Senior Exchange & Microsoft 365 Messaging Architect

Methods; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Development programme

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Wellness programme

Time off 25 days

Job summary

Methods is seeking an experienced Exchange / Microsoft 365 / Messaging Architect to lead the messaging architecture for a major technology transformation. You will own the migration strategy, design secure and resilient mail systems, and guide coexistence between existing platforms and the target Microsoft 365 environment.

London-based role with initial onsite work and then hybrid working. The candidate will coordinate with security, identity, and application teams to ensure mail flow, data

Qualifications

• Experience with Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 architecture.
• Hybrid or multi-tenant messaging environments.
• Tenant-to-tenant mailbox migrations and complex coexistence arrangements.
• Strong knowledge of DNS, mail routing and security controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the messaging architecture across the transformation lifecycle.
• Define coexistence and target-state messaging architectures across tenants.
• Design mail-routing, DNS, Autodiscover and service-discovery for coexistence and migration.
• Develop migration patterns for user, shared, resource and service mailboxes; plan sequencing and cutover.
• Provide architectural assurance and review designs from engineering teams.

Skills

Exchange Online

Microsoft 365

Enterprise messaging

Hybrid/multi-tenant

Migration planning

DNS/MX

Security controls

Stakeholder management

Job description

Methods is seeking an experienced Exchange / Microsoft 365 / Messaging Architect to lead the messaging architecture for a major technology transformation. You will own the migration strategy, design secure and resilient mail systems, and guide coexistence between existing platforms and the target Microsoft 365 environment.

London-based role with initial onsite work and then hybrid working. The candidate will coordinate with security, identity, and application teams to ensure mail flow, data