Sharepoint Technical Lead recruitment

Summary of Department Focus:

CM and Portals Practice provide consulting and systems integration services in the areas of Portals, Content Management, Collaboration and Enterprise Search. It holds partnership with the market leading products in each of the areas and offers customer's services to consult, implement and maintain product based solutions. Key sub-practices include SharePoint, WebSphere Portal, Documentum, FileNet, Vignette and Lotus Notes. The group is around 1300 worldwide and is one of the fastest growing business within Cognizant.
Summary of Job Purpose:
Work as a SharePoint Technical Lead as part of Cognizant's SharePoint practice. Will play design, design authority and consulting roles across Cognizant customers.
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Key Accountabilities: (maximum of 10)
% of time

• Responsible for defining solution architecture leveraging SharePoint's capabilities for implementing various solutions around Portals, collaboration, content management, document management, workflows, search, forms etc 15%
• Responsible for defining high level and detailed design for applications and solutions based on SharePoint. Provide design approach and POCs to support application developers on realization of SharePoint design 40%
• Responsible for defining design, coding and deployment guidelines around SharePoint, and perform design, and code reviews of applications developed on for various projects. 20%
• Act as SharePoint consultant to help translate key business requirements to specifications and solution utilizing SharePoint 20%
• Perform infrastructure sizing and capacity planning and maintain associated sizing and capacity planning guidelines across SharePoint projects 5%

Knowledge:

• Sound understanding of SharePoint 2007 in design roles mandatory. Exposure or training to SharePoint 2010 is an added advantage
• Should have sound technical knowledge in SharePoint 2007 and .Net design patterns and frameworks including a sound understanding of SharePoint object model customization
• Knowledge of infrastructure sizing, capacity planning principles and guidelines of SharePoint and a good understanding of various farm configurations
• Sound understanding of packaging, build and release management processes and solutions around SharePoint including solutions such as TFS, VSTS and Powershell

Experience:

• Full project lifecycle experience working with SharePoint based solutions design and development roles
• Experience in SharePoint 2007 in design roles mandatory. Exposure or training to SharePoint 2010 is an added advantage
• Sound design knowledge
• Experience of development roles on Microsoft technology based web applications and web based solutions (.Net, SharePoint)
• Should have excellent communication skills and customer facing experience
• Should be capable of working with customer architecture team in defining SharePoint based application design, and lead technical discussions
• Prior experience working with globally dispersed customer and development teams

Qualifications:

A bachelors degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent. A master's degree in computer science is a good to have but not a must.
Any technical certifications from Microsoft on SharePoint 2007 or 2010 is a plus.

Skills

Engineering / Science graduates 4-7 years of experience