Modern Work & Security Transformation Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and showcase the Microsoft 365 Modern Work and Security functionalities to potential clients.

• Facilitate customer workshops, discovery sessions, and strategic discussions with stakeholders ranging from technical teams to executive leadership.

• Collect and document business, functional, technical, security, compliance, and migration specifications.

• Generate current-state evaluations, target-state architectures, strategic proposals, roadmaps, options assessments, and migration strategies.

• Create high-caliber architecture and solution designs that can be transferred to multi-disciplinary delivery teams for effective implementation.

• Provide technical leadership across extensive customer programs, coordinating architectural decisions across productivity, collaboration, security, compliance, identity, endpoint, migration, and UC workstreams, while engaging subject matter experts for specialized design input when necessary.

• Support technical governance, design assurance, dependency management, and risk resolution throughout customer engagements.

• Aid in crafting persuasive proposals, responses to tenders, discovery reports, business cases, and statements of work.

• Estimate delivery efforts and assist in solution costing activities across intricate, multi-phase engagements.

• Ensure all customer-facing outputs adhere to CPS quality standards.

• Advocate for CPS as a recognized authority in Microsoft Modern Work and Security through blogs, webinars, events, conferences, and client interactions.

• Contribute to internal standards, methodologies, and reusable resources to enhance the consistency and quality of delivery.

• Lead the creation, development, and evolution of the CPS Modern Work and Security service portfolio.

• Define and uphold service propositions covering Microsoft 365 strategy, tenant design, Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migration, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Viva, Copilot, Intune, Entra ID, Defender, Purview, UC, and adoption programs, with assistance from specialized SMEs where appropriate.

• Collaborate with the Head of Practice to develop packaged offerings with clearly defined scope, deliverables, commercial models, assumptions, risks, and pricing structures.

• Work closely with Sales, Marketing, and Delivery teams to create go-to-market strategies and supporting materials.

• Identify emerging Microsoft technologies, market trends, and customer requirements, translating them into new service opportunities.

• Support pipeline development and business growth through technical sales engagement, opportunity qualification, and executive-level solution positioning.

• Contribute to strategic partnerships with Microsoft and other technology vendors.

• Develop repeatable delivery frameworks, migration strategies, architectural patterns, and best-practice guidance to enhance scalability and profitability across the practice.

⛳️ Requirements

• Specific Role Requirements

• A self-motivated individual eager to enhance both personal and company knowledge and skills, exhibiting a 'make it happen' attitude.

• Senior-level experience with a minimum of 5 years in Microsoft 365 transformation architecture or delivery roles.

• Experience interacting with technical leads, program sponsors, senior IT leadership, and executive stakeholders on client accounts.

• Willingness to travel as required, including occasional international assignments.

• Previous experience in consulting, as a Microsoft partner, or in another client-facing transformation environment is advantageous.

• Technical Attributes

• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft 365 and the broader Microsoft Cloud, with the ability to engage confidently in enterprise architecture discussions across complex customer environments.

• Experience shaping and supporting large-scale Microsoft 365 transformation initiatives, including migrations from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 across mail, files, collaboration, device management, identity, security, and governance.

• In-depth knowledge and practical delivery experience in selected Modern Work technology areas, including SharePoint, intranets, content services, collaboration platforms, Teams, OneDrive, or migration delivery.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, identity architecture, access management, authentication, conditional access, identity governance, and hybrid identity dependencies.

• Proficiency in Microsoft security technologies such as Microsoft Defender, Intune, endpoint management, device compliance, security baselines, and Zero Trust principles.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview, including information protection, data loss prevention, retention, records management, eDiscovery, insider risk, and compliance governance.

• Experience in designing secure, scalable tenant architectures, including target operating models, platform governance, administrative models, lifecycle management, and service transition considerations.

• Involvement in migration delivery, including discovery, data analysis, migration design, pilot planning, cutover strategy, coexistence, rollback planning, and post-migration optimization.

• Broad understanding of Google Workspace services and their Microsoft 365 counterparts, such as Gmail, Google Drive, Shared Drives, Google Groups, Google Sites, Google Forms, and Google Workspace security models.

• Knowledge of migration tools and methodologies, including ShareGate, AvePoint Fly, BitTitan MigrationWiz, or equivalent enterprise migration platforms.

• Ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional technical teams delivering productivity, collaboration, migration, security, endpoint, compliance, and Unified Communications workstreams, with clear escalation to specialized SMEs as needed.

• Awareness of the evolving landscape of Microsoft Cloud services, including Power Platform, Copilot, Copilot Studio, automation, AI readiness, data readiness, and responsible AI governance considerations.

• Understanding of Microsoft Teams Phone, Teams Rooms, and Unified Communications architecture, sufficient to provide governance and direction across UC workstreams.

• Knowledge of Azure infrastructure, networking, integration, PKI, security, and the supporting technologies necessary for delivering resilient Microsoft cloud architectures.

• Experience in public sector or other regulated environments is advantageous.

• Personal Attributes

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities, with the capacity to clearly articulate complex technical subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confident facilitation abilities across workshops, service reviews, design discussions, and executive-level dialogues.

• Capable of working effectively as part of a specialist team while also providing leadership, guidance, and mentorship to others.

🏝️ Benefits

• **Current at the time of writing. Subject to change.**

• 9 Day Fortnight (compression of 10 working days into 9 to allow for a day off every other Friday)

• PMI with Vitality Health

• Medical Cash Plan with Medicash

• Life Assurance (Death in Service) with YuLife

• Employee Assistance Programme

• 25 days holiday (plus all Public Holidays) – increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years, and to 28 days after 5 years

• A day off for your birthday

• Access to Costco Membership

• Salary Sacrifice Scheme, applicable to:

• Workplace Pension here

• Employer contribution is currently 5.5% of qualifying salary (above the legislated minimum and will increase if certain business targets are met)

• Employee contribution is 4% of qualifying salary (the legislated minimum, but you can choose to increase)

• EV Car Schemes

• Discounted Gym Membership

• Cycle Schemes

• Home & Tech discounts for IKEA and Curry PC World

• Holiday Exchange Scheme: purchase up to 10 additional days per year and sell up to 5.

• Additionally, these are just some of our cultural benefits:

• Quarterly and annual star performer awards – voted for by your peers and colleagues

• Spot Awards starting at £25, to instantly recognize excellence in you and your colleagues

• Annual professional and personal training budget to support your Professional Development Plan (PDP)

• Career Development Frameworks

• Reward schemes designed to acknowledge your hard work and make life more affordable.

• Monthly employee experience/engagement surveys

• Quarterly company meetings

• At least one, typically the kick-off in March/April, will usually be held in person.

• The others are conducted as Town Halls.

• Duration of in-person company meetings is generally 2 or 3 days, with the location changing annually.

• Social/team-building events organized by our exceptional Employee Forum

• Regular, meaningful one-on-ones

• Long service recognition at 5, 10, 15, 20 years and beyond

• Award-winning culture recognized as a Great Place to Work™ from Nov 25 to Nov 26; Best Workplaces for Development™ 2026, Best Workplaces for Wellbeing™ 2026, Best Workplaces for Women™ 2025, Best Workplaces in Tech™ 2025