IT Architect - SharePoint

What you'll do:

Job Summary
The Collaboration Team Platform Architect is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the design, implementation, optimization, and governance across a broad scope of Microsoft solutions. This position requires deep expertise in modern cloud-based collaboration tools as well as on-premises SharePoint infrastructure, with a strong focus on aligning platform capabilities to business needs, ensuring security and compliance, and enabling digital transformation initiatives. The architect will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, business analysts, and end users, to deliver scalable and robust solutions.

Job Responsibilities
Platform Architecture and Strategy:
• Develop and maintain the overall architecture and roadmap for SharePoint across M365 and SharePoint Server 2019, ensuring alignment with enterprise IT strategy.
• Advise on migration strategies between on-premises and cloud environments, including hybrid architectures.
• Conduct platform assessments to identify opportunities for modernization, automation, and process improvements.
Solution Design and Implementation:
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performing SharePoint solutions, including intranets, extranets, document management, workflow automation.
• Evaluate, design, and implement Microsoft CoPilot capabilities within SharePoint and M365 environments to enhance user productivity, automate routine tasks, and drive adoption of AI-powered features.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify high-value use cases for CoPilot and ensure responsible deployment in line with organizational policies.
• Architect integrations between SharePoint platforms and Microsoft Azure services to extend solution capabilities, enable advanced automation, and support scalable, cloud-native applications.
• Lead the implementation of complex solutions, including integrations with other M365 services (Teams, Power Platform, OneDrive), third-party tools, and legacy systems.
• Architect and support solutions that leverage Microsoft Viva modules (Connections, Insights, Topics, Learning) to enhance employee experience, knowledge management, and organizational communication.
• Define standards and best practices for site collection architecture, information architecture, metadata, and taxonomy.
Governance, Security, and Compliance:
• Establish and enforce governance policies for content management, access control, lifecycle management, and retention.
• Work closely with the security team to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements, including data privacy and protection.
• Monitor and manage platform performance, availability, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Ensure compliance with requirements for handling controlled data, including GCCH (Government Community Cloud High), ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations), and CUI (Controlled Unclassified Information).