M365 Architect

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of M365 Architect. This is a contract role and the initial engagement will be 3 months.

Working within a fast-growing, dynamic and talented team of Microsoft Cloud Consultants and Architects, the role requires you to be a strong team player, highly motivated and passionate about Microsoft Cloud technologies and capabilities. Bringing to the team, both your own experience and attributes but learning and gaining many more, through helping to drive and deliver key strategic practice initiatives within the Secure Modern Work capability team. Duties of the role include all key consultative aspects such as driving, supporting and overseeing assessments, health checks, strategies, roadmaps, solution design and implementation, as well as supporting presales activities, such as proposal, RFP and tender responses and SoW definitions.

Requirements

At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career. We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area. If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

• Identity & Authentication architecture models
  • Cloud Network & Connectivity fundamentals

• Enterprise Mobility + Security

• Office 365 Productivity & Collaboration
  ▪ Exchange, Teams, Yammer & Viva
  • M365 licensing fundamentals
  • M365 service design and models
  • M365 readiness, remediation and implementation plans

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.