LeverageTek is actively seeking a SharePoint SME (IM/IT & Governance) for a 6-month contract with its Ottawa-based customer.
Work Location
Hybrid
The successful candidate will be required to work 2 days per week on-site at the customer headquarters in Ottawa.
Key Tasks
- Review and document the current state of the SharePoint tenant, including site inventory, ownership, permission structures, and external sharing settings
- Remediate permissions issues across the tenant and establish a standard access control model with clear, named site ownership
- Conduct a comprehensive assessment of SharePoint storage consumption, identify growth drivers, produce a cloud storage and cost forecast, and implement the agreed archiving and retention solution
- Conduct discovery sessions with every department to understand current SharePoint usage, content, workflows, and pain points
- Consolidate findings into a prioritized roadmap of SharePoint improvements and present for approval
- Define and implement an enterprise information architecture including document library framework, content types, managed metadata standards, and navigation
- Configure and optimize enterprise search including managed properties, indexing, result sources, and refiners
- Develop wireframes and mockups for standard site and landing page layouts
- Ensure the information architecture, metadata model, and permissions structure support planned use of agentic AI tooling
- Identify, train, and coach departmental SharePoint content owners across all departments
- Deliver knowledge transfer and administrator documentation to the internal technology team
- Establish an ongoing SharePoint support and governance model
Key Qualifications
- 7+ years of progressive experience designing, building, and administering SharePoint Online environments at the enterprise/tenant level
- Demonstrated experience remediating SharePoint permissions and access control at tenant scale, including conducting organization-wide stakeholder discovery and translating findings into an approved information architecture
- Microsoft certification in SharePoint Online or Microsoft 365 administration (e.g., Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert), or equivalent demonstrated experience
Qualifications
- Experience performing tenant-level SharePoint storage assessments and implementing archiving, retention, and site lifecycle solutions
- Experience configuring SharePoint enterprise search including managed properties and indexing
- Experience with Microsoft Teams SharePoint-backed environments
- Experience preparing a Microsoft 365 tenant for AI tooling, including metadata readiness and oversharing remediation (asset)
- Experience establishing an ongoing SharePoint support or governance service and training distributed content owners
- Post-graduate credential in usability, UX design, information architecture, or information/records management (asset)
- Proficiency with wireframing tools such as Balsamiq, Figma, or Visio (asset)
- Familiarity with Power Platform / Power Automate for document workflow and metadata automation (asset)
- Advanced English oral and written communication skills
- Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills across all organizational levels
Compensation
Hourly Rate Negotiable
This is an existing position vacancy.
About LeverageTek Staffing Solutions
Founded in 2003, LeverageTek provides end-to-end, cross-functional staffing solutions throughout North America. We are a trusted partner to leading private and public sector organizations and experts in talent solutions that create optimal business outcomes.
Don't let our name fool you. Our roots are in technology, but we are also a proven leader in accounting and finance, sales and marketing, human resources, supply chain, and legal talent acquisition. We offer contract and permanent staffing, executive search, talent mapping, management consultancy, and contractor payroll management.
LeverageTek is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our customers, the candidates we represent, and the diverse communities we call home. We do all of this with kindness, empathy, and respect for each other. LeverageTek is committed to employment equity and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, and marital status.
Accessibility accommodations are available upon request.
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