Sharepoint Solution Architect

This is a contract position for a SharePoint Solution Architect based in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a duration of 6 or more months. You will lead the end-to-end architecture, governance, and pilot implementation of a Microsoft 365-based Deal Workspace for investment banking. As the onsite design authority, you will guide the technical vision for SharePoint Online, Teams, Purview, Entra ID, Power Platform, Salesforce-triggered provisioning, and emerging Copilot-enabled capabilities. You will ensure the solution is secure, scalable, governed from day one, and validated before broader rollout.

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.

Qualifications

• Required

• 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.

• Preferred

• Financial services, capital markets, or regulated industry experience.

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