How To Become A Sharepoint Architect: What It Is and Career Path

What is a sharepoint architect and how to become one

Updated January 8, 2025

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Quoted experts

Martin Gold FAIA,

Christian Hansen Ph.D.

The average sharepoint architect salary is $122,080. The most common degree is a bachelor's degree degree with an computer science major. It usually takes 2-4 years of experience to become a sharepoint architect. Sharepoint architects with a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow Fnd Applications (MCTS) certification earn more money. Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 21% and produce 284,100 job opportunities across the U.S.

What general advice would you give to a sharepoint architect?

Martin Gold FAIA

Associate Professor | Architect, University of Florida

The most widespread complaint from people in the field is that it consumes ones attention, requires long hours, and relative to other professions, such as medicine, law, accounting, or engineering, the pay is lower on a per hour basis. On the other hand, architecture is more of an art than other professions and offers opportunities for creative people to have prosperous careers. The famous French architect Le Corbusier would say, architecture is a way of life.

ScoreSharepoint ArchitectUS Average

Salary

8.2

Avg. Salary $122,080

Avg. Salary $59,228

Stability level

4.0

Growth rate 21%

Growth rate 0.3%

Diversity

4.0

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 0.17%

Asian 29.92%

Black or African American 4.45%

Hispanic or Latino 8.19%

Unknown 4.80%

White 52.47%

Gender

female 14.55%

male 85.45%

Age - 38

Race

American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%

Asian 7.00%

Black or African American 14.00%

Hispanic or Latino 19.00%

White 57.00%

Gender

female 47.00%

male 53.00%

Age - 38

Stress level

4.0

Stress level is moderate

7.1 - high

Complexity level

7.9

Complexity level is challenging

7 - challenging

Work life balance

6.6

Work life balance is good

6.4 - fair

Key steps to become a sharepoint architect

Explore sharepoint architect education requirements

Most common sharepoint architect degrees

Bachelor's

66.4 %

Master's

21.3 %

Associate

6.4 %

Start to develop specific sharepoint architect skills

Skills	Percentages
PowerShell	6.71%
JavaScript	5.32%
SQL Server	4.72%
Web Services	4.55%
CSS	4.54%

Complete relevant sharepoint architect training and internships

Accountants spend an average of 3-6 months on post-employment, on-the-job training. New sharepoint architects learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a sharepoint architect based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real sharepoint architect resumes.

Research sharepoint architect duties and responsibilities

Design the baseline SharePoint information architecture (manage metadata term store taxonomy and content type definitions) for Microsoft.com.
Act as a SharePoint platform administrator managing the overall architecture, infrastructure, user access, security and database management.
Lead a team of developers for converting InfoPath forms into Nintex form in response to Microsoft ending support for InfoPath forms.
Create custom MasterPages and CSS for better user acceptance.

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