Remote Modern Workplace Engineering Lead

Southern New Hampshire University; Central City (NE); Remote; USD 97,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision plans

Paid time off

Employer-funded retirement

Job summary

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Modern Workplace Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for Microsoft 365, endpoint management, collaboration, identity, automation, and related technologies. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, participate in design and deployment, and guide engineering standards and coaching across the team.

You will report to the Director of Modern Workplace Engineering and drive platform strategy, governance, and service improvements while

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of progressive experience in Microsoft 365, endpoint engineering, or related Modern Workplace technologies.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience in lieu of degree acceptable.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 administration and multiple Modern Workplace disciplines such as endpoint management, collaboration, identity, automation, or device engineering.
• Experience coaching technical employees, managing performance, and supporting career development.
• Experience managing competing operational priorities, escalations, projects, and technical resources.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Microsoft 365, endpoint management, collaboration, identity, security, automation, and device-management technologies.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex technical incidents, service disruptions, implementation challenges, and architectural decisions.
• Participate in technical discovery, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and documentation when needed.
• Review technical designs, implementation plans, scripts, configurations, and operational procedures for quality, security, scalability, and supportability.
• Manage work intake, prioritization, resource assignment, execution, and follow-through across operational and project-based work.
• Establish clear technical standards, engineering practices, documentation requirements, and accountability expectations.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance discussions, technical coaching, and professional-development planning.
• Identify skill gaps and create opportunities for cross-training, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and technical growth.
• Partner with the Director on platform strategy, architecture, workforce planning, budgeting, vendor management, and service improvement.
• Coordinate technical delivery across Microsoft 365, Intune, Windows, macOS, MECM, Autopilot, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID, Power Platform, Copilot, and related technologies.
• Work with Information Security, Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Service Management, and other ITS teams to design and deliver secure, reliable solutions.
• Develop automation and encourage the use of scripting, standardization, and repeatable engineering practices.
• Monitor service performance, technical debt, workload distribution, platform health, and delivery outcomes.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, status, resource needs, and recommendations to leadership and stakeholders.
• Represent Modern Workplace Engineering in technical reviews, governance forums, project meetings, and operational discussions.

Skills

Microsoft 365

Endpoint engineering

Infrastructure

Systems administration

Modern Workplace technologies

Technical leadership

Coaching & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Intune

MECM

Autopilot

Windows

Power Platform

SharePoint

Job description

Southern New Hampshire University is seeking a Modern Workplace Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for Microsoft 365, endpoint management, collaboration, identity, automation, and related technologies. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, participate in design and deployment, and guide engineering standards and coaching across the team.

You will report to the Director of Modern Workplace Engineering and drive platform strategy, governance, and service improvements while