SharePoint Content Migration Designer

SharePoint Content Migration Designer Remote First Working - UK Wide. Financial Services Lorien's leading global banking client is seeking a senior SharePoint Content Migration Strategy Manager to join a major enterprise-wide transformation programme. This is a high-impact role responsible for designing and building the content migration strategy from scratch, securing Board- and ExCo-level buy-in, and leading both the strategy phase and Phase 2 delivery of the migration to SharePoint Online. You will combine strong technical SharePoint platform expertise with senior stakeholder influence, acting as a trusted advisor while driving the migration from concept through to successful execution. The role is UK-wide, operated in a remote-first model, and engaged via umbrella. Key Skills and Experience • Design, build, and own the end-to-end content migration strategy from inception, defining the target approach for migrating legacy platforms to SharePoint Online. • Assess, evaluate, and recommend migration approaches, tooling, and architectural options, producing materials for approval via formal governance and decision-making forums. • Influence, manage, and engage senior stakeholders up to Board and Executive Committee level, confidently selling the strategy, securing sponsorship, and driving alignment. • Develop and maintain a detailed migration roadmap, covering milestones, risks, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation strategies. • Define the overall migration and SharePoint delivery framework, including process, platform design, data quality standards, governance, security, and compliance considerations. • Own Phase 2 delivery, transitioning from strategy into execution and ensuring the migration is delivered in line with the approved roadmap. • Provide technical leadership across the SharePoint Online platform, leveraging deep hands-on experience to shape design decisions, solution architecture, and migration outcomes. • Define resourcing and capability requirements, supporting onboarding and mobilisation of delivery teams where required. • Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the migration effectively, on time, and to quality standards. • Work closely with business, technology, and programme stakeholders to ensure content is migrated accurately, securely, and in line with regulatory and business requirements. • Ensure alignment with the wider transformation programme, managing interdependencies across parallel workstreams. • Deliver clear progress reporting and insight to programme governance, steering committees, and senior leadership forums. • Translate complex technical architecture and migration detail into clear, executive-level communication for non-technical stakeholders. Skills & Experience Required • Proven experience building and owning content migration strategies from scratch, through to successful delivery. • Strong, hands-on technical experience designing and building SharePoint Online platforms within enterprise environments. • Demonstrated delivery of large-scale SharePoint or content migration programmes, ideally within regulated or complex organisations. • Proven ability to influence senior leaders, engaging confidently with Board- and ExCo-level stakeholders. • Experience selling strategic recommendations and driving consensus across competing priorities. • Background leading delivery teams through Phase 2 execution, not just strategy and design. • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge deep technical detail and executive decision-making. • Comfortable operating in a remote-first, UK-wide delivery model. • Banking or financial services experience is highly desirable. IND\_PC3 Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.