Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a M365 Modern Workplace Specialist for an initial 6 month contract on a rate of £400-£415/day (outside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
Hunt out new Modern Workplace opportunities (teamwork, collaboration, insights, remote working, security, compliance, meeting and calling) within the organisation by identifying and engaging with key business and technical contacts, understanding customers' business and technology priorities, governance requirements, and processes. For example, enabling a unified search experience across all our systems.
Take identified business and technology challenges and work with stakeholders sell the solution - enabling them to understand the value of implementing a Modern Workplace solution.
Work with the EE product owner, technical architect, and SMEs to prioritise, design, build, and implement solutions using the M365 stack (and complimentary technologies where appropriate such as ServiceNow and AWS) to solve identified business challenges.
Identify ad-hoc tasks which could be automated or improved using PowerAutomate/PowerApps/PowerBI (for example generation of invoice emails by our finance team). Architect solutions using the M365 toolbox to remove manual repetitive tasks allowing our colleagues to focus on high value tasks
Make improvements to the organisation's corporate systems that contribute to the EE vision of empowering and enabling staff to do their job without dependency on IT colleagues
Identify areas of overlap between M365 and Legacy products in use at the organisation (eg Egress, Intranet). Architect and implement solutions which provide a better and more flexible user experience whilst simultaneously lowering operational costs and complexity.
To provide technical input, advice, and mentoring to the Employee Enablement team, ensuring alignment with broader strategic architectural direction.
Act as a conduit between Employee Enablement governance groups such as Architecture Steering Group and the Design Authority.
Help define and refine best practices, standards and architectural principles
Essential Skills:
Demonstrable experience of building solutions using PowerAutomate/PowerApps/PowerBI/Bots/AppStudio/OneDrive/SharePoint and other M365 components to bring value to business processes.
Experience of working with departments and analysing their workflows and how we can help them improve
Experience of working in a similarly sized (~1300 users) environment with Enterprise/Government grade controls and expectations
Experience delivering strategies and designs including technical design, governance and risk considerations, and training requirements. Ability to present proposals to all levels of the organisation from users to Executive management.
Experience of working within a mature agile team where trust, communication, collaboration, forward thinking, workload visualisation and constructive challenge are key attributes
Demonstrate the art of the possible to internal customers who resist change.
Be an evangelist for our chosen technology to bring stakeholders on-side
Experience performing full system tuning including Servers, application, network, and client device
Previous experience of migrating on-premises file storage to the Microsoft 365 cloud environment
Experience of establishing appropriate security, eg SSO, two factor authentication, and appropriate data-backup
Desirable Skills:
Knowledge and experience of VFQ/Agile techniques including Kanban
Experience of the wider Microsoft 365 infrastructures
Experience of using analysis and reporting tools such as the Microsoft migration assessment tool, ShareGate, and/or Epiq eGorvern
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.