Sharepoint Consultant

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

On-site 2 days/week in Ottawa

Job summary

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions in Ottawa is seeking a SharePoint SME for a 6-month contract to lead governance, information architecture, and tenant optimization.

The role requires 7+ years in SharePoint Online, permissions remediation at scale, and Microsoft 365 administration, with a hybrid work setup (2 days on-site weekly).

You will run discovery with departments, build a prioritized improvement roadmap, and deliver knowledge transfer to the internal technology team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SharePoint Online design, build, and admin at enterprise/tenant level.
• Demonstrated experience remediating SharePoint permissions and access control at tenant scale with stakeholder discovery.
• Microsoft certification in SharePoint Online or Microsoft 365 administration, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Responsibilities

• Review and document current SharePoint tenant state, including site inventory, ownership, permissions, and external sharing.
• Remediate permissions issues across the tenant and establish a standard access control model with named site ownership.
• Assess storage consumption, forecast cloud storage and costs, and implement archiving and retention.
• Conduct discovery sessions with departments to understand usage, content, workflows, and pain points.
• Create a prioritized roadmap of improvements and present it for approval.
• Define and implement an enterprise information architecture including document libraries, content types, and metadata standards.
• Configure and optimize enterprise search (managed properties, indexing, refiners).
• Develop wireframes and mockups for standard site layouts.
• Ensure information architecture and metadata support planned AI tooling usage.
• Identify, train, and coach department content owners.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and administrator documentation to the internal tech team.
• Establish ongoing SharePoint support and governance model.

Skills

SharePoint Online

Governance & IA

Permissions management

Microsoft 365 administration

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

AI tooling readiness

Education

Post-graduate credential in usability, UX design, information architecture, or information/records management

Tools

Power Platform

Power Automate

Balsamiq

Figma

Visio

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint Admin Center

Job description

LeverageTek is actively seeking a SharePoint SME (IM/IT & Governance) for a 6-month contract with its Ottawa-based customer.

Work Location

Hybrid

The successful candidate will be required to work 2 days per week on-site at the customer headquarters in Ottawa.

Key Tasks

• Review and document the current state of the SharePoint tenant, including site inventory, ownership, permission structures, and external sharing settings
• Remediate permissions issues across the tenant and establish a standard access control model with clear, named site ownership
• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of SharePoint storage consumption, identify growth drivers, produce a cloud storage and cost forecast, and implement the agreed archiving and retention solution
• Conduct discovery sessions with every department to understand current SharePoint usage, content, workflows, and pain points
• Consolidate findings into a prioritized roadmap of SharePoint improvements and present for approval
• Define and implement an enterprise information architecture including document library framework, content types, managed metadata standards, and navigation
• Configure and optimize enterprise search including managed properties, indexing, result sources, and refiners
• Develop wireframes and mockups for standard site and landing page layouts
• Ensure the information architecture, metadata model, and permissions structure support planned use of agentic AI tooling
• Identify, train, and coach departmental SharePoint content owners across all departments
• Deliver knowledge transfer and administrator documentation to the internal technology team
• Establish an ongoing SharePoint support and governance model

Key Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience designing, building, and administering SharePoint Online environments at the enterprise/tenant level
• Demonstrated experience remediating SharePoint permissions and access control at tenant scale, including conducting organization-wide stakeholder discovery and translating findings into an approved information architecture
• Microsoft certification in SharePoint Online or Microsoft 365 administration (e.g., Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert), or equivalent demonstrated experience

Qualifications

• Experience performing tenant-level SharePoint storage assessments and implementing archiving, retention, and site lifecycle solutions
• Experience configuring SharePoint enterprise search including managed properties and indexing
• Experience with Microsoft Teams SharePoint-backed environments
• Experience preparing a Microsoft 365 tenant for AI tooling, including metadata readiness and oversharing remediation (asset)
• Experience establishing an ongoing SharePoint support or governance service and training distributed content owners
• Post-graduate credential in usability, UX design, information architecture, or information/records management (asset)
• Proficiency with wireframing tools such as Balsamiq, Figma, or Visio (asset)
• Familiarity with Power Platform / Power Automate for document workflow and metadata automation (asset)
• Advanced English oral and written communication skills
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills across all organizational levels

Compensation

Hourly Rate Negotiable

This is an existing position vacancy.

About LeverageTek Staffing Solutions

Founded in 2003, LeverageTek provides end-to-end, cross-functional staffing solutions throughout North America. We are a trusted partner to leading private and public sector organizations and experts in talent solutions that create optimal business outcomes.

Don't let our name fool you. Our roots are in technology, but we are also a proven leader in accounting and finance, sales and marketing, human resources, supply chain, and legal talent acquisition. We offer contract and permanent staffing, executive search, talent mapping, management consultancy, and contractor payroll management.

LeverageTek is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our customers, the candidates we represent, and the diverse communities we call home. We do all of this with kindness, empathy, and respect for each other. LeverageTek is committed to employment equity and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, and marital status.

Accessibility accommodations are available upon request.

LeverageTek's specialized recruiting professionals use their expertise and our proprietary AI to accelerate connections between top talent and leading companies, while ensuring all screening and hiring decisions remain with our expert human team.