Microsoft Architect - M&A Experience - Outside IR35

Microsoft Architect - Hybrid Working - Outside IR35

Our client, a global Insurance firm, are currently looking to hire a Microsoft Architect to join the team on an Outside IR35 contract basis. This role would be hybrid working with the client site based in London.

This Architect role forms part of a dedicated IT M&A Integration team that is responsible for the delivery of an international integration programme. The role will involve working on multiple projects to act as a hands-on Architect, providing design support as well as an element of engineering across on premises infrastructure & Microsoft cloud technologies.

Key Experience:

• M&A project experience
• M365 Tenant to Tenant migrations
• Messaging experience i.e. Email process, mail flow issues

Role requirements:

• Extensive experience in an infrastructure cloud architecture position working primarily with Microsoft Azure & M365 technologies
• Experience of architecting solutions to meet security and governance requirements
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills, being able to document solutions clearly and a high and low level, and present to governing boards prior to technical implementation
• Ability to assist with the technical delivery of solutions for multiple projects maintaining the agreed solution design
• Experience of working within ITIL change management governance
• Ability to lead and provide guidance to infrastructure engineers
• Excellent communication skills, to be highly collaborative with the current team, management structure and business leaders

Technical Skills Required:

• Experience with corporate acquisition projects involving cross forest application & data migration
• Recent experience of performing cross tenant M365 migrations
• Experience migrating workloads to Azure, or between datacentres
• Azure IaaS & PaaS architecture, including security and networking principles
• Experience in Exchange Hybrid Mode environments, good understanding of M365 client-side requirements as well as backend
• Good understanding of networking technologies, 3rd party firewalls, routing protocols, Azure based networking

Technical Skills Desired:

• 3rd party M365 migration tool experience
• Experience with 3rd party email gateways such as Mimecast
• Experience with Endpoint Manager/Intune, Windows Autopilot
• Azure AD/Entra ID experience including Azure AD B2B, Conditional Access Policies and App Registrations
• Power Platform migration experience
• Citrix experience
• Azure or M365 certified
• Architecture framework experience, e.g. TOGAF certified

If this role would be a good fit for your skills and experience, please apply!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age