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Sharepoint Architect, Manager Montreal Job

Date: Feb 16, 2012

Location: Montreal, QC, CA

Sharepoint Architect, Manager Montreal(Job Number: 11432)

Description

At Avanade, business and technology consulting isn't just your career…it's your passion. And that means more than just working with new innovations. It means using technology to solve business problems in ways that make a real difference to you, your customers, and the world.

As a SharePoint Technical Lead Consultant, you will be responsible for the technical end-to-end design SharePoint portals. The role will design specifications, implement POCs, mentor the development team, and perform code reviews.

Minimum Requirements:

- Strong functional and technical understanding of SharePoint 2010
- Ability to work directly with the clients/business to elicit/document requirements and drive functional vision
- Experience architecting enterprise solutions using SharePoint (2007, 2010)Experience architecting and leading delivery of platform migrations (2007 -> 2010, Notes ->SP) is a definite asset
- Experience leading development teams and developing SharePoint artifacts Background and experience in C#, ASP.NET, .NET, LINQ, SQL ServerGood (inclluding WCF and WF)
- Strong understanding of AJAX, JQuery, Javascript, HTML, CSS, WebServices

Additional Responsibilities include:

Collaborating with sale representatives to assist with opportunity development through pre-sales support, responding to client opportunities and RFPs, meeting with customers to present Avanade offerings and solutions, and scoping/estimating effort;

Providing project delivery leadership, including defining project scope, deliverables, effort estimation, and implementation timelines

Designing, implementing and executing technical solutions in Microsoft and multi-vendor environments.

Gathering business requirements and translating them into IT solutions;

Leading design reviews to ensure optimum solution delivery.

Leading solution implementation and delivery;

Developing and delivering internal and external presentations to various levels.

Performing benefit analysis for IT solutions and calculating business value.

Managing diverse responsibilities, projects and assignments while maintaining a high level of quality.

Qualifications

- You will have excellent communication skills and will have hands-on experience working on component based applications in a distributed environment

- Demonstrated project experience with regard to estimates, planning and deliverables

- Proven ability to understand a customer's needs

- Experience developing technical requirements based on business imperatives

- Ability to travel 80% of the time to the customer location throughout the GTA/Downtown Toronto (potentially Canada/US)

- Strong customer service skills

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS or related field

Qualified candidates should possess:

- Strong functional and technical understanding of SharePoint 2010

- Ability to work directly with the clients/business to elicit/document requirements and drive functional vision

- Experience architecting enterprise solutions using SharePoint (2007, 2010)

- Experience delivering platform migrations (2007 -> 2010, Notes ->SP) is a definite asset

- Experience leading development teams and developing SharePoint artifacts

- Background and experience in C#, ASP.NET, .NET, LINQ

- Good understanding of AJAX, JQuery, Javascript, HTML, CSS, WebServices

- Strong communication and presentation skills in both English and French

5+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following development methodologies: - Object Oriented Development
- Component based development
- Patterns
- Design for reuse

5+ years technical lead experience in one or more of the following roles:

- Web Services Development
- Data Access Development
- Mobile Application Development
- Security
- Application integration
- Testing & Deployment
- User Interface Design

Preferred Qualifications:

Microsoft certification and functional Microsoft technology knowledge of the following:

- SharePoint
- Content Management Server
- Commerce Server
- BizTalk Server

AvanadeĀ® Is An Equal Opportunity Employer. Avanade promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, status as a protected disabled or Vietnam Era Veteran, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Primary Location: Canada-Quebec-Montreal
Travel: Yes, 75 % of the Time
Job Type: Standard
Region: Canada
Job: Application Development
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application Development

LOC:CAN