We are looking for a SharePoint Online Governance Analyst to join a manufacturing organization in Crystal Lake, Illinois in a contract capacity with the potential for a permanent role. This role focuses on strengthening governance, security, reporting, and administration across SharePoint Online and the broader Microsoft 365 environment. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on platform expertise with strong analytical skills to support site oversight, automation, compliance alignment, and collaboration with technical and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee governance activities for SharePoint Online sites, libraries, Microsoft 365 groups, and Teams-connected workspaces to promote secure and well-managed collaboration environments.
- Administer permissions, ownership settings, external sharing, and guest access while helping maintain consistent controls across the Microsoft 365 landscape.
- Monitor site health and lifecycle processes by supporting ownership reviews, site attestations, inactive-site follow-up, and data access oversight.
- Create and maintain scripts, workflows, and automated processes using PowerShell, Power Automate, Azure Automation, Logic Apps, or similar technologies to improve operational efficiency.
- Produce dashboards, reports, and data analyses using Power BI, Excel, Power Query, or related tools to track inventories, permissions, exceptions, and governance metrics.
- Partner with security, compliance, legal, records management, administrators, and business teams to address governance needs and align platform usage with organizational standards.
- Investigate technical issues, validate data accuracy, and document procedures, findings, and recommendations in a clear and organized manner.
- Escalate policy, security, architectural, and risk-related concerns to the appropriate stakeholders when decisions require broader review or approval.
- 3–5 years of experience supporting SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 administration, governance, security, automation, or reporting functions.
- Solid knowledge of SharePoint Online administration, including site structure, document libraries, Microsoft 365 groups, Teams-connected sites, permissions, site ownership, sharing controls, and guest access management.
- Working familiarity with advanced governance capabilities such as ownership reporting, site attestation, inactive site management, lifecycle controls, and data access monitoring.
- Intermediate PowerShell skills, ideally including SharePoint Online Management Shell, PnP PowerShell, Microsoft Graph PowerShell, APIs, or similar reporting and integration tools.
- Experience with workflow and automation platforms such as Power Automate, Azure Automation, or Logic Apps.
- Understanding of Microsoft Purview features related to sensitivity labels, retention, records management, information protection, and auditing.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, guest identity management, enterprise applications, and service principals.
- Ability to build reporting solutions and dashboards while demonstrating strong troubleshooting, documentation, technical writing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.