SharePoint Migration Engineer

Confidential Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 279,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Company in Dubai seeks an experienced SharePoint Migration Specialist to assess repositories, plan migrations, configure tools, and map metadata and permissions. You will run pilots, execute batches, monitor jobs, and remediate issues, while documenting procedures for handover.

The role requires strong English communication, 5+ years of SharePoint work, and hands-on migration experience with SPMT/ShareGate/AvePoint, plus PowerShell and Graph API proficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of overall SharePoint experience preferred.
• 3+ years of hands-on SharePoint migration experience preferred.
• Demonstrable experience executing medium-to-large document or content migration projects.
• Strong hands-on experience with SharePoint Online; Server/on-premises experience is an advantage.
• Experience with migration tools such as SPMT, ShareGate, AvePoint or equivalent is preferred.
• Experience in government, regulated, or security-sensitive environments is an advantage.
• Microsoft certifications are an advantage.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Professional English communication skills.
• Hands-on technical problem solving and independent execution.
• Attention to detail and disciplined exception handling.
• Strong stakeholder communication and coordination skills.
• Ability to document work clearly and transfer knowledge effectively.
• Ability to work within client security, confidentiality, and data-handling requirements.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing SharePoint source repositories, including document volumes, formats, folder structures, metadata, permissions, and content organization.
• Identify migration issues such as duplicates, data-quality problems, inaccessible content, and other exception categories requiring client decisions.
• Provide technical input to migration planning, including batching, sequencing, and throughput considerations.
• Configure and operate SharePoint migration tools and establish source-to-target mappings for document libraries, folders, content types, metadata, and permissions.
• Configure and execute pilot migrations where required before scaling to production migration batches.
• Execute document migration batches, monitor migration jobs, investigate failures, maintain exception logs, remediate issues, and re-run corrected items.
• Configure and use Microsoft Graph, SharePoint REST, CSOM, Microsoft PnP libraries, and PowerShell to support migration activities and repetitive bulk operations.
• Automate tasks such as metadata application, permission assignment, content enumeration, reconciliation data extraction, and migration processing.
• Apply approved content types, metadata, indexing, and classification to migrated documents and configure automated metadata mapping where possible.
• Validate migrated document permissions and accessibility, including inheritance and explicit permissions, and correct issues as directed.
• Produce batch-level reconciliation outputs comparing source item counts, migrated counts, and exception counts.
• Provide day-to-day technical support for migration-related issues, including migrated content, metadata, permissions, tooling, and configuration problems.
• Work closely with client IT and business stakeholders and participate in project meetings and coordination activities as required.
• Document migration procedures, mapping configurations, exception-handling processes, and technical knowledge for handover and continuity.

Skills

SharePoint experience

Migration experience

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Independent execution

Attention to detail

English communication

Tools

SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT)

ShareGate

AvePoint

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

SharePoint REST

CSOM

PnP libraries

Job description

Confidential Company in Dubai seeks an experienced SharePoint Migration Specialist to assess repositories, plan migrations, configure tools, and map metadata and permissions. You will run pilots, execute batches, monitor jobs, and remediate issues, while documenting procedures for handover.

The role requires strong English communication, 5+ years of SharePoint work, and hands-on migration experience with SPMT/ShareGate/AvePoint, plus PowerShell and Graph API proficiency.