DIRECT CLIENT // SharePoint Architect

[Sunny Roy]

Very urgent DIRECT CLIENT Opening.  Please send the resumes at Su...@cncconsulting.com 

Job Title: SharePoint Architect

Location: St. Paul, MN

Duration: 12 Months

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Requires a consultant to assist in developing the architecture for a Microsoft SharePoint Upgrade and assist in the migration. The  Council is going to transition from on premises SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online no later June, 2019. The Council requires a consultant to provide a new architecture and conduct a migration of the current version to new version. Currently, there are roughly 4,000 users and 750 sites enterprise wide.

The Architect will perform the following tasks: 

Assessment of the existing environment to explore SharePoint’s architecture, audit SharePoint farms and define the migration model. o Deliverable: Report of findings and recommendations. 

Create and develop architecture for new internal intranet 

Construction of new SharePoint environment based on development plan. The environment must include or achieve the following features: 

Custom navigation through the new SharePoint Online environment for ease of use. This will need to be determined through a UX program. 

Site template creation for customizations that can be utilized for similar department/business needs 

Implementation of Council branding and design 

Improved search functionality 

Data tagging and content classification best practices 

Deliverable: Completed intranet in a test virtual environment 

Qualifications/Experience: The following should be noted in resumes provided for the architect or in the firm references. 

Experience in building a durable architecture from scratch and improving legacy architecture 

Audit SharePoint farms and define the migration model. 

Deliverable: Report of findings and migration model 

Analysis of current SharePoint solutions, including site collections and sites in terms of their structure and purposes, permission management model, complexity of customization and more. 

Deliverable: Report of findings and recommendation 

Develop migration plan to move content from current SharePoint environment to new SharePoint Online environment. The Council will provide a list of sites to migrate and priority plan that must be incorporated into the migration plan to the selected consultant. Content should be migrated in the shortest timeframes without disruption to business processes. 

Deliverable: Preliminary and final migration plan. Plan should include sequence of the movement of sites and contents with a specific timeline. 

Migration of lists, libraries and content from current SharePoint site to SharePoint Online. As a part of this stage, we also reset workflows, reorganize content, restructure sites and site collections, fix or recode customizations, provide custom branding, etc. Continuous QA/QC while in test environment is will conducted by consultant. 

Deliverable: Migration mapping. 

Migration of customized forms, InfoPath forms and views to SharePoint Online. As a part of this stage, we also reset workflows, reorganize content, restructure sites and site collections, fix or recode customizations, provide custom branding, etc. Continuous QA/QC while in test environment is will conducted

Deliverable: Migration mapping 

Testing of the new environment to control functional equivalency, reveal and resolved possible performance issues and identify security issues for Council staff to resolve. 

Deliverable: Preliminary and final testing plan for migration from test to production environment. 

Deliverable: Final test of migrated content to production to ensure all content was migrated successful. 

Training for site SharePoint administrators and developers on migrated content and environment. Proposers should plan on one, 8 hour training session to be held in St. Paul, MN for up to 20 Council staff. A training manual should be provided for each participant.

Thanks,

Sunny Roy
Su...@cncconsulting.com