M365 and Entra Technical Architect – Frimley – 12 month contract – SC Cleared
About Your Role:
The M365 & Entra Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving the enterprise-wide Microsoft 365 and Entra ID (Azure AD) platforms to ensure secure, scalable, and efficient digital workplace and identity services. This role provides architectural leadership, defines standards, and ensures solutions align with organisational, security, and compliance objectives. The architect collaborates with cross functional teams to drive adoption of modern identity, security, and collaboration capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture for Microsoft 365 and Entra ID services, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy.
• Lead the design of secure identity, access, collaboration, and endpoint management solutions across M365 and Entra.
• Provide architectural governance, technical assurance, and design review of M365/Entra solutions delivered internally or by third party partners.
• Develop and maintain standards, patterns, and roadmaps for identity, security, and collaboration technologies.
• Advise on and implement Zero Trust principles across identity, endpoints, and data.
• Act as the subject matter expert for identity lifecycle management, authentication standards, conditional access, and modern access models.
• Lead complex migrations, transformation programmes, and integrations involving M365 and Entra ID.
• Provide technical leadership on security, compliance, and data protection within the M365 ecosystem.
About You:
As an experienced M365 Architect, your skills and experience may include;
• Deep understanding of Microsoft 365 architecture including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, and Purview.
• Expert knowledge of Entra ID concepts including Conditional Access, MFA, PIM, identity lifecycle, hybrid identity, and identity protection.
• Strong working knowledge of Zero Trust, modern security models, and Microsoft Security stack integrations.
• Understanding of endpoint management frameworks including Intune, compliance policy design, Autopilot, and device governance.
• Familiarity with modern authentication protocols including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, and certificate?based authentication.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and data governance within Microsoft 365 (DLP, retention, eDiscovery).
• Understanding of Microsoft Graph, automation tooling, and API?based platform integrations.
• Solid awareness of enterprise networking concepts and their interactions with cloud services.
• Knowledge of service management frameworks (e.g., ITIL) and operational governance models.
• Awareness of cloud cost management, licensing optimisation, and platform lifecycle planning..