Engineer: SharePoint & .Net

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do. We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Information Technology department in our Chicago office, as an Engineer:
SharePoint & .Net.

The SharePoint & .Net Solution Engineer will be part of the Risk, Marketing & Admin Systems team which serves the Business Services groups across the firm with solutions to achieve productivity, collaboration and uniformity. We focus on In-House developed solutions, vended solutions and the SharePoint Online platform to support that. The SharePoint & .Net Solution Engineer is responsible for building, enhancing, integrating, supporting and managing the Firm’s key business solutions, primarily using SharePoint Online and Microsoft’s development stack (.Net,

ASP.Net, , SPFx, MVVM and MVC Patterns, C#). This position encompasses a mixture of project responsibility, software engineering, third party configuration/ integration and senior level support.

• Formulates and defines technical scope and objectives for solutions with minimal direction
• Designs, develops, validates and implements SharePoint based applications to solve complex problems, particularly deployed using SharePoint Online
• Maintains, enhances and refactors existing SharePoint applications to optimize the portfolio while staying up to date with other dependencies in the technical environment
• Collaborates with other engineers and administrators to overcome obstacles in a Dev Ops fashion and deliver efficiency with our solutions
• Reviews user stories and develops software solutions in short sprints with constant user involvement in an Agile minded team
• Acts as a mentor to junior team members by reviewing and providing guidance to their work
• Executes against the development priority list across the various projects and tasks within the portfolios of the Risk, Marketing & Admin Systems team
• Manages data integration between SharePoint Online applications and third party solutions using various database technologies and/or middleware including but not limited to: stored procedures, SSIS packages, DTS packages, SharePoint Lists or data integration middleware
• Participates in the maintenance and support of application business recovery plans
• Ensures internal System Catalog is properly maintained for responsible systems, applications and related integrations
• Verifies the security of third-party vendor’s applications and collaborates with them to meet security requirements
• Attends and contributes to team meetings
• Completes all administrative tasks accurately and on time (time tracking, project and task updates, trouble ticket notes, status reports, responding to email, etc.)
• Adheres to the Firm’s IT Service Delivery standards and Change Control processes
• Performs other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when the experience is directly related to the functions of the job

• Demonstrated experience in delivering SharePoint Online enterprise applications using common web technologies and…