Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer in Leeds

Overview

At New Day, we\'re on a mission to help people move forward with credit.

We are looking for a Senior Microsoft 365 Engineer to help shape and evolve our modern workplace platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role responsible for designing, delivering and optimising Microsoft 365 services across the business.

You\'ll work across identity, endpoint management, collaboration, security and AI-powered efficiency tools, ensuring colleagues have a secure, reliable and modern digital workplace experience.

You\'ll join a team that values engineering excellence, automation, continuous improvement and innovation, helping New Day maximise the value of its Microsoft technology investments.

• What You\'ll Be Doing
• Design & Engineering: Design, build and implement Microsoft 365 solutions aligned to business and technology requirements.

Lead the development and continuous improvement of New Day\'s Modern Workplace capabilities.

Deliver solutions across Windows, mac OS, i OS and Android devices, including both physical and virtual environments.

Design and deploy endpoint management solutions using Microsoft Intune and related technologies.

Develop and maintain operating system deployment, upgrade and lifecycle management strategies.

Implement automated deployment and application packaging solutions.

Create reusable engineering patterns, automation and standards to improve service delivery and operational efficiency.

• Microsoft 365 Platform

Ownership: Manage and enhance Microsoft 365 services, including: Microsoft 365 Apps, Intune, Exchange Online, Share Point Online, One Drive, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Pages, Power BI).

Support the deployment, monitoring and governance of Microsoft AI services, ensuring compliance with internal standards and policies.

Manage Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and associated telephony services.

Review platform licensing and identify optimisation and cost-saving opportunities.

• Security & Compliance: Manage Microsoft Defender configurations, including Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rules and exclusions.

Implement and support Conditional Access policies and device-based access controls.

Support identity and access management across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID and Entra Connect.

Enhance Microsoft Purview capabilities, including Audit, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and e Discovery.

Ensure services align with security, compliance and governance requirements.

• Service Reliability & Continuous

Improvement: Act as an escalation point for complex Microsoft service incidents and platform issues.

Monitor Microsoft service health and communicate business-impacting incidents to stakeholders.

Provide ongoing platform support, troubleshooting and optimisation.

Define and document operational standards and support processes.

Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance, resilience, automation and user experience.

Drive awareness of upcoming Microsoft product changes and ensure successful adoption across business and technology teams.

What We\'re Looking For

Essential Experience

• Significant experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise Microsoft 365 environments.
• Strong expertise across Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365 administration.
• Experience delivering Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions across both Windows and mac OS environments.
• Strong understanding of Conditional Access, identity security and endpoint compliance controls.
• Experience supporting Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Share Point Online and One Drive.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Defender security capabilities.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview, including Audit, DLP and e Discovery.
• Strong understanding of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and Entra Connect.
• Experience with operating system deployment, device lifecycle management and endpoint engineering.
• Proficiency in Power Shell and/or command-line scripting.
• Experience with application packaging and automated software deployment.
• Knowledge of networking, authentication, authorisation and cloud security concepts.
• Experience working within Agile engineering environments using tools such as Git Hub and Jira.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable Experience

• Experience developing and managing Microsoft Copilot Agents.
• Share Point migration experience.
• Experience with Dynamics 365.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Backup and recovery services.
• Experience deploying and supporting Microsoft Teams desk phones.
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as CIS or NIST.
• Microsoft certifications across Microsoft 365, Security or Modern Workplace technologies.

Why Join New Day?

At New Day, you\'ll help shape the future of workplace technology for one of the UK\'s leading Fin Tech businesses.

You\'ll have the opportunity to work with the latest Microsoft technologies, including AI-powered productivity platforms, while contributing to a culture that values innovation, ownership and continuous improvement.

If you\'re passionate about modern workplace engineering, endpoint management, security and Microsoft\'s evolving technology ecosystem, we\'d love to hear from you.

Our Diversity & Inclusion

We value all types of diversity.

We\'re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture.

We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work.

We don\'t discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics or identities.

We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process.

Tell us if you need accommodations: We\'ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.

• Permanent
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