Advertised by The Project Foundry Ltd

Business Analyst.

Dublin

About this role

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support a large-scale enterprise migration from Box to SharePoint.

This is a business-critical programme impacting more than 40,000 users across a global organisation. The Business Analyst will work closely with the Project Manager, Technical Migration Lead, business stakeholders, IT teams and governance functions to understand current-state usage, gather and document requirements, support migration planning and ensure that business needs are accurately reflected throughout the migration.

The role will have a strong focus on requirements gathering, process analysis, data and document governance, permissions, access controls, migration mapping and business readiness.

This is a fully remote role and requires an experienced Business Analyst with proven SharePoint migration experience and a strong background in complex enterprise technology or document migration programmes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Gather, analyse and document business and functional requirements for the Box to SharePoint migration.
  • Work with business stakeholders to understand how Box is currently being used across different teams and functions.
  • Document current-state and future-state processes relating to document storage, collaboration, permissions and information management.
  • Identify business requirements around folder structures, metadata, permissions, access controls, ownership and document lifecycle.
  • Support the assessment and mapping of existing Box content into the future SharePoint structure.
  • Work closely with the Technical Migration Lead to translate business requirements into clear technical migration requirements.
  • Support data discovery, cleansing, archive and deletion activities ahead of migration.
  • Identify duplicate, obsolete or redundant content and support business decisions around retention and migration.
  • Capture and manage business rules relating to document ownership, retention, access and governance.
  • Facilitate workshops and requirements-gathering sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
  • Identify gaps, risks, dependencies and potential impacts arising from the migration.
  • Support the definition of migration waves and business readiness requirements.
  • Develop user stories, process flows, requirements documentation and acceptance criteria where appropriate.
  • Maintain clear requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Support testing, UAT and business validation of migrated content.
  • Assist business users in validating permissions, document structures, metadata and access following migration.
  • Support issue investigation and root cause analysis during migration testing and deployment.
  • Work with project and change teams to identify business impacts and support stakeholder communications.
  • Ensure key business decisions, requirements and approvals are clearly documented and auditable.
  • Support project governance and reporting by providing clear updates on requirements, risks, issues and outstanding decisions.

Required Skills & Experience

Must Have

  • Proven Business Analysis experience on SharePoint migration programmes.
  • Strong experience supporting enterprise document or content migrations into SharePoint.
  • Strong understanding of SharePoint structures, permissions, access controls, metadata and document management.
  • Experience gathering and documenting requirements specifically within migration programmes.
  • Experience supporting migration mapping between source and target environments.
  • Experience analysing document structures, folders, metadata, permissions and ownership models.
  • Strong requirements gathering, analysis and documentation skills.
  • Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
  • Experience documenting current-state and future-state processes.
  • Strong workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into clear functional and technical requirements.
  • Experience supporting testing, UAT and business acceptance activities within migration programmes.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to manage large volumes of requirements and stakeholder input.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently within a fully remote delivery environment.

Highly Desirable

  • Previous Box to SharePoint migration experience.
  • Experience with Microsoft 365 or enterprise content management platforms.
  • Experience supporting large-scale migrations involving significant data volumes and user populations.
  • Understanding of ShareGate or similar migration tooling.
  • Experience with information governance, records management or document retention policies.
  • Experience working within a regulated environment.
  • Understanding of validated systems, change control, compliance and audit requirements.
  • Experience supporting migration projects within Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services or another highly controlled industry.
  • Experience working with globally distributed stakeholder groups.
  • Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Key Attributes

  • Highly analytical and detail-oriented.
  • Strong understanding of SharePoint migration concepts and challenges.
  • Strong ability to understand complex business processes and translate them into clear requirements.
  • Comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
  • Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
  • Able to challenge requirements and identify gaps or inconsistencies.
  • Structured and methodical approach to documentation.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Comfortable working with large volumes of data, content and business requirements.
  • Pragmatic and delivery-focused.
  • Able to work effectively in an evolving and fast-paced programme environment.

Why Apply?

  • Support a major enterprise migration impacting more than 40,000 users globally.
  • Work closely with an experienced Project Manager and Technical Migration Lead.
  • Gain exposure to enterprise-scale Microsoft 365 and SharePoint transformation.
  • Work within a complex global organisation on a business-critical programme.
  • Fully remote working model.
  • Competitive daily rates.

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