Sharepoint Architect

Job Description

Role: SharePoint Architect

Role Summary

The SharePoint Architect will design and govern secure, scalable SharePoint and Microsoft 365 solutions. The role translates business, security, compliance, integration, and migration needs into target architectures, standards, roadmaps, and reusable design patterns while providing technical leadership across delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture for SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, and related Microsoft 365 services.

• Design information architecture, including hubs, sites, navigation, taxonomy, metadata, content types, search, permissions, and content lifecycle.

• Establish governance and security standards for provisioning, ownership, external sharing, access, retention, records management, data loss prevention, and compliance.

• Lead architecture for on-premises-to-cloud, tenant-to-tenant, file-share, and legacy-platform migrations, including assessment, tooling, mapping, validation, cutover, and stabilization.

• Design modern solutions and integrations using SharePoint Framework, Power Platform, Microsoft Graph, APIs, Azure services, and supported Microsoft 365 extensibility models.

• Define modernization strategies for classic sites, legacy workflows, forms, customizations, and unsupported integrations.

• Produce architecture documents, standards, decision records, security models, migration patterns, and operational runbooks.

• Lead design reviews, proofs of concept, technical risk assessments, and quality assurance across security, compliance, performance, accessibility, and supportability.

• Partner with business, architecture, security, engineering, vendor, and support teams; mentor technical teams and resolve complex design issues.

Key Technical Skills

• Advanced expertise in SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint Server.

• Strong knowledge of information architecture, enterprise content management, search, permissions, governance, and records management.

• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, retention, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, eDiscovery, audit, and external sharing.

• Hands-on design experience with SharePoint Framework, Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, PnP PowerShell, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and Azure integration services.

• Strong experience in SharePoint migration assessment, remediation, execution, reconciliation, troubleshooting, and tools such as ShareGate, Migration Manager, or comparable products.

• Knowledge of Azure DevOps or GitHub, continuous integration and delivery, Agile delivery, and IT service-management practices.