Microsoft 365 Architect SME

Job Description

Manages the technical solution for software releases, including ensure that development teams have appropriate designs; identifying and managing delivery risks; decomposing complex features and coordinating work across development teams. Considered an expert in web and system development. Acts as a representative of the company and project in customer presentations, technical meetings, and design reviews.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level guidance on Microsoft Active Directory/Entra, Teams, SharePoint, Exchange Online, Power Platform, and related M365 services.


• Architect, design, and implement SharePoint-based solutions that align with business requirements and enhance productivity and collaboration.


• Develop and implement strategies for integrating SharePoint with other systems and applications in the enterprise


• Develop collaborative capabilities to enable sharing of information and knowledge using M365 Power Applications (Apps) to extend SharePoint capabilities and create custom applications and workflows.


• Automate Workflows, SharePoint Lists, Outlook Group Distribution Lists, and Teams channels with private channels


• Manage and maintain site Content and Structure settings, Site Hierarchy, and site collection navigation


• Establish and enforce governance policies to ensure proper usage, security, and scalability of SharePoint environments




• Provides technical analysis for overarching strategic architecture then designs, creates, and monitors the implementation of end-to-end integrated systems.


• Analyzes various system architecture, design, interfaces and API documents to document system capabilities and identify gaps.


• Communicates to team members the architectural vision for a program or project.


• Responsible for dictating design choices to software developers, including but not limited to: platforms, coding and technical levels. Experience in establishing and enforcing standards and practices.


• Oversees the development team, manages the full life cycle of the software development process.


• Ensures that all systems and software development adhere to standards for programming including: user interface, configuration management, system interfaces, etc.


• Participates in the planning and development of requirements, design, program specifications, interface requirements, and input/output file layouts.


• Develops and maintains System Design Documents and provides expertise in the development of policies for standardizing systems.


• Conducts research on new technologies in the field of systems development and create and make recommendations for investing in such systems that will increase cost effectiveness and flexibility.


• Tasked with a balanced and focused development of the system and its maintenance despite requirements changes.

Minimum Qualifications

• and fluent English speaker


• Must possess current, active, DoD Secret security clearance


• Bachelor's degree with 15 years of relevant experience (additional 4 years of work experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree)


• Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert


• Microsoft Certified Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate, or, Power Platform Developer Associate


• Solid working knowledge of standard computer software (Microsoft Office business suite to include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project).

Other Job Specific Skills

• Extensive experience in taking program requirements and is able to create an architecture vision having experience in high volume and high availability networks and systems.


• Extensive software development experience and thorough knowledge of a variety of programming languages and logic.


• Ability and willingness to monitor software under development meets architecture criteria.


• Experience in technical project management.


• Extensive experience in design and development of IT architectures.


• Extensive experience in large scale design and development of distributed, stateless applications.


• Experience must include a wide range of work in creating diagrams and documentation with all components that comprise IT systems including network topology.


• Experience working with an application development team in an agile software development environment.


• Experience and knowledge of multi-tier and cross-platform architectures.


• Attention to detail, and a commitment to quality work.


• Strong communication skills.


• Experience with architecting enterprise solutions based on REST web services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure Power Platform Solution Architect Expert


• CompTIA Security+ certification

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