SharePoint Developer, Chicago (no travel required)

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SharePoint Developer, Chicago (no travel required)(Job Number:16658)

Description

If you're searching for an environment full of challenges and collaborative colleagues, Avanade may be the employer for you! We have a dedicated team of employees that are consistently striving toward a goal of continuous growth and learning in the ever-changing world of technology. We offer excellent benefit programs, challenging opportunities, an expanding shelf of awards, outstanding company growth, and an overall great place to work! Sounds like an amazing place to be, right? If so, send us your information! Our development team is a top notch group and we're looking for some extra talent to join us as we continue to grow!

Avanade is the premier global system integrator for the Microsoft platform. Avanade Technology Solutions (ATS) is a geographically-based workforce within Avanade that provides Application Development, Application Maintenance, and Infrastructure Operations services to a variety of clients utilizing the broad spectrum of Microsoft-based technologies and tools. ATS resources may work in a development center-based model or at our client's locations. In either scenario, ATS has created a shared culture with a proven high level of employee satisfaction.

A SharePoint Developer participates in the functional and technical design, development, and testing of Portal, ECM, and Collaboration solutions to meet business requirements. A SharePoint Developer applies functional knowledge and technical expertise to help optimize solutions through knowledge of configuration changes and customization best practices to minimize maintenance and support requirements while optimizing performance and delivered business value.

Responsibilities:

- Develop SharePoint components (web parts, application pages, page layouts, etc.) for enterprise scale Portal, ECM, and Collaboration solutions

- Develop customizations for branded solutions including master pages, CSS style definitions, templates, and themes

- Participate in the creation, execution and documentation of functional and automated tests necessary to ensure that delivered solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements

- Identify where configuration changes can be made to utilize "Out of the Box" functionality in lieu of unnecessary code customizations

- Assist in planning, designing, and developing Solution and Feature packages to ensure successful deployment of customizations while maintaining the integrity of the SharePoint environment and upgrade path

- Assist in the development of technical specifications to meet solution functional and non-functional requirements

Qualifications

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

Qualified candidates should possess:
- 1+ year of technology consulting

- 2 to 4+ years as a programmer

- Deep Microsoft platform skills

- Full software development lifecycle experience on large scale, scalable applications

- 2+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following:

- SharePoint web parts development

- SharePoint solution packaging

- Business Connectivity Services

- Service Oriented Architecture

- .NET Framework (C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net)

- Web content management

- QA and testing procedures

- SQL Server

- 2+ years demonstrated strong knowledge and proficiency in the following development methodologies:

- Object oriented development

- Component based development

- Design patterns

- Design for reuse

- 2+ 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 and Deployment

- User interface design

- 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

- Strong customer service skills

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

Preferred Requirements:

- Microsoft certification(s)

- Functional Microsoft technology knowledge of the following:

- SharePoint 2010

Avanade® 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:United States-Illinois-Chicago
Other Locations: United States-California-San Francisco
Travel:No -
Job Type: Standard
Region:- AGDN - ATS
Job: Sharepoint
Capability Group: Con/Sol - Application & Integration

LOC:USA