In three to five sentences, please briefly describe the job’s primary purpose to the department.
Job Summary
The Senior Intranet Architect will design, develop, plan, install, configure, monitor, and maintain the Grinnell College SharePoint intranet. The successful candidate will join the Grinnell College Enterprise Systems team and have substantial knowledge of SharePoint architecture, functionality, configuration, and branding. Able to analyze information architecture and understand business requirements, the Architect will also configure and maintain organizational taxonomies, site collections, policies, and procedures; and create effective solutions for business needs. The Senior Intranet Architect will work closely with colleagues to brand, install, debug, and maintain necessary third-party software packages. Strong communication, customer service, troubleshooting, and organizational skills and the ability to complete assigned work with minimal instruction and supervision.
Position Summary Information
Select the level of education needed to successfully accomplish the essential duties of this job.
High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
If a specific degree, certification, license, or registration is necessary, please list.
University degree in the field of computer science or business administration may be advantageous.
Microsoft certification (or equivalent) valued.
Select the level of experience needed to successfully start the position and accomplish the essential duties of this job.
Five years or more
Preferred Qualifications
• Development experience with PowerShell, InfoPath, Workflow, and SharePoint Designer.
• Working knowledge of various web design/graphic design tools.
• Classic vs. claims based authentication concepts including Active Directory Federated Services.
• Knowledge of complete M365 environment, and service integrations.
• Enterprise search capabilities and proper configuration for best performance.
• Quota management and resource throttling.
• Understanding of third party solution maintenance and sandboxing.
• Roles knowledge of test and production environments in SharePoint and options for promoting from test.
• Demonstrate best practices for software upgrade and patching.
FLSA Category
Exempt
Staff/Faculty
Staff
Employment Status
Full-Time
Employment Category
Regular
Essential Staff (emergency situations)?
No
Position eligible to telework?
Position eligible for cell phone stipend?
Pay Grade
8
Number of Months to be Worked per Year
12
If other, please specify
Minimum Number of Hours to be Worked per Week
40
If other, please specify
Weekends?
Holidays?
On-Call?
Is this position currently included in the departmental budget?
Have the hours or work schedule changed since the last incumbent held it?
No Change
Describe any other changes to the position.
Has space been designated for this position?
Essential Responsibilities
List the job’s most important responsibilities. There are probably no more than six of these. Also indicate the approximate percent of time spent on each job function. (Note: Do not record how the job responsibilities are carried out.)
Essential Responsibility percentage of time needs to equal 100%
Responsibility
Oversee the SharePoint and Teams infrastructure, including user access and application deployment – taking the lead role in implementing SharePoint across the organization. Support the installation, configuration, security, operation, and maintenance of all software related to SharePoint infrastructure. Work closely with Information Security on compliance and security best practices.
Percentage Of Time
50
Responsibility
Develop, configure and maintain document libraries, enterprise lists and site collections. Perform typical system administrative activities such as site creation, backup, restoration, and issue resolution. Some user training will be required.
Percentage Of Time
20
Responsibility
Work with IT Project Managers and end users to design and develop solutions to address business needs and opportunities and propose changes that would make the SharePoint environment a more effective solution. Examine requirements documents and create technical design documents, unit test, system test and implementation plans for small to complex projects.
Percentage Of Time
20
Responsibility
Maintain current industry knowledge of development concepts, best practices and procedures for SharePoint
Percentage Of Time
10
General Responsibilities
General Responsibilities
(1) Maintain regular attendance in accordance with department policy.
(2) Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
(3) Understand and comply with the policies of the College Staff Handbook.
(4) Demonstrate commitment to customer service. Establish effective relationships with internal and external customers and respond to their needs.
(5) Perform duties as a team member in a manner supportive of department and College procedures, policies and goals.
(6) Protect confidentiality of College information.
(7) Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
(8) Communicate with others in a courteous and helpful manner.
(9) May be asked to fill positions considered essential during weather emergencies or other events requiring special staffing.
(10) Perform other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Does this job have supervisory responsibilities?
No
If yes, then check all that are supervised by this position.
Supervise Student Staff
No
If you supervise student staff, enter approximately how many and the total hours? (e.g., 2 students/XX hours)
Supervise Non-Exempt Staff
No
If you supervise non-exempt staff please enter the number.
Supervise Exempt Staff
No
If you supervise exempt staff please enter the number.
Select the level of supervision that this position provides.
