SharePoint Developer - Falls Church, United States - Nika Inc

Description

NIKA is hiring for a SharePoint Developer to provide management and support services to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Portfolio Business Integration (PBI) Program based out of San Antonio, TX or Falls Church, VA

Job Descriptions and Tasks

Assists with providing customer service integration support of SharePoint Portal design, modification, and integrating automated processes, reports, and unique forms of Knowledge Management (KM). Supports the DHA FE Government Lead in designing and developing web-based and SharePoint solutions that may use data sources or include applications that access general user data. Assists the DHA FE Government Lead with user management, site management, and the expertise to leverage collaborative tools, applications, and software suites available to support DHA FE KM goals. Works at the direction of the Government Lead with customers and teams to develop knowledge assessments and supporting solutions using SharePoint technologies and other collaborative tools within the organization.

• Responsible for designing and developing Modern SharePoint Online artifacts, including web parts, custom fields, custom lists, views, content types, sites and sub-sites, lists, libraries, customizations, including custom branding, navigation, search, with C#, JavaScript, jQuery, XML, HTML and CSS and Visual Studio Code
• Interfaces with customers at all levels of the enterprise to gather requirements; advises and translates requirements into web-based or SharePoint design solutions or applications; and proposes solutions to Government Leadership for approval.
• Coordinate data migrations, form, site and content creation and changes, including integration with other systems
• Participate in requirements gathering, technical design sessions, software development, peer reviews, unit and integration testing.
• Ability to troubleshoot and track end-user issues and requests.
• Provides information, documentation, analysis, and ad hoc support or training for DHA FE leadership and staff, enabling them to understand and take advantage of technologies that will benefit the organization.
• Work with IT business analysts, subject matter experts, and government stakeholders to solicit and analyze business requirements and desired results.
• Assists in developing collaboration tools SharePoint built-in functions.
• Maps workflow processes and build functions within SharePoint site to gain efficiencies in horizontal and vertical communications.
• Maintains a system status report which tracks system issues, current action items and requests for system changes in functionality.
• Crafts and fine tunes the user interface (UI) of developed websites and continually improve user experience (UX).
• Ensures products work across platforms and devices using cross compatibility tools.
• Be aware of the out of Box tools available to SharePoint developers.
• Customizes DHA FE SharePoint and/or equivalent sites' templates and develop new templates as needed.
• Builds workflow and collaboration applications using various (DHA) SharePoint sites.
• Assists the Government lead with development of a trouble ticket system to receive customer/stakeholder inquiries. Manages the trouble ticket system to include processing, tracking, and closing trouble tickets, creating performance metric reports, and updating documentation as requested.
• Enforce site standards, including security policies, to ensure the governance policies and processes are maintained.
• Provides responsive design solutions to help build optimal user experience.
• Continually improves, updates, and maintains existing web pages.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with team members and leadership to ensure the implementation of their ideas.
• Implements feedback from other designers and team members to improve design.
• Communicates continually with the senior team to understand requirements of a project and to make sure that the work done meets such requirements.
• Participates in various design projects from concept to completion.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years SharePoint client-side development experience using JavaScript frameworks/libraries and other relevant front-end web technologies.
• Extensive experience of HTML, CSS, XSLT and Master Pages to manipulate look and feel of SharePoint sites and deliver a user-friendly experience to the client.
• Knowledge and understanding of SharePoint technologies regarding Database interaction and control, SharePoint administration, and file structure/control, to include but not limited to metadata controls, record center management, workflow management, IM/KM policy development and enforcement, user/group management, site and document library management, widget management and design, and site customizations, database backend/frontend design and management.
• Knowledge of IT concepts, principles, methods, and practices to develop, implement, and maintain systems and services, assess the effectiveness of current systems and services, evaluate the feasibility of new systems and services, and provide advice and guidance on complex issues.
• Extensive experience implementing solutions using SharePoint content types, lists, columns, web parts, features, page layouts, managed metadata keywords and other enterprise management features to provide collaboration solutions.
• Extensive experience using InfoPath and SharePoint designer to develop workflows and data view web parts.
• Excellent knowledge of SharePoint data migration using built-in or 3rd party tools e.g., Metalogix Content Matrix.
• Skill in communicating ideas, concepts, methods, analyses, evaluations, and recommendations in a clear, logical, and convincing manner, either by oral or written means of communication to both technical and management groups with equal facility and clarity.
• Skill in both oral and written communications to manage projects, provide training and assistance, provide technical advisory services, and prepare correspondence for web applications.
• Knowledge of higher echelon and DHA IT standards, policies, and procedures to advise users, carry out projects and ensure compliance with IT standards.
• Ability to critically examine, evaluate, and problem-solve.
• Ability to deliver products on time, on schedule, within budget. Flexibility and ability to adapt to rapidly changing and often time-constrained environment.
• Experience researching and writing excellent documentation and examples for technical personnel.
• Ability to acquire skills/capabilities necessary to meet growing needs/demands of systems/software/hardware.

Preferred Skills

• Security +
• Experience developing PowerShell scripts as needed.

NIKA provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, NIKA takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.