Sharepoint/O365 Engineer at Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC in Tampa, Florida

Job Description:

POSITION: Sharepoint/O365 Engineer

REPORTS TO: Director of Application Development

DEPARTMENT: Alvarez and Marsal Information Technology

BASIC FUNCTION:

The Senior Microsoft Engineer role provides on-going and strategic development tasks for Alvarez and Marsal SharePoint application including SharePoint Online. The candidate will be providing technical leadership on the technical design of the application. This person will lead the effort in upgrading A&M in house SharePoint environment to SharePoint Online. This lead role will also provide technical guidance to level 1 support team as well as providing training to A&M users. The individual will also assist in managing 3rd party technical support, including tasks as attending status meetings, ensure 3rd party providing ticket resolving matrices, and evaluate/ensuring the 3rd party ability to complete project. He/she participates in creation of technical specifications and contributes to project planning activities. This role is responsible for overall implementation of best-in-class application solutions. The position involves creating technical specs, technical solutions and development efforts for small to midsize projects. For project oriented development the developer must work as part of a larger team to understand and implement specifications, communicate technical issues, and actively participate in functional, technical and code reviews.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Microsoft Engineer has one or more of the following responsibilities:

Software Development

• Act as Level 2 support in resolving SharePoint tickets. Evaluate ticket complexity and determine if 3rd party support can assist


• Lead MS server patching efforts for SharePoint; including other application development team servers


• Liaison with 3rd party SharePoint support team in ticket resolution and project development tasks; including reviewing/verifying technical architecture and solution


• Act as SME on how A&M can further incorporate other MS 360 products


• Lead SharePoint Migration effort from in-house hosting to Azure Cloud


• Provide knowledge transfer to 3rd party vendor, internal help desk team and provide training material to users


• Experience in leading multiple SharePoint projects simultaneously, demonstrate the ability to lead a technical/consulting team within a project and meet deadlines.


• Ability to research and develop comprehensive architectural solutions across multiple IT disciplines.


• Provide technical leadership to the project/consulting team. Strong knowledge of SDLC.


• Able to execute performance tuning at the application code level and server level.


• Introduce technical best practices best practiced and provide technical mentoring to developers, 3rd party team, and help desk


• Conduct code reviews and design reviews; validate technical approaches of other team member and 3rd party vendor.


• Ability to provide technical development plan and project estimations.


• Able to keep pace with the rapid change in MS products that can be utilize by A&M


• Must have experience is using Microsoft flow, Intex and or Sharegate.
  
  

• Contribute to writing of technical specifications


• Update training material and technical documentation

Project Planning

• Provide level-of-effort estimates for projects and maintenance tasks across functional teams


• Refine technical estimates based on approved functional and technical specification

Quality Assurance

• Able to create QA/testing strategy including test scripts and perform QA testing


• Work with UAT teams to ensure that work products meet desired objectives


• Review and provide test case feedback

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with delivery team regarding maintenance and projects


• Coordinate maintenance and project releases


• Provide production support (on-call)


• Follow escalation procedures when required


• Collaborate with application support team for application code reviews


• Collaborate with infrastructure on site performance issues


• Understand and integrate third party applications

JOB-RELATED QUALIFICATION STANDARDS:

• Candidate must be able to develop efficient, maintainable code under the standards set forth by the technology team


• Proficiency in technical and process problem solving, as well as root analysis


• Candidate must also manage timely, effective development tasks, through collaboration with technical lead and project liaison, and effectively communicating development status as requested and required


• Candidate must have demonstrated ability to create technical design and fully understand software development lifecycle (SDLC)


• Candidate must be able to collaborate on implementation solutions across functional teams


• Demonstrate ability to handle and prioritize site initiatives


• Ability to communicate technical solutions to non-technical audience


• Develop and effectively communicate project status/solution using such tools as project plans and Visio diagrams


• Candidate must have demonstrated experience in providing excellent customer service, including (but not limited to):
  
  
  • Successful management of client relationships
  
  
  • Proficiency in written and verbal communications
  
  
  
  

Education:

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong technical understanding of SharePoint architecture


• SharePoint system administration and development


• MS SQL


• Understand client server technology, HTML, CSS, JavaScript


• Strong verbal and written communication skills


• Ability to interact with individuals on all levels

Work Experience:

• 8+ years' work experience in application development


• Experience in creating technical design prior to development

Other Requirements:

• Must be customer service-oriented; able to work independently


• Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel, both in verbal and written modes; able to pay close attention to detail and understand written and verbal instructions


• Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively


• Must be able to work well under time constraints


• Must be able to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities, communicating changes in scope and schedule to all parties concerned


• Must be able to work flexible hours, including hours beyond the normal schedule when necessary


• Must be able to maintain confidentiality

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work-guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity-are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity and we foster inclusiveness. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.