Supervision Received
Select the level of supervision that this position receives from their supervisor.
Computer Operations
Please check one of the following
Utilize complex computer operations (intermediate programming, relational databases, and operating systems) and advanced features of software packages (word-processing, spreadsheet, graphics, etc.)
Travel
Please check one of the following
Minimal overnight travel (up to 10%) by land and/or air.
Essential Function Analysis
Accurate identification of essential and marginal functions and the time required is important for making a variety of personnel decisions, including recruitment, hiring, performance evaluation, discipline, training and accommodation. The analysis explains the components of the job by identifying who, what, why, how much, and when.
Essential functions are those functions that individual must be able to perform either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation. A job function may be considered essential if it meets one of the following criteria:
the position exists for performance of the function;
a limited number of employees can perform the function, and it, therefore cannot be reassigned;
the function is specialized and requires certain expertise to perform it.
Many jobs will also have marginal functions. Marginal functions are those that may be performed by the position but are not tasks critical to job success, can be completed in a number of ways by a variety of people, and are not the primary functions for which the position exists.
Mental/Cognitive Requirements
How much on-the-job time is spent in the following mental/cognitive activities? Show the amount of time by checking the appropriate boxes below.
The Senior Intranet Architect will design, develop, plan, install, configure, monitor, and maintain the Grinnell College SharePoint intranet. The successful candidate will join the Grinnell College Enterprise Systems team and have substantial knowledge of SharePoint architecture, functionality, configuration, and branding. Able to analyze information architecture and understand business requirements, the Architect will also configure and maintain organizational taxonomies, site collections, policies, and procedures; and create effective solutions for business needs. The Senior Intranet Architect will work closely with colleagues to brand, install, debug, and maintain necessary third-party software packages. Strong communication, customer service, troubleshooting, and organizational skills and the ability to complete assigned work with minimal instruction and supervision.
University degree in the field of computer science or business administration may be advantageous.
Microsoft certification (or equivalent) valued.
• Development experience with PowerShell, InfoPath, Workflow, and SharePoint Designer.
• Working knowledge of various web design/graphic design tools.
• Classic vs. claims based authentication concepts including Active Directory Federated Services.
• Knowledge of complete M365 environment, and service integrations.
• Enterprise search capabilities and proper configuration for best performance.
• Quota management and resource throttling.
• Understanding of third party solution maintenance and sandboxing.
• Roles knowledge of test and production environments in SharePoint and options for promoting from test.
• Demonstrate best practices for software upgrade and patching.
Essential Responsibility percentage of time needs to equal 100%
Oversee the SharePoint and Teams infrastructure, including user access and application deployment – taking the lead role in implementing SharePoint across the organization. Support the installation, configuration, security, operation, and maintenance of all software related to SharePoint infrastructure. Work closely with Information Security on compliance and security best practices.
Develop, configure and maintain document libraries, enterprise lists and site collections. Perform typical system administrative activities such as site creation, backup, restoration, and issue resolution. Some user training will be required.
Work with IT Project Managers and end users to design and develop solutions to address business needs and opportunities and propose changes that would make the SharePoint environment a more effective solution. Examine requirements documents and create technical design documents, unit test, system test and implementation plans for small to complex projects.
Maintain current industry knowledge of development concepts, best practices and procedures for SharePoint
(1) Maintain regular attendance in accordance with department policy.
(2) Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
(3) Understand and comply with the policies of the College Staff Handbook.
(4) Demonstrate commitment to customer service. Establish effective relationships with internal and external customers and respond to their needs.
(5) Perform duties as a team member in a manner supportive of department and College procedures, policies and goals.
(6) Protect confidentiality of College information.
(7) Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.
(8) Communicate with others in a courteous and helpful manner.
(9) May be asked to fill positions considered essential during weather emergencies or other events requiring special staffing.
(10) Perform other duties as assigned.
Essential functions are those functions that individual must be able to perform either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation. A job function may be considered essential if it meets one of the following criteria:
-
the position exists for performance of the function;
-
a limited number of employees can perform the function, and it, therefore cannot be reassigned;
-
the function is specialized and requires certain expertise to perform it.
Many jobs will also have marginal functions. Marginal functions are those that may be performed by the position but are not tasks critical to job success, can be completed in a number of ways by a variety of people, and are not the primary functions for which the position exists.This position description is vacant.
Supervisor Position Description
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