Senior Messaging & Collaboration Specialist

Job Description: Senior Messaging & Collaboration Specialist.

Years of

Experience:

10+ years

• SharePoint Administration
• IIS Server Management
• One Drive
• Microsoft 365 workloads Management
• System Design and Architecture

SharePoint Administration: Manage multiple SharePoint farms, ensuring high availability, performance optimization, and security compliance. Oversee upgrades, patches.

IIS Server Management: Administer numerous IIS hosting servers, overseeing their performance, security, and maintenance.

Jira and Confluence Consultancy: Provide administration and consultation for Jira and Confluence, ensuring these tools are optimally configured to meet the needs of various teams within the organization.

Power BI Administration and Data Visualization: Oversee Power BI server administration, develop and manage data visualization projects, ensuring accurate and effective representation of data insights.

SQL Server Management: Manage SQL Server environments, ensuring database integrity, performance, and security. Oversee database design, maintenance, and optimization.

One Drive for Business Management: Oversee the administration and management of One Drive for Business, ensuring seamless file storage, sharing, and collaboration across the organization.

Microsoft 365 Workloads Management: Extensive experience in managing Microsoft 365 workloads, including Teams, and SharePoint Online, ensuring optimal configuration, security, and integration to support organizational productivity and collaboration.

Technical Leadership: Act as a technical leader and advisor, providing guidance on system capabilities and architecture to various stakeholders, including management, IT teams, and business units.

System Design and Architecture: Develop and maintain the overarching system architecture, ensuring it meets current and future business and technology requirements.

Infrastructure Management: Ensure the consistency and maintainability of existing applications by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.

Compliance and Security: Ensure that the system architecture complies with all relevant regulations and security standards.

Technology Evaluation: Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware, and suggest integration methods to support business goals.

Project Management: Manage technical projects, setting timelines, and coordinating with internal and external teams to achieve project goals.

Product Release: Regularly review completed work and ensure that it meets the acceptance.

Documentation: Maintain and update architecture documents, ensuring they reflect the current and future state of the system architecture.

Standards and Procedures: Establish system architecture design standards, procedures, and methodologies. Promote best practices in architecture and design.

Performance Tuning: Analyze system performance and make recommendations for improvements and optimizations.

Problem-Solving: Troubleshoot technical problems quickly and efficiently to ensure a productive solution.

Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business users, project managers, and IT team to understand the business needs and translate them into technical specifications and architectural blueprints.

Backlog Management: Prioritize needs and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that it is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the team will work on next.

Vendor Communication: Serve as the point of contact for any inquiries from potential vendors and manage the communication process to ensure clarity and fairness.

Market Research: Understand the market, the client's needs, and the business environment to make sound decisions about the product's direction.

RFP Development: Write the RFP document, outlining the project objectives, scope, deliverables, timeline, budget, and evaluation criteria.

Evaluation Criteria: Establish clear criteria for how proposals will be evaluated and how a vendor will be selected.

Applications Business Continuity: Develop and maintain robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans for critical applications and systems.

Dev Ops and Automation: Lead Dev Ops initiatives using Octopus Automation, focusing on deployment automation and infrastructure operations. Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline development workflows.