Senior Sharepoint Consultant

Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid, Tuesday and Wednesday on-site)
Language: Advanced written and verbal English required. French is considered an asset but is not required.
Duration: 6-month initial contract

About the Opportunity
Join a respected national organization as a SharePoint Consultant, where you'll play a pivotal role in modernizing enterprise information management and shaping the future of digital collaboration. This is an opportunity to lead an organization-wide transformation, improving governance, usability, search capabilities, and information architecture while preparing the environment for emerging AI technologies.

Working closely with technology leaders and stakeholders across multiple business units, you'll influence how information is managed, secured, and accessed across the organization. If you enjoy balancing technical expertise with stakeholder engagement and strategic planning, this project offers meaningful impact and the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy.

What's In It for You
• A high-impact enterprise transformation project where your expertise will directly influence organizational best practices.
• Exposure to executive stakeholders, enterprise architecture, governance initiatives, and emerging Microsoft AI capabilities.
• A collaborative environment that values innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Competitive contract compensation of $100 to $120/hour, depending on experience.

Your Responsibilities
• You'll assess the existing SharePoint Online environment, improving governance, permissions, storage management, and overall tenant health.
• You'll lead discovery workshops across departments to understand business needs and develop a prioritized roadmap for SharePoint improvements.
• You'll design and implement scalable information architecture, metadata standards, navigation, document libraries, and enterprise search enhancements.
• You'll recommend and implement SharePoint storage, archiving, lifecycle management, and retention strategies across Microsoft 365.
• You'll develop wireframes, templates, and governance standards while supporting departmental adoption and knowledge transfer.
• You'll help prepare the Microsoft 365 environment for AI readiness by strengthening metadata quality, permissions, and information governance.

Skills and Qualifications
• 7+ years of progressive experience designing, administering, and optimizing SharePoint Online environments within enterprise organizations.
• Strong expertise with SharePoint Online architecture, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 administration, permissions management, enterprise search, and information governance.
• Experience implementing information architecture, taxonomy, managed metadata, retention policies, storage optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience building SharePoint sites, document libraries, pages, workflows, and governance frameworks.
• Microsoft SharePoint Online or Microsoft 365 Administration certification, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with Power Platform, Power Automate, and wireframing tools such as Figma, Visio, or Balsamiq is considered an asset.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and knowledge transfer skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

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