Technical SharePoint & ECM Migration Specialist
- Pay Rate: Flexible- Hybrid
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
- Contract Length: 6 Months
We at Raise are We are looking for an experienced Technical SharePoint & ECM Migration Specialist to support a major enterprise migration from OpenText Content Server to SharePoint Online.
This is a hands-on technical role for someone who understands both sides of the migration — enterprise content management platforms and Microsoft SharePoint — and can lead the assessment, planning, technical design, migration and transition to operations.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the technical planning and execution of an enterprise OpenText Content Server → SharePoint Online migration
- Assess existing Content Server repositories, structures, metadata, permissions, workflows and business usage
- Develop migration strategies, content mapping and site/library structures
- Map OpenText metadata, categories and attributes to SharePoint content types and managed metadata
- Lead content cleanup, reorganization and pre-migration preparation
- Configure and administer SharePoint Online / Modern SharePoint
- Design SharePoint sites, libraries, permissions, user groups and business workflows
- Develop scripts and technical solutions to automate migration activities
- Troubleshoot complex migration issues including deep folder structures, long paths, unsupported characters, large repositories, custom workflows, plugins and other platform limitations
- Ensure preservation of metadata, permissions, version history, audit information and original document attributes
- Develop approaches for preserving links and references to migrated Content Server content
- Develop requirements and technical solutions for immutable Content Server backups and restoration for audit purposes
- Provide OpenText Content Server and SharePoint technical/operational support
- Lead pilot migrations, migration waves and technical transition to operations
- Develop migration procedures, technical documentation, checklists and best practices
- Provide technical guidance to project teams, administrators and business stakeholders
What We’re Looking For
Must Have:
- 5+ years of hands-on OpenText Content Server / OpenText Content Suite / Livelink experience
- 5+ years of hands-on SharePoint administration and migration experience
- Demonstrated experience leading or significantly contributing to enterprise ECM/content repository migrations to SharePoint
- Strong knowledge of OpenText Content Server:
o Repository and folder structures
o Metadata/categories/attributes
o User and group permissions
o Workflows
o Versioning
o Data extraction/connectivity
o Administration and operational support
- Strong SharePoint Online / Modern SharePoint technical skills
- Experience with SharePoint information architecture, sites, libraries, content types, managed metadata and permissions
- Experience with migration scripting/automation
- Strong understanding of data governance, audit and compliance requirements
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex content migration issues
Strongly Preferred
Direct experience migrating OpenText Content Server to SharePoint is highly preferred.
We will also consider candidates with substantial experience migrating comparable enterprise ECM platforms such as:
- IBM FileNet / IBM Content Manager
- Documentum
- Hyland OnBase
- Alfresco
- Laserfiche
- M-Files
- Other enterprise ECM/content-management platforms
For alternative ECM backgrounds, candidates should demonstrate hands-on enterprise ECM → SharePoint migration experience, rather than simply ECM administration.
Education
- University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline is preferred.
- Equivalent technical experience will be considered.
Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to play a key technical role in a large-scale enterprise content transformation, helping move critical business content from a legacy ECM environment into a modern SharePoint platform while maintaining data integrity, security, metadata, permissions and auditability.
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