Senior Messaging & Collaboration Specialist

Overview

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

• Microsoft 365 Workloads Management

Overall Experience

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