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Intrapreneurship is defined as creating from within, starting something from nothing. And it is at the heart of the people at Rightpoint. We are a values-led intrapreneurial organization. We’re driven by innovation, rooted in technology and relentlessly curious. We love the creativity involved in taking a blank screen and blinking cursor and making it something amazing. With intrapreneurship in our DNA, we’re able to move quickly to build unique, innovative customer experiences that evolve the way our clients do business. .

Are you someone who wants to create change in the way business is done? Do you want to work with inspired and like-minded intrapreneurs? Us too! We take our work very seriously, but we have fun doing it. And we’re searching for passionate, talented people to join the Rightpoint team.  

Rightpoint is the largest independent customer experience agency with technology at our core, and 350 employees across 8 U.S. offices. We create seamless digital experiences driven by insight, strategy, technology and design. Rightpoint serves more than 250 Fortune 1,000 companies with strategy, site design and development, content, CRM, commerce, BI and cloud infrastructure.  

And the industry is taking notice: 

·        Crain's Chicago Fast Fifty of “Fastest Growing Companies,” 2014 - 2017 
·        "Top 100 Workplaces in Chicago" by the Chicago Tribune, 2014-2016 
·        EY Entrepreneur of The Year® Award, Co-founders Ross Freedman & Brad Schneider: 2015 Midwest Dual Finalists  
·        One of the "Most Promising Companies in America" by Forbes in 2014 

Join Our Team // SharePoint Architect

• Lead meetings and engage with clients to:
  • Gather requirements
  • Collaborate
  • Gain insight into business objectives
  • Participate in business process analysis, document the process flow using tools like Visio, and work with the client to optimize the process from a procedural and technology standpoint.  Iterate through the process with the client to review/refine and seek sign off
  • Educate on SharePoint functionality
  • Look for and act on additional project opportunities
• Develop the technical design approach:
  • Define the relationship between the physical and logical architecture
  • Define site architecture including: site columns and content types, site/list/library structure
  • Define the technical approach to implementing functionality such as workflow, records management, pages, and web parts
  • Define the technical approach to administrative functionality such as office web apps, search, managed metadata, and security
  • Determine when and how to use custom solutions
  • Define the deployment process
• Support the team in building solutions
  • Install and Configure SharePoint
  • Install and Configure FAST Search for SharePoint
  • Configure search (content sources, scopes, managed properties)
  • Configure Managed Metadata Service
  • Install Adobe iFilter
  • Install 3rd party or custom solutions
  • Create site columns and content types
  • Configure sites, lists, and libraries
  • Implement custom master pages and page layouts
  • Configure web parts
  • Implement SharePoint Designer (or 3rd party) workflows
  • Configure and customize the search center
• Lead Solution Administration
  • Administer/maintain web applications and services in Central Administration (such as Search, User Profiles, and Managed Metadata)
  • Implement security model
  • Define and implement governance plans
  • Define and implement disaster recovery plans
• Lead Quality Assurance and Testing
  • Work with development team to ensure business requirements are met
  • Inspect application to ensure it meets the technical specification
  • Work with project lead to prioritize and resolve issues

• B.A. or B.S. (required).  Bachelor Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Management Information Systems (MIS) or related field (preferred)

• Minimum of 4-7+ in the SharePoint realm with a minimum of 2+ years of SharePoint technical lead and architecture experience on enterprise initiatives
• Must possess advanced knowledge of business workflows and have an in-depth understanding of the capabilities of Workflow Foundation, SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and SharePoint Designer
• In-depth experience with Collaboration, Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms, and/or Business Intelligence features is required
• Ability to evaluate, select and articulate product strategies across the Microsoft Office Stack
• Experience with Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services is highly preferred, as is experience with SharePoint Templates (Application Templates, Master Pages, Role-Based Templates, and the Community Kit for SharePoint)
• SharePoint knowledge should include architectural design, server installation, management and troubleshooting with a focus on planning, deploying and supporting enterprise SharePoint implementations
• Development experience with Microsoft.NET technologies is also preferred (e.g. ASP.NET, C#, XML, CSS, HTML, IIS, BizTalk Server, SQL Server, etc.)
• Knowledge of the .NET Framework and experience working in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is also preferred
• Prior team lead experience on SharePoint implementations
• An ideal candidate would have significant hands on experience with configuring and implementing:

• Lists and libraries
• Site columns and content types
• Workflows
• Search
• Web parts
• Master pages
• Page Layouts
• CSS
• XSLT
• Records retention
• Experience with 3rd party tools
• The ability to bring it all together to architect a scalable system
• Make strategic decisions around an implementation approach
• Have experience with governance policies and procedures
• Experience in administering SharePoint (at the site collection level, as well as via Central Administration)
• Know when to use out of the box/no-code solution and when to use 3rd party or custom applications

This is a full time position. For more information visit www.rightpoint.com

Rightpoint is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENTLY AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE U.S.

WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER SPONSORSHIP AT THIS TIME.

NO THIRD PARTIES PLEASE!