Senior SharePoint Designer and Administrator

About the Role

The Field Intelligence Operations Division is seeking a highly skilled Senior SharePoint Developer and Administrator to lead the design, development, administration, and maintenance of an on-premises SharePoint Server environment in a classified, air-gapped setting. This role supports a licensed SharePoint deployment serving a broad user base, focusing on custom solution development, platform engineering, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, administration, and sustainment of an on-premises SharePoint Server environment in a classified, air-gapped setting.
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain custom SharePoint solutions, components, scripts, pages, and interfaces to meet mission and business requirements.
• Administer SharePoint farms, site collections, sites, subsites, lists, libraries, content types, metadata, navigation, and search features.
• Manage permissions, access controls, inheritance, and role-based security in accordance with classified data handling and least privilege principles.
• Design and implement approved workflow and process automation solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform, application, search, permissions, access, and content management issues across the SharePoint environment.
• Coordinate SharePoint patching, upgrades, maintenance activities, and platform health monitoring with infrastructure and information assurance teams.
• Analyze user and stakeholder requirements and translate them into secure, scalable, and supportable technical solutions.
• Establish and maintain governance for site architecture, content organization, configuration management, and lifecycle controls.
• Comply with the system ATO, applicable STIGs, and approved security and change management requirements.
• Lead platform modernization and continuous improvement efforts to enhance usability, performance, maintainability, and security.
• Collaborate with system administrators, network engineers, information assurance personnel, and leadership to support mission requirements.

Qualifications

• BS degree in a related technical field and at least 8 years of SharePoint development and administration experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, or an active DOE Q clearance.

Skills

• Experience developing SharePoint-based solutions, workflows, and site features to support operational requirements.
• Experience managing permissions, content, site structure, troubleshooting, and user support within SharePoint.
• Experience applying automation, scripting, or workflow tools to improve efficiency and support reliable, repeatable processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or maturing a new SharePoint collaboration environment from the ground up.
• Experience working directly with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate needs into effective solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to succeed in an evolving environment with changing priorities, emerging processes, and significant opportunity to shape the platform.
• Experience supporting user adoption, governance, documentation, and process improvement for an enterprise collaboration tool.
• Experience building workflow and process automation solutions in partnership with customers and stakeholders to improve operations and user experience.

Special Requirements

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Q clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility from the Department of Energy. It is a Workplace Substance Abuse (WSAP) testing designated position, requiring passing a pre-placement drug test and participation in random drug and polygraph testing.

About ORNL

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our team of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals works to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges. ORNL offers competitive pay, benefits, and amenities, including medical and retirement plans, flexible work hours, on-site facilities, and programs supporting well-being, professional development, and work-life balance.