Senior Microsoft Certified SharePoint Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Microsoft Certified SharePoint Engineer
Duration: 9 Months Long Term
Location: Washington, DC 20005

Hybrid Onsite: 2/3 Days onsite per week from Day1.

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 On Premises platforms to SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365). This role serves as a technical authority, providing strategic guidance, hands on leadership, and best practice governance to ensure secure, scalable, and user centric cloud solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
SharePoint Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert for SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 collaboration solutions.
• Design target state 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 enterprise scale 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 clients 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

• Review, and make suggested best-practices changes to the clients MS 365 rollout roadmap

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.

Automation & 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 hands on experience with SharePoint, including enterprise scale environments.
• Proven experience leading multiple SharePoint On Premises to SharePoint Online migrations.
• Expert knowledge of SharePoint Online architecture, modern sites, hub sites, permissions, and search.
• Strong experience with PowerShell, including PnP PowerShell.
• In depth 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 business friendly language.
• Proven leadership and mentoring capabilities.
• High attention to detail with a focus on security, scalability, and sustainability.

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.