Senior SharePoint Developer

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a national law firm with over 500 attorneys across the United States. Founded in 1934 and headquartered in Chicago, we provide sophisticated legal counsel to clients in highly regulated industries, including insurance, financial services, healthcare, and professional services. We also offer strategic business and transactional advice to a wide range of for-profit and nonprofit organizations, including government agencies and educational institutions.

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The Senior SharePoint Online Application Developer designs, builds, and supports secure business applications that use SharePoint Online as a foundational application platform. This role focuses on SharePoint lists, libraries, metadata, permissions, content types, document-centric workflows, and Microsoft 365 integrations that enable scalable, user-friendly solutions for legal and business operations.

The developer partners with attorneys, practice groups, administrative departments, and IT teams to translate business requirements into well-governed applications using SharePoint Online, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Microsoft Graph, SPFx, and related Microsoft 365 services. The role emphasizes solution architecture, maintainability, security, information governance, automation, adoption, and continuous improvement.

• SharePoint Online Application Development: Design and build applications that use SharePoint Online as the system of record or collaboration foundation, including lists, libraries, metadata models, content types, views, document sets, lookup relationships, permissions, forms, pages, and reusable site templates.
• Power Platform Solutions: Develop Power Apps and Power Automate workflows that extend SharePoint-based business processes, including intake forms, approvals, notifications, task management, records tracking, contract lifecycle processes, and operational dashboards.
• Solution Architecture and Data Design: Create practical data models that balance SharePoint Online capabilities with Dataverse, SQL Server, or other data sources when appropriate. Define when SharePoint is the right foundation and when another platform is needed for scale, relational complexity, or transactional requirements.
• User Experience and Forms Design: Build intuitive, responsive applications and forms for attorneys and business users, using modern SharePoint pages, list forms, Power Apps, SPFx web parts, adaptive cards where appropriate, and accessibility-aware design.
• Workflow Automation: Automate business processes using Power Automate, SharePoint triggers, approvals, scheduled flows, Microsoft Graph, connectors, and secure service accounts or managed identities where applicable.
• Integration and APIs: Integrate SharePoint-based applications with Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, One Drive, iManage or other document management platforms, SQL Server, Dataverse, and third‑party services using REST APIs, Microsoft Graph, custom connectors, and secure data exchange patterns.
• Governance, Security, and Compliance: Apply Microsoft 365 and SharePoint governance practices, including permissions models, sensitivity and retention considerations, data loss prevention alignment, environment strategy, application ownership, lifecycle management, and documentation.
• Reporting and Analytics: Create Power BI reports and SharePoint dashboards that provide status, workload, compliance, contract, service, and operational visibility for IT and business stakeholders.
• Platform Administration and Support: Support SharePoint Online application sites, troubleshoot access and workflow issues, coordinate with infrastructure and security teams, monitor reliability, and help retire or modernize legacy…