Sr Microsoft Certified SharePoint Engineer

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

• 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.

    Required Qualifications

    • 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