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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