SharePoint Migration Project Lead (6-Month Contract)

1st Locate UK Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Family leave

Simply Health Rewards Package

Annual Bonus Scheme

Job summary

First Locate is seeking an IT Project Delivery Specialist in Leeds to drive the migration of business files and shared drives to Microsoft SharePoint, followed by decommissioning legacy servers. The role requires collaborating with the Project Manager, internal IT teams and external partners to ensure smooth delivery and adoption with minimal disruption.

You will coordinate workstreams, manage risks, and engage business stakeholders to support new ways of working within a fixed-term engagement.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience delivering IT migration or infrastructure transformation projects.
• Experience coordinating migrations from on-premises file servers or shared network drives to SharePoint Online.
• Experience supporting server decommissioning or infrastructure rationalisation projects.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, including access permissions and user adoption.
• Proven ability to coordinate internal technical teams and external IT suppliers to deliver project outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing project plans, risks, issues, dependencies, testing and implementation readiness.
• Knowledge of PRINCE2 or Agile project management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Manager in planning, coordinating and delivering key IT projects.
• Coordinate end-to-end migration to Microsoft SharePoint and decommission legacy servers after migration.
• Engage stakeholders to understand requirements and manage change adoption.
• Ensure testing, validation and governance documentation are completed before go-live.
• Maintain project plans, risks, issues and progress reporting for governance.

Skills

Project coordination

SharePoint

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Microsoft 365

Tools

SharePoint Online

MS Teams

OneDrive

Job description

First Locate is seeking an IT Project Delivery Specialist in Leeds to drive the migration of business files and shared drives to Microsoft SharePoint, followed by decommissioning legacy servers. The role requires collaborating with the Project Manager, internal IT teams and external partners to ensure smooth delivery and adoption with minimal disruption.

You will coordinate workstreams, manage risks, and engage business stakeholders to support new ways of working within a fixed-term engagement.