Contract-SharePoint Online Migration Business Analyst

SoHo Dragon • New York, NY

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About The Position

This contract Business Analyst will support an enterprise-wide consolidation of content into SharePoint Online, embedded with business units in a 20-person migration program. The role owns discovery, requirements, and information architecture decisions from initial intake through business sign-off. Using a structured requirements workbook, the analyst documents where each business unit’s content currently resides—including Box, on-premises file shares, and legacy repositories—and defines how it should be structured, secured, and governed in SharePoint Online. Validated requirements serve as the build specification for the technical migration team. This is a business analysis role, not an engineering role, and success depends on facilitation, structured thinking, and clear communication with stakeholders ranging from department heads to enterprise technology leads.

The position is a full-time contract engagement at 40 hours per week, initially for six months, with potential extensions up to two years. The location is described as “[Remote / Hybrid].” The analyst serves as the primary liaison between business units and the technical migration team through cutover, coordinating schedules, communications, post-migration validation, and issue resolution.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of business analysis experience, including at least one end-to-end SharePoint or Microsoft 365 content migration as an analyst, consultant, or migration team member.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint Online information architecture, including hub, team, and communication sites; document libraries; content types and site columns; and permission inheritance.
• Understanding of Microsoft 365 governance and compliance, including sensitivity labels, retention policies, and Microsoft Purview.
• Ability to facilitate requirements workshops and translate business needs into clear, structured, testable requirements.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the confidence to manage expectations and drive decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; highly organized and able to support multiple business units concurrently against program deadlines.
• Advanced Excel skills for content inventories, requirements tracking, and status reporting.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with enterprise migration platforms such as DryvIQ or ShareGate, including interpreting pre-migration scans and permission reports.
• Experience migrating content from Box or on-premises file shares, including identifying redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) content.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry.
• Familiarity with Power Automate, Teams-connected sites, and SharePoint Advanced Management.
• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102) or its successor, Microsoft 365 and AI Services Administrator Associate (AB-650); Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate (SC-401); or IIBA CCBA or CBAP.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business units and enterprise technology leads to inventory and validate top-level content sources, including volume, ownership, activity, and business criticality.
• Lead workbook-driven requirements sessions to document content types, columns and metadata, versioning needs, workflows and automation, and integrations to preserve or redesign.
• Capture retention, sensitivity-labeling, and data loss prevention requirements aligned to Microsoft Purview, and flag regulated or confidential content for appropriate handling with compliance stakeholders.
• Review existing folder structures and access models, identify top document contributors and cross-functional consumers, and translate legacy permissions into a least-privilege SharePoint Online model using Microsoft 365 and SharePoint groups.
• Guide business units through standard site templates; recommend hub association, site and library structure, navigation, and metadata-versus-folder strategy; and confirm accountable site owners before go-live.
• Produce current-state and future-state findings, reconcile gaps with the program team, and secure formal business sign-off before migration.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between business units and the technical migration team through cutover, coordinating schedules, user communications, post-migration validation, and issue resolution.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed