Senior M365 Architect

Summary

Join Planet Technologies, a leading Microsoft services provider, as a Senior M365 Architect and contribute to impactful projects benefiting the public sector. This role blends technical expertise, leadership, and sales skills. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, and support of enterprise cloud solutions, leveraging your deep knowledge of M365 platforms. The ideal candidate will guide customers and colleagues, offering innovative solutions. This position requires extensive experience in M365 and related technologies, along with strong communication and collaboration skills. Planet Technologies offers competitive salaries and benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in M365 and broad technology expertise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proactively respond to internal and external technical communities
• Ability to implement related technologies and understand their dependencies in complex enterprise environments
• Ability to proactively collaborate across internal, customer, and key partner teams
• Thought leader on solving problems in complex environments
• Effectively articulate escalations and communicate progress to stakeholders
• Has ownership stake in the successful technical delivery of complex projects in large enterprise environments
• Has owner stake in the delivery of scope while assisting in managing customer expectations
• Microsoft 365: Subject matter expert for Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and other M365 workloads
• Microsoft Security: Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Intune, and Entra ID
• Microsoft Compliance: Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention and Compliance Center Experience including – Litigation Hold, Retention, and eDiscovery
• Exchange: Must have real-world, hands-on experience delivering messaging and collaboration solutions utilizing Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 within large complex environments. This includes extensive hybrid and third-party migration experience
• Active Directory : Must have real-world experience helping to managing and maintaining AD, GPO's, On-Premises Active Directory Migrations
• Certifications: At least two active certifications in area(s) of expertise
• Citizenship: Candidates must be US Citizens as this work entails working with State and Local Government Agencies
• Travel: 0 - 25%

Responsibilities

• Surface and analyze customer business requirements in presales conversations and project work
• Lead presales calls and translate requirements into Statement of Work and architectural design
• Design, construct, configure, and maintain all facets of a Microsoft 365 tenant
• Plan and execute an end-to-end implementation of M365 infrastructure workloads
• Maintain a thorough understanding of existing and emerging M365 and related core technologies
• Provide leadership in security and compliance practices, as they relate to M365
• Proactively help customers make more complex decisions around features and capabilities
• Identify, scope, and refer opportunities for additional sales for Planet provided services and offerings
• Lead internal technical knowledge sharing communities and present new technologies
• Provide process improvements or standardization on elements that will have broad impact
• Lead and provide strategic vision to large technical teams on complex project

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate

Benefits

Salaries for Architects at Planet Technologies range from $140,000 and $225,000