Senior M365 Enterprise Engineer | Teams,SharePoint & Copilot

Venable LLP; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Venable LLP in Baltimore is seeking an Enterprise Applications Engineer III to lead the strategy and governance of Microsoft 365 services across Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. The role drives standards, architecture, and phased Purview initiatives to ensure secure, scalable collaboration across the firm.

The successful candidate will bring 5+ years of hands-on M365 experience, deep migration expertise, Copilot familiarity, and the ability to communicate complex options to

Qualifications

• A minimum of five years of hands-on Microsoft 365 experience spanning Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design, implementation, and governance of M365 collaboration solutions at an enterprise scale.
• Direct experience establishing or maturing a Microsoft Purview program (data discovery, classification, labeling, DLP).
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing a large-scale migration of on-premises file shares to OneDrive for Business and/or SharePoint Online.
• Working knowledge and implementation experience with Microsoft Copilot for M365.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 licensing structures (E3/E5, Copilot, Purview add-on SKUs) and ability to map license entitlements to business value.
• Proven ability to communicate technical capability and options to non-technical executive and legal stakeholders, in writing and in person.
• Experience in a law firm or other privileged/regulated environment, with familiarity with ethical walls, matter-based access models, and records retention obligations preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Serving as a member of the team responsible for implementing the Firm's multi-year Microsoft 365 strategy, working collaboratively with IT leadership and other stakeholders to define direction, including a phased Purview rollout roadmap
• Taking responsibility for the design, implementation and optimization of Microsoft 365 solutions across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and additional productivity apps
• Establishing and maintaining the Firm's M365 architecture standards and configuration playbooks (naming conventions, provisioning baselines, permission models) so the platform engineer and support team can operate consistently against a documented standard
• Staying current with Microsoft's roadmap and release cycle; evaluate new capabilities and present recommendations
• Managing the Purview platform, its technical configuration, and its implementation, working closely with the business to set classification standards and data-handling requirements, translating those standards into working taxonomy, labeling, and container-inheritance design
• In conjunction with peers, planning and helping lead the migration of on-premises network file shares to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, including discovery/assessment of existing shares, target-structure design, and a phased migration approach
• Taking an active, hands-on role in shaping the Firm's Copilot strategy in partnership with the broader Copilot program owners

Job description

Venable LLP in Baltimore is seeking an Enterprise Applications Engineer III to lead the strategy and governance of Microsoft 365 services across Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. The role drives standards, architecture, and phased Purview initiatives to ensure secure, scalable collaboration across the firm.

The successful candidate will bring 5+ years of hands-on M365 experience, deep migration expertise, Copilot familiarity, and the ability to communicate complex options to