Senior ECM Migration Lead: OpenText to SharePoint (Remote)

Covenant HR LLC; Georgia; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Covenant HR LLC is seeking a Senior ECM Migration Consultant for a leading cybersecurity and technology consulting organization. The role is primarily remote in the U.S.

with potential onsite in Atlanta, GA, and is a 24-week contract (40 hours/week). You will lead OpenText Extended ECM and Windows file share migrations to SharePoint Online, design metadata mappings, validate data integrity, and ensure governance and Purview compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise content management experience with OpenText Extended ECM.
• 3+ years delivering OpenText migrations and 3 completed migration projects.
• Deep knowledge of Content Server, metadata, version histories, and permissions.
• Experience migrating OpenText content into SharePoint Online with proper architecture.
• Experience migrating Windows file shares and managing NTFS permissions.
• PowerShell scripting, metadata mapping, permission validation, and audit-ready reconciliation.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Purview, retention policies, and regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead source-side migration activities for a large-scale enterprise content management modernization initiative, transitioning OpenText Extended ECM and Windows file shares into SharePoint Online.
• Conduct comprehensive discovery and inventory of existing content repositories, including documents, metadata, permissions, business workspaces, and version histories.
• Design and implement metadata mapping strategies and migration crosswalks to ensure accurate content classification and preservation of critical business information.
• Evaluate and leverage enterprise migration tools to support efficient, secure, and scalable content extraction and migration.
• Develop and execute pilot migrations and production migration waves, addressing technical dependencies, migration constraints, and potential risks.
• Validate migrated content through checksum comparisons, metadata reconciliation, permission verification, and data integrity testing.
• Identify and remediate complex migration challenges, including broken permission inheritance, orphaned workspaces, obsolete content, excessive access, and long folder paths.
• Collaborate with SharePoint Online architects and security teams to align migrated content with appropriate information architecture, access controls, and governance requirements.
• Support Microsoft Purview compliance initiatives, including retention policies, records management, and sensitive information protection.
• Ensure migration processes minimize security risks, unauthorized access, and potential oversharing within Microsoft 365 environments.
• Maintain detailed migration documentation, exception logs, reconciliation reports, and audit-ready evidence throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work closely with our client's cloud consulting leadership and broader migration delivery team through discovery, design, execution, testing, cutover, and project closure.

Skills

OpenText ECM Migration

SharePoint Online Migration

Windows File Shares

NTFS Permissions

PowerShell Scripting

Compliance & Auditing

Purview Compliance

Proventeq

AvePoint

Xillio

Tools

Proventeq

AvePoint

Xillio

Job description

Covenant HR LLC is seeking a Senior ECM Migration Consultant for a leading cybersecurity and technology consulting organization. The role is primarily remote in the U.S.

with potential onsite in Atlanta, GA, and is a 24-week contract (40 hours/week). You will lead OpenText Extended ECM and Windows file share migrations to SharePoint Online, design metadata mappings, validate data integrity, and ensure governance and Purview compliance.