Senior Software Engineer - Subject Matter Expert - (SharePoint /Purview)

Position Description

Company Profile: Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.

Job Title: Subject Matter Expert - (SharePoint /Purview)

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Experience: 5 Years - 8 Years

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Main location: India, Karnataka, Bangalore

Position ID: J0926-0743

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description: The Exemplar Harvesting SME is responsible for identifying, reviewing, and finalizing representative business documents from SharePoint and other approved document repositories to support Microsoft Purview Auto Retention Labels. The role requires strong understanding of Global Records Schedules, retention requirements, business processes, and document context, so that the right positive and negative exemplar documents are selected for training data preparation. This is a quality-driven role that requires judgment, persistence, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to maintain expected harvesting velocity while managing ambiguity, mislabeling, and business pushback.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Job Description: Exemplar Harvesting Focal

• GRS Auto Retention Labels SharePoint based Exemplar Identification and Training Data

Preparation

• Role Type Specialist / SME role supporting exemplar harvesting for retention label training

Key Responsibilities

• Interpret Global Records Schedule definitions, retention requirements, and business process context to identify suitable exemplar documents.
• Navigate SharePoint sites, libraries, folders, and other approved repositories to locate relevant business documents across different content sources.
• Identify and prepare both positive and negative exemplar documents required for training data preparation and classifier readiness.
• Review document context, metadata, and content indicators to assess whether the document aligns with the intended retention label or business process.
• Detect potential mislabeling, ambiguous records, incorrect samples, or low-quality documents and document the rationale for inclusion or exclusion.
• Work with Business SMEs and project stakeholders to validate assumptions, resolve classification questions, and confirm final exemplar sets.
• Manage pushback or uncertainty professionally by bringing options, evidence, and clear recommendations for finalization.
• Maintain harvesting trackers, inventories, decisions, status dashboards, and evidence trails to support quality control and reporting.
• Maintain agreed delivery velocity while protecting classification quality and escalating blockers early when access, scope, or validation is delayed.
• Support retention label mapping, quality review, and readiness activities for Microsoft Purview Auto Retention Labels.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 5 years of relevant experience.

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