M365 Technical Architect

Sopra Steria Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting company is seeking an experienced M365 Technical Architect to join their team. You will design and deliver innovative Microsoft 365 solutions while mentoring junior staff and engaging in pre-sales activities. This role offers flexibility to work anywhere across the UK and provides excellent benefits and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave with option to buy additional days

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering end-to-end M365/CoPilot/Intune solutions based on client requirements.
• Leading workshops, demonstrations, and webinars to showcase our offerings.
• Acting as Technical Design Authority and providing governance across project delivery.
• Mentoring junior team members and supporting capability development.
• Engaging in pre-sales, proposals and RFI contributions with sales and solution teams.
• Driving innovation by developing new IP and contributing to go-to-market initiatives.

Skills

Strong experience with Microsoft 365, CoPilot, and Intune deployment and migration

Deep knowledge of Microsoft productivity and security solutions

Expertise in identity and access management

Familiarity with Copilot capabilities

Excellent communication and leadership skills

Proven experience facilitating complex customer workshops

Tools

Microsoft Cyber Security Expert certification

M365 Endpoint or Collaboration certification

Knowledge of Azure security services

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced M365 Technical Architect to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll play a key part in delivering and implementing innovative Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Intune solutions for a wide range of clients. You’ll collaborate closely with technical architects and consultants to guarantee delivery excellence, all while mentoring others and shaping our proposition strategy.

You’ll be joining a supportive and collaborative team where innovation, growth and quality delivery are at the heart of everything we do. You’ll also play a crucial role in pre-sales activity, client engagement, and acting as Technical Design Authority on key projects.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and delivering end-to-end M365/CoPilot/Intune solutions based on client requirements.
• Leading workshops, demonstrations, and webinars to showcase our offerings.
• Acting as Technical Design Authority and providing governance across project delivery.
• Mentoring junior team members and supporting capability development.
• Engaging in pre-sales, proposals and RFI contributions with sales and solution teams.
• Driving innovation by developing new IP and contributing to go-to-market initiatives.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience with Microsoft 365, CoPilot, and Intune deployment and migration.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft productivity and security solutions.
• Expertise in identity and access management, including Microsoft security tools.
• Familiarity with Copilot capabilities and its impact on user productivity.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Proven experience facilitating complex customer workshops and co-design sessions.

It would be great if you had

• Microsoft Cyber Security Expert or Identity & Access Management certifications.
• M365 Endpoint or Collaboration certification.
• Knowledge of Azure security services.
• Experience with M365 Security & Compliance and Apps Productivity Suite including SharePoint.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Location: UK Wide

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Annecia

Salary: dependent on experience

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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With a long history of delivering transformation, we’ve developed a market-leading partnership ecosystem to provide business services of the future and shape valuable, positive outcomes for communities. We empower our clients by providing innovative solutions and commercial models that help them meet their business needs, drive operational efficiencies, and deliver impactful value creation. We remain committed to values of excellence, empathy and respect to produce transformative outcomes in business processing – creating value for all.

We embrace diversity as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK’s largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.