Business Analyst - SharePoint Migration / Microsoft 365

Job Title: Business Analyst – SharePoint Migration/Microsoft 365
Job Type: 4 to 6-month Contract (possibility of extension)
Location: 10524 42 Street SE, Calgary, AB T2C 5C7 – On-Site
Hours: 40 hours/week | Monday–Friday
Contract Hours: Up to 1,504 hours
Rate: $65.00/hr Inc.

Position Overview
Our client is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support a complex, client-facing SharePoint Migration and Microsoft 365 transformation initiative in Calgary.
Working closely with the Senior Project Manager, technical teams, and client stakeholders, the Business Analyst will play a key role in gathering and documenting business requirements, mapping processes, supporting content and migration decisions, coordinating testing, and ensuring business stakeholders are prepared for migration and transition activities.  The successful candidate will be a strong communicator and facilitator who can translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and effectively navigate a complex enterprise project environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Senior Project Manager, technical teams, business owners, and client stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Gather, analyze, validate, and document business, content, process, security, and compliance requirements.
• Work with stakeholders to determine which content should be migrated, archived, updated, or retired.
• Facilitate requirements-gathering workshops, discovery sessions, and working meetings.
• Document business processes, business rules, user stories, data mappings, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Support migration discovery, planning, execution, validation, transition, and stabilization activities.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, business validation, defect tracking, and resolution.
• Track requirements, decisions, issues, defects, risks, dependencies, and business approvals/sign-offs.
• Ensure business owners understand required actions, timelines, impacts, and accountabilities.
• Support cutover, transition, handover, and post-migration validation activities.
• Identify requirements gaps, risks, and dependencies early and provide practical recommendations.
• Maintain clear and accurate project documentation and ensure information is communicated effectively to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting complex, client-facing technology projects.
• Strong experience in:
  • Requirements gathering and analysis
  • Business and process documentation
  • Process mapping
  • Requirements validation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Change management
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Defect tracking and resolution
  • Business sign-off and validation
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams, project managers, and senior leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong facilitation, organization, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating within a larger project team.
• Comfortable working in a complex enterprise environment with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities.

Strongly Preferred
Candidates with experience in SharePoint migration and/or Microsoft 365 transformation projects are strongly preferred.

Additional experience with the following would be highly beneficial:

• SharePoint Online and/or SharePoint On-Premises
• Enterprise SharePoint migrations
• Microsoft 365 transformation initiatives
• Content discovery and assessment
• Metadata and information architecture
• Permissions and access requirements
• Retention and compliance requirements
• System and application integrations
• Migration validation and stabilization
• Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Planner or similar project management/collaboration tools

Nice to Have

• Experience working within the energy, utilities, oil & gas, or another large enterprise environment.
• Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery environments.
• Business analysis certification such as CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, or equivalent.