, Exchange Online) and hybrid identity solutions.
- Proficiency in PowerShell scripting, SharePoint Framework (SPFx), REST APIs, and integration with external systems.
- Knowledge of data analysis and visualization tools.
- Familiarity with software development processes and methodologies.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. This position will often work with other business analysts, project managers and business teams on a regular basis.
- Good team-oriented interpersonal skills. Assists with facilitation sessions, may require some coaching on how to lead and influence others, and to effectively interface and work with a wide variety of people.
- Good team player, self-motivated and committed with an ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Salary : $130,000 - $190,000