Contract-SharePoint Online Migration Business Analyst

SoHo Dragon; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

SoHo Dragon is seeking a Contract-SharePoint Online Migration Business Analyst to support enterprise-wide content consolidation into SharePoint Online. You will join a migration program, owning discovery, requirements, and information architecture decisions from intake to sign-off.

This business-analyst role emphasizes facilitation, structured thinking, and clear communication with stakeholders from department heads to enterprise technology leads.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of business analysis experience with end-to-end SharePoint or M365 migrations.
• Solid knowledge of SharePoint Online information architecture and governance.
• Ability to facilitate workshops and translate needs into structured requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Advanced Excel skills for inventories, tracking, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Discovery & Source Inventory with business units and IT leads.
• Lead requirements elicitation sessions and document metadata and workflows.
• Capture retention, sensitivity labeling and DLP requirements with Purview.
• Analyze permissions, translate to least-privilege SharePoint models.
• Guide site design, templates, hub associations, and metadata strategy.
• Produce current-state and future-state findings for sign-off.
• Serve as liaison between business units and migration team during cutover.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Communication

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Tools

DryvIQ

ShareGate

Power Automate

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Position: Contract-SharePoint Online Migration Business Analyst
Client: Global investment firm
Engagement Type: Contract
Location: [Remote / Hybrid]
Schedule & Duration: [Full-time, 40 hrs/week] | [Initial 6-month term, with potential extensions up
to 2 years]

This role supports an enterprise-wide consolidation of content into SharePoint Online. You will join a 20-person migration program as a business analystembedded with the firm's business units, owning discovery, requirements, and informationarchitecture decisions from initial intake through business sign-off. Using a structured requirements workbook, you will establish where each business unit's content lives today, across Box, on-premises file shares, and legacy repositories, and define how that content should be structured, secured, and governed in SharePoint Online. Your validated requirements become the build specification for the technical migration team.
This is a business analysis role, not an engineering role. Success depends on facilitation, structured thinking, and clear, confident communication with stakeholders ranging from department heads to
enterprise technology leads.

Key Responsibilities

• Discovery & Source Inventory: Partner with business units and their enterprise technology leads to inventory and validate top-level content sources, including volume, ownership, activity, and business criticality.
• Requirements Elicitation: Lead workbook-driven working sessions to document content types, columns and metadata, versioning needs, workflows and automation, and integrations that must be preserved or redesigned.
• Governance & Compliance: 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.
• Access & Permissions Analysis: 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 built on Microsoft 365 and SharePoint groups.
• Information Architecture & Site Design: Guide business units through the firm's standard site templates; recommend hub association, site and library structure, navigation, and metadata-versus-folder strategy; and confirm accountable site owners before go-live.
• Validation, Reporting & Sign-Off: Produce clear current-state and future-state findings, reconcile gaps with the program team, and secure formal business sign-off before migration.
• Business‑Technical Liaison: 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.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of business analysis experience, including at least one end‑to‑end SharePoint or Microsoft365 content migration, whether as the analyst, consultant, or a member of the migration team.
• Solid working knowledge of SharePoint Online information architecture: 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.
• Proven ability to facilitate requirements workshops and translate business needs into clear, structured, testable requirements.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to manage expectations and drive decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills; highly organized and able to support multiple businessunits concurrently against program deadlines.
• Advanced Excel skills for content inventories, requirements tracking, and status reporting

Preferred Qualifications

• 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)
• IIBA Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)