Sr Microsoft Certified SharePoint Engineer

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Job Title - Senior Microsoft Certified SharePoint Engineer

Location - Washington DC ((Hybrid Role; 2-3 days on-site per week)

Contract Duration - 12 Months

Note - The Client is looking for Locals (DC/ VA/ MD)

Position Summary

• The Senior Microsoft Certified SharePoint Engineer is responsible for leading the architecture, migration, and modernization of enterprise SharePoint environments, with a primary focus on migrating SharePoint OnPremises platforms to SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365). This role serves as a technical authority, providing strategic guidance, handson leadership, and bestpractice governance to ensure secure, scalable, and usercentric cloud solutions
  
  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

SharePoint Architecture & Technical Leadership

Required Qualifications

• Serve as the technical lead and subjectmatter expert for SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 collaboration solutions.
• Design targetstate SharePoint Online architectures aligned with Microsoft best practices and organizational standards.
• Define information architecture, governance models, permission strategies, and lifecycle management frameworks
• Migration Strategy & Delivery
• Lead Clients enterprisescale migration from SharePoint 2010/2013/2016/2019 to SharePoint Online.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of legacy environments, including custom solutions, workflows, forms, and integrations.
• Develop migration roadmaps, risk mitigation strategies, and execution plans.
• Recommend, Oversee and Execute migrations using tools from past successful migrations.
• Lead the creation of an MS 365 collaboration governance plan considering the key business goals and processes
• Provide guidance and expertise on the following:
• Best practices for settings in services, ensuring settings allow optimal interactions between services such as groups, SharePoint and Teams
• Level of access to grant users in groups, SharePoint and Teams
• Compliance settings for MS 365 groups, Teams and SharePoint collaboration
• Communications governance options for collaboration scenarios
• Organization and lifecycle governance policies and settings, including for group and team creation, naming, expiration and archiving
• Content lifecycle governance policies and settings, ensuring compliance with USAC policies
• Ensuring content is organized through automated policies to prevent content sprawl
• Advice on best practices for organizational change management and training
• Support the team in aligning MS 365 rollout with ZTA activities
• Governance, Security & Compliance:
• Establish and enforce SharePoint Online governance standards, including site provisioning, naming conventions, permissions, and retention policies.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to implement Microsoft 365 controls such as retention labels, DLP, and access governance.
• Ensure solutions comply with organizational, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• utomation & Optimization
• Optimize SharePoint Online performance, search, and usability using modern SharePoint
• design principles.
• Leverage Power Platform capabilities (Power Automate, Power Apps) to replace or enhance legacy functionality.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Mentorship
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to business stakeholders, project managers, and leadership.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior SharePoint engineers and administrators.
• Produce architectural documentation, technical standards, and operational runbooks.
• Microsoft certification in SharePoint or Microsoft 365 (e.g., Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise
• Administrator Expert or Teamwork Administrator Associate).
• Minimum of 7 years of handson experience with SharePoint, including enterprisescaleenvironments.
• Proven experience leading multiple SharePoint OnPremises to SharePoint Online migrations.
• Expert knowledge of SharePoint Online architecture, modern sites, hub sites, permissions, and search.
• Strong experience with PowerShell, including PnP PowerShell.
• Indepth understanding of Microsoft 365 integration points, including Teams, OneDrive, and Azure Active Directory.
  
Preferred Qualifications


• Experience designing and supporting hybrid SharePoint environments.
• Strong knowledge of Power Platform solutions and workflow modernization.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview compliance and information protection features.
• Experience working in large enterprise or regulated environments.
  
  
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities


• Strong architectural and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into businessfriendly language.
• Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• High attention to detail with a focus on security, scalability, and sustainability