Engineer: SharePoint & .Net

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Information Technology department in our Chicago office, as an Engineer: SharePoint & .Net.

The SharePoint & .Net Solution Engineer will be part of the Risk, Marketing & Admin Systems team which serves the Business Services groups across the firm with solutions to achieve productivity, collaboration and uniformity. We focus on In-House developed solutions, vended solutions and the SharePoint Online platform to support that.

The SharePoint & .Net Solution Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing, integrating, supporting and managing the Firm’s key business solutions, primarily using SharePoint Online and Microsoft’s development stack (.Net, ASP.Net, VB.Net, SPFx, MVVM and MVC Patterns, C#). This position encompasses a mixture of project responsibility, software engineering, third party configuration/ integration and senior level support.

Essential Functions:

• Formulates and defines technical scope and objectives for solutions with minimal direction
• Designs, develops, validates and implements SharePoint based applications to solve complex problems to solve complex problems particularly deployed using SharePoint Online
• Maintains, enhances and refactors existing SharePoint applications to optimize existing application portfolio while staying up to date with other dependencies in the technical environment
• Collaborates with other engineers and administrators to overcome obstacles in a DevOps fashion and deliver efficiency with our solutions
• Reviews user stories and develop software solutions in short sprints with constant user involvement in an Agile minded team
• Acts as a mentor to junior team members by reviewing and providing guidance to their work
• Executes against the development priority list across the various projects and tasks within the portfolios of the Risk, Marketing & Admin Systems team
• Manages data integration between SharePoint Online applications and third party solutions using various database technologies and/or middleware including but not limited to: stored procedures, SSIS packages, DTS packages, SharePoint Lists or data integration middleware
• Participates in the maintenance and support of application business recovery plans
• Ensures internal System Catalog is properly maintained for responsible systems, applications and related integrations
• Verifies the security of third-party vendor’s applications and collaborating with them to meet security requirements
• Attends and contributes to team meetings
• Completes all administrative tasks, i.e., (time tracking, project and task updates, trouble ticket notes, status reports, responding to email, etc.) accurately and on time
• Adhere to the Firm’s IT Service Delivery standards and Change Control processes
• Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives

Education/Training/Certifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when the experience has been directly related to the functions of the job

Professional Experience: 

• Demonstrated experience in delivering SharePoint Online enterprise applications using common web-compliant technologies and the SPFx framework
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of application support and administration, including patching, maintenance and log monitoring
• Demonstrated experience in building software solutions across a variety of Systems Development Life Cycles (SDLC) methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, Adhoc…)
• Experience in delivering technology in an Agile fashion by encompassing: Iterative and incremental delivery, Scrum/Kanban, direct user collaboration, feature driven development, agile testing, continuous development, etc.
• Experience in working with peer IT teams in a DevOps fashion to improve the computing experience of our Lawyers and staff around the Firm
• Proven Ability to work both independently and within a team
• Proficient in working with Windows Operating Systems (client and server), Virtual Technology, Cloud, network protocols and overall good infrastructure knowledge
• Proficient with M365 applications including SharePoint, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Onenote and Visio
• Web development certifications (e.g., MCSD, MCPD, MCTS, and MCSA) or other related certifications are highly preferred

Technical Skills: 

• 5+ years of web and SharePoint development experience with the Microsoft Stack (.Net, ASP.Net, VB.Net, SPFx, MVVM and MVC Patterns, C#) required
• 5+ years of proven experience with SQL Server 2019 and later, including SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS); must have a thorough understanding of relational database concepts and the integration of SQL databases with other applications required
• 5+ years of proven troubleshooting skills with SharePoint development technologies required
• 5+ years of experience working with Azure DevOps and/or Team Foundation Server (TFS) including: build / release engineering, pipeline, management for software web applications, test manager and test automation required
• 5 + years of experience working Microsoft IIS administration preferred
• 5+ years of experience with IntApp Integrate (or similar data integration tool e.g. Biztalk, MQ Series, Oracle Fusion, etc.) preferred
• 5+ years of experience with Power Automate or K2 BlackPearl (or similar workflow tool e.g. IntApp Flow, etc.) preferred
• 5+ years of proven development experience with various scripting languages (HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, VB Script, Python, TCL, Perl, etc.) preferred

Performance Traits: 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate effectively and in a professional manner with all levels of the Firm and outside vendors
• Ability to work in a diverse team environment and effectively support the demanding needs of the Firm
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines with shifting priorities
• Must be a self-starter with a high level of initiative
• Strong customer service skills, able to anticipate needs and exercise independent judgment
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects
• Maintains confidentiality and exercises discretion
• Exercises solid strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Comfort with ambiguity.
• Ability to ‘challenge the status quo’