Modern Workplace M365 & Sharepoint Information Management

As a Microsoft 365 Information & Knowledge Management Architect, you will be responsible for designing and governing enterprise-scale information-management, collaboration and knowledge-management solutions across Microsoft 365. You will define the target architecture, governance framework, security model and information lifecycle strategy required to support highly regulated environments.

Working closely with business stakeholders, security, compliance and engineering teams, you will ensure that information is classified, protected, discoverable and managed throughout its lifecycle while enabling secure collaboration and sharing across the organization.

Come join us:

You will be joining the Workplace Engineering Practice team with the best of Modern Workplace Consultants, focused on advancing the state of the art in the Modern Workplace Solution areas. Specifically, our goals are to drive customer adoption through Technical Leadership on the most strategic, complex and transformative consulting projects. Our team is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customer’s digital journey through repeatable and customised cutting-edge solutions powered by the Microsoft Cloud. By joining our team you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to life-changing innovations that impact billions of people worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and lead the target architecture for Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) capabilities across Microsoft 365, including information architecture, governance, content classification, metadata management, secure collaboration and knowledge management services.

Design enterprise information architectures, taxonomy frameworks, metadata models and content-governance strategies aligned with business, security and compliance requirements.

Establish information-classification frameworks, including information segregation, secure collaboration boundaries and mandatory classification controls.

Design and govern information protection, classification, retention policies, records management, compliance and data loss prevention capabilities across Microsoft 365

Define secure access models based on Need-to-Know principles, least privilege and Zero Trust security frameworks.

Lead the design of content lifecycle-management strategies, including retention, archival, disposition, auditing and records-management requirements.

Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across migration, modernization and digital-workplace initiatives.

Lead architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders, driving requirements, decision-making and solution adoption.

Develop architecture roadmaps, governance frameworks, reference architectures, standards, operating models and implementation guidance.

Support an collaborate with delivery teams during implementation, ensuring alignment with architectural, security and governance principles.

Act as the subject matter expert for SharePoint, Microsoft 365 governance, information management and knowledge-management best practices.

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Skills and experiences:

10+ years of experience designing, architecting and delivering SharePoint and Microsoft technologies in complex enterprise environments.

Proven experience acting as the architecture lead for SharePoint and Microsoft 365 information management solutions.

Extensive experience with SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Experience supporting or leading SharePoint Online migration and modernization initiatives involving information governance, content restructuring and knowledge management requirements.

Demonstrable experience contributing to Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) programs or enterprise information-governance initiatives.

Strong experience working with enterprise information architectures, taxonomy strategies and metadata governance models.

Experience working with regulated environments where information governance, data classification, auditability and access-control requirements are critical.

Experience designing information segregation models for sensitive and classified information, including dedicated SharePoint Sites, Teams and Document Libraries with differentiated access controls.

Experience designing and governing enterprise metadata models covering classification, ownership, criticality, retention and compliance requirements.

Experience defining information lifecycle-management strategies including retention, archival, versioning, disposition and auditing.

Strong understanding of enterprise knowledge-management principles, including content capture, organization, discovery, reuse and continuous knowledge improvement.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including the ability to lead workshops, architecture discussions and stakeholder engagements.

About you:

Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

Embrace challenges with a keen intellect and a thirst for knowledge.

Collaborate seamlessly, fostering open and effective communication (English)

Embrace creativity and explore groundbreaking solutions.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade:

Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits here .

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page .

Create a future for our people that focuses on

Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

Learn More

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