Consultant

Gain Credit Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 725,000 - 1,004,000; Full time

Job summary

Gain Credit Inc. is seeking a skilled Microsoft 365 administrator for a six-month engagement in Chennai. You will lead design, deployment, and governance of Microsoft 365, Intune, and modern identity solutions while ensuring security and compliance across the tenant.

Responsibilities include planning migrations, automating routine tasks with PowerShell, and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver a robust, cloud-first workspace. Strong communication and hands-on administration are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum hands-on Microsoft 365 administration experience.
• Experience with Defender for Business and security governance.
• Ability to automate tasks using PowerShell.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in a regulated industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assess and plan: review current Microsoft 365 setup, policies, and security posture.
• Build and deliver: configure Intune, identity, and security controls; migrate to cloud-native IDs.
• Runs safely: test changes, monitor controls, and ensure baselines.
• Govern and sustain: establish access reviews and governance cycles.
• Document and hand over: write runbooks and train the operations team.

Skills

Microsoft 365 administration

PowerShell scripting

Microsoft Graph API

Azure AD/Intune management

Communication skills

Tools

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

Intune

Azure Virtual Desktop

Job description

Founded in 2003, GAIN Credit is a tech-forward, inclusive,and responsible business using world-class innovative technology and datascience to provide endless gaining opportunities for customers, employees, andmerchants alike. At GAIN Credit, our mission is to empower lives, which isabout providing solutions that meet the credit needs of society in anaffordable and responsible manner, ensuring that we always treat customersfairly, helping our customers when they need it most by providing access to creditand giving them realistic timelines to re-pay.

Our flagship brands – Lending Stream & Drafty – enjoy4.4 & 4.3 ratings onTrustPilotrespectively (UK’s leading customer review website). Drafty – our pioneering credit-line product – is afirst-of-its-kind, no-fee credit line and has been awarded ‘Innovation of the Year’ for 2017 and2018 by the Consumer Credit Awards.InIndia, we are among the top 55 Great places to work. People at GAIN Credit – ‘GAINers’ as wecall them – are our assets. We believe happy peoplelead to happy customers. And this is why a great work culture is a super highpriority at GAIN Credit. We make that happen through living our company valuesin every interaction we have with each other. In fact, we believe the only wayto ‘gain’ at GAIN Credit is through living our company values.

Some of our awards:

• Rankedamong India Great places to work(mid-sized segment) in 2025-26
• BestShort-term loan provider at Consumer Credit Awards - 2025

To know more about us:

Website: www.gaincredit.com

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/gaincredit/mycompany/

Is this the place for you?

As a GAINer, you will get to focus on your personal andprofessional gains, experience an award-winning workplace culture, access toperks, maintain work-life balance, and contribute to the community inmeaningful ways. As a GAINer, integrity will guide everything you do, with aservice mindset that puts others first. You will foster curiosity to drivelearning, focus on continuous improvement, and take accountability for youractions to deliver exceptional outcomes.

We strongly believe in:

At GAIN Credit, we believe that our fantastic teams helpbuild the best products that enable us to understand and attract morecustomers. Therefore, we completely support and welcome diversity acrossthoughts, people, and actions.Wecare about our employees, and their well-being and have many on-goingactivities to boost their physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. We encourage people fromdiverse backgrounds, culture, age, gender, orientation, and abilities to applyfor all our openings and offer reasonable support to achieve their professionalgoals.

Our core strength:

We are at the core, an analytics company, founded by peoplewho, about 30 years ago, were pioneers in applying predictive modelling tosolve business problems.As we morphed into a financial services company from being an analyticsconsultant, we continued to train our scientists to apply these techniques, aswell as cutting-edge advances, and become a transformative leader in creditunderwriting in the UK.

Contractduration:

Sixmonths

Location:

Chennai.

Hours:

India business hours with agreed UKworking-hours overlap

Purpose:

Maximise the value of Microsoft 365 Business Premium following the move fromE3, strengthen security and device management, and leave controls that thepermanent team can operate. The role also includes modernising virtual desktopand device management on Microsoft Entra ID and Intune, and improving howleaver mailbox data is retained and governed.

