Sharepoint Architect

Sonata Software; New Jersey; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sonata Software in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Senior SharePoint Architect to lead end-to-end architecture for a Microsoft 365 Deal Workspace. You will ensure security, scalability, governance, and pilot rollout from day one, covering SharePoint Online, Teams, Purview, Entra ID, and Power Platform.

You will guide enterprise information architecture, permissions, and AI-enabled capabilities while collaborating with business, IT, and security stakeholders. This is a long-term contract position.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Microsoft collaboration platforms with SharePoint Online architecture experience.
• Strong governance design, metadata-driven information architecture, and secure collaboration.
• Proven client-facing consulting, workshops, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define SharePoint hub and site architectures with templates, metadata, and access controls.
• Architect governance guardrails using Purview, retention, and compliance controls.
• Model entitlements with Entra ID, security groups, and conditional access.
• Lead workshops to shape taxonomy, provisioning, and adoption requirements.
• Guide pilot workspace buildout and CRM-triggered provisioning.
• Provide direction for AI-enabled deal-management capabilities.

Skills

SharePoint Online

Microsoft 365 governance

Enterprise information architecture

Tools

Purview

Power Platform

Entra ID

Microsoft Graph

Job description

Sonata Software, with over $1.2 Billion Revenue, is a leading AI-first Modernization Engineering company, powered by our unique PlatformationTM framework. Our 6400+ AI Engineers are helping enterprises transform from systems to intelligent business platforms leveraging partner ecosystem to drive speed, efficiency and growth. Our bouquet of Modernization Engineering Services with AI -first approach cuts across Cloud, Data, AI, Dynamics, Test Automation, and Managed Services.

Sonata’s AI-led modernization is enabled by a powerful suite of proprietary tools and assets. At the core is the Harmoni.AI Enterprise Platform, which includes AgentBridge-a governance and observability framework; AgentBuilder-a development toolkit for fungible agents integrated into enterprise systems; and the Agent Marketplace-an internal ecosystem for modular, reusable agents.

Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata Software has a strong global presence, including key regions US, UK, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, DACH (Germany/Switzerland) & Nordics (Finland). We are a trusted partner of Fortune 500 companies in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance; Healthcare and Lifesciences; Telecom, Media, and Technology; and Retail, Manufacturing and Distribution space.

Deep collaborations with partners like Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and Snowflake strengthen our ability to deliver cutting-edge AI solutions. Our 30+years of partnership with Microsoft, and being part of the elite Microsoft Inner Circle, places us among the top 1% of global Microsoft partners. Sonata is now among the first companies to earn the Microsoft Frontier Partner Badge Also, Sonata Software is proud to achieve AWS Premier Tier Status in the AWS Partner Network.

Role: Sharepoint Architect

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Long term contract(9+ Months)

Job Summary

Role Summary

Lead the end-to-end architecture, governance, and pilot implementation of a Microsoft 365 based Deal Workspace for investment banking. Serve as the onsite design authority for SharePoint Online, Teams, Purview, Entra ID, Power Platform, Salesforce-triggered provisioning, and future Copilot-enabled experiences. Ensure the solution is secure, scalable, governed from day one, and validated before broader rollout.

Key Responsibilities

• Define SharePoint hub, department, customer, and deal-site architecture, including standardized templates, metadata, content types, libraries, navigation, and role-based views.
• Design and implement governance guardrails including Purview information barriers, sensitivity labels, retention, audit, records management, restricted-site access, and evidenced access controls.
• Establish entitlement and permission models using Entra ID, security groups, role mapping, conditional access, and deal-record-driven access assignment.
• Lead workshops with business, IT, security, compliance, and operations stakeholders to shape taxonomy, metadata, provisioning, governance, and adoption requirements.
• Guide pilot workspace buildout, CRM-triggered provisioning, NAS parity considerations, user enablement, and value validation.
• Provide architecture direction for Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint Agents, Copilot Studio, and future AI-enabled deal-management capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in Microsoft collaboration platforms, with strong SharePoint Online architecture experience.
• Deep experience with SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft 365 governance.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale information architecture, permission models, compliance controls, metadata-driven document management, and secure collaboration platforms.
• Strong client-facing consulting, workshop facilitation, governance design, and executive communication skills.
• Financial services, capital markets, or regulated-industry experience preferred.

Preferred

• Experience implementing Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint Agents, Copilot Studio, Copilot governance, permissions-aware grounding, and AI-ready content architectures.

Why join Sonata Software?

At Sonata, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you will not be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Sonata Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by law