Employment Type: Direct Hire, Full-Time
Employment Setup: Hybrid (4 days onsite per week)
Location: Raleigh-Durham, NC (Research Triangle Park)
What impact you will make?
We are seeking a Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer who is proficient in a diverse set of technologies and tools necessary to design, lead implement and drive our client’s transformation to a modern, colleague orientated digital workplace. You will work within a global team of productivity and security peers to drive forward our colleague IT solutions, ensuring secure and seamless experience for end-users. This role is technical/hands on but requires strong stakeholder engagement with the business and key suppliers to help us redefine our client’s Digital Workplace platform services and secure solutions and will be seen as a ‘go to’ expert within technology community.
What you will be doing?
- Lead Engineering designs exceeding business requirements to meet Pearson's objectives.
- Provide guidance and expertise to project roadmaps
- Implement the medium-term and long-term Engineering strategy and design for Digital Workplace Services Team in conjunction with Pearson's CISO team.
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders to plan the future of Pearson's Digital Workplace.
- Assist in managing project deliverables to meet their objectives against quality (including security), budget control, time management.
- Design and innovate processes, standardization, and progressive governance practices
- Identity areas of improvement within the IT landscape, engineering solutions and guiding the execution of those designs through successful implementation.
- Drive innovation and security through implementing and enhancing automated deployments approaches.
- Practice continuous learning through attending company and/or industry training.
- Some UK and international travel may be required (infrequently)
What skills do you need to be successful?
- Engineering/Architectural knowledge and proven experience of developing, delivering and supporting Microsoft Azure, M365 Collaboration and Productivity, Office 365, and Endpoint security solutions (E5).
- Extensive product knowledge and experience of the M365 /O365 environment including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint/OneDrive and Viva.
- Strong knowledge and experience of developing GenAI capabilities including Copilot/Power platform
- Knowledge and experience with data centric controls (AIP, OME, B2B and B2C)
- Knowledge and experience of the Microsoft Defender Security Product Suite including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Sentinel.
- Engineering level experience of Microsoft Entra and Modern Auth.
- Some experience of working with modern coding and scripting skills e.g. PowerShell or Python
- Knowledge/experience of Azure DevOps service.
- It is desirable to have experience with non-O365 collaboration tools such as Google GSuite.
- It is desirable to have experience with PowerShell Scripting, Jira, Confluence, Sharegate, BitTitan.