Responsibilities

Assessand plan

• Review the current BusinessPremium configuration, licences, policies, integrations and securityposture.
• Map the move from E3, includingcapabilities gained, retained or lost, unused Business Premium featuresand any justified add-ons.
• Identify material gaps, risks,dependencies and quick wins.
• Build a ranked delivery planand agree priorities with stakeholders.
• Review the current virtualdesktop, directory and device management setup, and the existing processfor retaining leaver mailbox data.
• Own Microsoft 365 design andconfiguration. Routine user support remains with the operations team.

Buildand deliver

• Device management: Intuneenrolment, configuration, compliance, application deployment and updatecontrols for Windows, macOS and Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Identity and access: userlifecycle, multifactor authentication, Conditional Access, administrativeroles and guest access.
• Security: Microsoft Defenderfor Business, Defender for Office 365 Plan 1, endpoint protection andalert tuning.
• Data protection: sensitivitylabels, retention, Data Loss Prevention for Exchange, SharePoint andOneDrive, eDiscovery Standard and Audit Standard.
• Collaboration: Exchange, Teams,SharePoint andOneDrive configuration and governance.
• Automation and self-service:group-based access, workflows, scripts and reporting.
• Licensing boundaries: documentrequirements that need add-ons, enterprise capabilities or a differentoperating control.
• Virtual desktop and identitymodernisation: move Azure Virtual Desktop and related devices from hybridActive Directory to cloud-native Microsoft Entra ID and Intune management,including Group Policy migration.
• Mailbox retention andoffboarding: design and implement a governed Microsoft 365 process forretaining and accessing leaver mailbox data, aligned with retention andaudit requirements.

Runsafely

• Test, release and roll backchanges through change control.
• Monitor delivered controls andresolve implementation issues.
• Keep settings aligned withagreed security baselines and regulatory requirements.

Governand sustain

• Establish periodic accessreviews with named owners, evidence and tracked remediation.
• Use available Business Premiumcapabilities and recommend additional licensing only where nativeautomation or broader governance is justified.
• Establish licence, guest-accessand external-sharing reviews.
• Define controls for inactiveaccounts, devices and groups.
• Create reports and dashboardsthat show control health and audit evidence.
• Run the first agreed controlcycles and fix weaknesses found.

Documentand hand over

• Write runbooks, as-builtdocuments and user guidance.
• Train named team members tooperate each delivered area.
• Contribute to related Microsoft365, end-user computing, identity and security priorities during thesix-month term.
• Current-state and E3-transitionreview with findings, risks, quick wins and licence boundaries in thefirst month.
• Agreed and ranked improvementplan focused on using Business Premium effectively.
• Agreed controls built, testedand released with change records and rollback plans.
• Virtual desktop and leavermailbox processes moved to governed, cloud-managed Microsoft 365 controls.
• Repeatable governance processesin place, including the first agreed access review cycle.
• Reports that show controlhealth and provide audit evidence.
• Current runbooks, as-builtdocuments and a trained owner for each delivered area.

Musthave

• At least seven years ofhands-on Microsoft 365 administration, including strong Business Premiumexperience.
• Experience delivering Microsoft365 work from assessment and design through release and handover.
• Experience managing Windows andmacOS devices with Intune.
• Strong identity, access andsecurity skills across Microsoft 365.
• Experience with Azure VirtualDesktop and with migrating from hybrid Active Directory to Microsoft EntraID and Intune, including Group Policy migration.
• Experience in a regulatedindustry and a clear understanding of audit evidence and compliance needs.
• Automation experience usingPowerShell and Microsoft Graph.
• Clear written and verbalcommunication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independentlyand own outcomes.

Nice tohave

• Experience applying ISO 27001or CIS Benchmarks to Microsoft 365.
• Experience with Exchange Onlineretention and eDiscovery, and with Power Automate.