Microsoft 365 Governance Administrator

Role Overview

• Lead governance initiatives across SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and Power Platform.
• Assess and remediate legacy configurations, over-permissioned content, and stale collaboration resources.
• Drive tenant modernization aligned to Microsoft best practices and enterprise governance standards.
• Design and maintain least-privilege permission models across M365 workloads.
• Develop automated renewal profiles for user and group membership recertification on a recurring basis to reduce risk and entitlement sprawl.
• Partner with Security and GRC teams to ensure access controls meet compliance and audit expectations.
• Define and operate lifecycle management for M365 resources, including: Archiving inactive Teams, Sites, and Groups
• Implement and manage retention and records management policies in partnership with Legal and GRC teams.
• Support Microsoft 365 migration and integration efforts associated with M&A activity.
• Automate governance and administration using AvePoint, PowerShell, Power Automate, SharePoint Advanced Management, and Microsoft Graph.

Requirements

• Bachelor (4-year) degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science or an equivalent combination of education & experience.
• Microsoft Certification(s) not required but a plus.
• 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft 365 administration, with deep SharePoint Online experience.
• Proven experience cleaning up, governing, and modernizing enterprise M365 tenants.
• Strong background in permissions management, lifecycle governance, retention, and compliance-driven collaboration.
• Experience partnering with Legal, GRC, and Security teams on retention and data protection initiatives.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including analysis and manipulation of large data sets (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas, data normalization).
• Strong automation capability using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph API, PowerAutomate, and SharePoint Advanced Management to extract, analyze, and report on large-scale M365 governance data (Sites/Teams/Groups/permissions/lifecycle signals).

Benefits

• We strive to ensure employees feel appreciated for the contributions they make every single day.
• You will provide input and have your ideas valued and nurtured, impacting positive change for the company.