Sharepoint Architect
Ascendra is comprised of talented professionals who are dedicated to building genuine client relationships, while ensuring that team members meet their maximum potential. Accordingly, we seek to recruit and retain the best and brightest consultants in the industry. Ascendra provides its employees with rewarding positions, professional work environments, job flexibility and competitive benefits. We are committed to fostering and maintaining open lines of communication between our managers, consultants and clients.
Overview:
Ascendra is expanding its SharePoint offerings to meet customer demand. We are currently looking for a SharePoint Architect to design solutions and provide guidance to our customers as well as architect Ascendra’s custom SharePoint solutions. This is a challenging position that will share time between multiple client engagements in the Washington DC Metro Area and at Ascendra Headquarters in Reston, VA. Ascendra offers competitive compensation and benefits.
Requirements:
•Minimum ten(10) years of related IT work experience
•Five(5)+ years of SharePoint architecture and technical leadership on Federal and corporate initiatives
•Strong knowledge of SharePoint architectural design, out of the box functionality, server installation and configuration, integration, and project management.
•Two(2)+ years development experience using .NET Framework, C#, ASP.Net, and XML
•In depth understanding of the capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and SharePoint Designer 2007/2010
•Experience with portal design and development, enterprise content management, search (including FAST), business process automation, and social computing
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•MOSS 2007/2010 Training and Certification
•Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Note: Requirements are based on US Government Agency contracts which require US Citizenship
Location: Multiple locations in the Metro Washington DC area, Ascendra is based in Reston, VA
Responsibilities:
•Design, architect, implement, and integrate SharePoint 2007/2010 solutions across a variety of clients, including private sector and Federal Government.
•Develop SharePoint solutions using the appropriate tools (ASP.Net, C#, WCF, SOA, etc.)
•Participate in the design, development, customization and integration efforts for enterprise solutions involving Collaboration, Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Automation, Business Intelligence, and Forms development
•Facilitate architecture design sessions and requirements gathering
•Work with end users to gather, define, and prioritize functional system requirements and acceptance criteria based on business needs
•Develop use cases and test models to capture functional system requirements
•Document architecture, systems requirements, workflows and business processes
•Act as liaison to stakeholders to communicate and validate system requirements and identify and resolve issues