Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Platform Architect

Excelsior College; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Excelsior College seeks a Senior Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Engineer to lead design, implementation, and governance of the Microsoft 365 platform. You will manage SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Entra ID, and related services, driving security, reliability, and scalable collaboration across the enterprise.

You will mentor staff, develop governance standards, and partner with business units to modernize processes using Microsoft technologies in a hybrid, multi-site environment.

Qualifications

• Five (5) or more years of experience administering Microsoft 365 in an enterprise environment.
• Three (3) or more years of SharePoint Online administration and solution development.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange Online, Teams administration, and OneDrive.
• Experience implementing Microsoft governance and security controls.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 architecture and cloud services.
• Demonstrated expertise in SharePoint Online administration and information architecture.
• Experience designing enterprise collaboration and document management solutions.
• Knowledge of identity management, authentication, and access control.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer Microsoft 365 services, including SharePoint Online, Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Entra ID, and related platforms.
• Manage conditional access, privileged access, RBAC, MFA, access reviews, group governance, licensing, policies, and service health.
• Monitor availability, security, performance, updates, feature releases, and operational issues across Microsoft 365.
• Design and maintain SharePoint Online sites, intranet solutions, information architecture, taxonomy, metadata, and content governance standards.
• Build document, records management, collaboration, and migration solutions in partnership with business units.
• Establish Teams lifecycle, naming, guest access, external sharing, ownership, sprawl control, and retention practices.
• Create dashboards, reports, reusable templates, workflows, documentation, and automation to reduce manual processes.
• Implement Microsoft Purview, retention, DLP, sensitivity labels, information protection, and data governance policies.
• Support identity governance, least-privilege access, security audits, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, and M365 governance standards.
• Serve as senior technical escalation for Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Teams issues.
• Mentor IT staff and deliver knowledge articles, technical documentation, user guidance, training, and workshops.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, operational procedures, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans.
• Evaluate emerging Microsoft technologies, roadmap updates, licensing changes, security recommendations, certifications, and professional development opportunities.

Skills

Microsoft 365

SharePoint Online

Teams administration

Information governance

Security controls

Identity management

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/IS

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Power Platform

Job description

Excelsior College seeks a Senior Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Engineer to lead design, implementation, and governance of the Microsoft 365 platform. You will manage SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Entra ID, and related services, driving security, reliability, and scalable collaboration across the enterprise.

You will mentor staff, develop governance standards, and partner with business units to modernize processes using Microsoft technologies in a hybrid, multi-site environment.