Contract Business Analyst – SharePoint Online Migration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Assist in the comprehensive consolidation of content into SharePoint Online across the enterprise.

• Become part of a 20-member migration initiative as a business analyst integrated within various business units.

• Take ownership of discovery, requirements gathering, and information architecture decisions from the initial intake to business approval.

• Inventory and assess content sources across Box, on-premises file shares, and legacy repositories, considering volume, ownership, activity, and business significance.

• Lead workbook-driven sessions to document content types, metadata, versioning, workflows, automation, and integrations.

• Capture requirements for retention, sensitivity labeling, and data loss prevention in alignment with Microsoft Purview.

• Identify regulated or confidential content for proper compliance management.

• Analyze existing folder structures and access models, translating legacy permissions into a least-privilege SharePoint Online framework.

• Provide guidance on site templates, hub associations, site and library structures, navigation, metadata versus folder strategies, and responsible site ownership.

• Generate current-state and future-state assessments, identify gaps, and obtain formal business sign-off.

• Act as the main liaison between business units and the technical migration team during the cutover process.

• Manage schedules, user communications, post-migration validation, and issue resolution.

• Deliver validated requirements to serve as the build specification for the technical migration team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of business analysis experience, including at least one full-cycle SharePoint or Microsoft 365 content migration.

• Strong understanding of SharePoint Online information architecture, encompassing hub, team, and communication sites; document libraries; content types and site columns; and permission inheritance.

• Knowledge of Microsoft 365 governance and compliance, including sensitivity labels, retention policies, and Microsoft Purview.

• Demonstrated ability to facilitate requirements workshops and convert business needs into clear, structured, testable requirements.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities, with a proven track record of managing expectations and influencing decisions with senior stakeholders.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities; highly organized and able to support multiple business units simultaneously against program timelines.

• Advanced Excel proficiency for content inventories, requirements tracking, and status reporting.

• Preferred: experience with enterprise migration platforms such as DryvIQ or ShareGate, including the ability to interpret pre-migration scans and permission reports.

• Preferred: experience in migrating content from Box or on-premises file shares, including the identification of redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) content.

• Preferred: experience in financial services or another regulated industry.

• Preferred: familiarity with Power Automate, Teams-connected sites, and SharePoint Advanced Management.

• Preferred: relevant certifications such as MS-102/AB-650, SC-401, CCBA, or CBAP.

🏝️ Benefits

• Initial 6-month contract term with the possibility of extensions up to 2 years.

• Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week.