Microsoft 365 Enterprise Architect – (Hybrid, Columbia SC)
The Microsoft 365 Enterprise Architect serves as the accountable owner for the design, governance, security, and daily operations of the organization’s Microsoft 365 platform. This role provides strategic and hands‑on technical leadership to ensure Microsoft 365 services are secure, compliant, resilient, and aligned with business objectives in a regulated environment.
The architect defines the Microsoft 365 target architecture, establishes tenant‑wide standards and guardrails, and partners closely with Business, Security, Compliance, Legal, and Infrastructure teams to enable modern, secure, and efficient collaboration at enterprise scale.
What You’ll Do
- Own the end‑to‑end architecture, governance, security, and operations of the Microsoft 365 platform, ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Define and maintain tenant‑wide standards, roadmaps, and guardrails across Microsoft 365 services, including identity, collaboration, endpoint management, information protection, and automation.
- Lead security, compliance, and risk controls for Microsoft 365 by partnering with Security, Compliance, Legal, and Internal Audit teams to meet audit and regulatory expectations.
- Provide hands‑on operational ownership, serving as the primary escalation point for service health, complex incidents, governance challenges, and platform optimization.
- Drive automation‑first operations, license optimization, and platform efficiency while enabling secure and scalable adoption of collaboration and low‑code capabilities across the enterprise.
- Senior‑level experience designing and operating enterprise‑scale Microsoft 365 environments, with deep hands‑on expertise across core M365 services and governance.
- Strong background in security, identity, and compliance within a regulated environment, including Zero Trust principles and audit readiness.
- Proven ability to own platform outcomes, balancing security, reliability, usability, and cost optimization.
- Hands‑on experience with automation and scripting (PowerShell, Microsoft Graph) and an automation‑first operational mindset.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across IT, Security, Compliance, and business stakeholders and translate technical risk into business context.
About Us
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank provides financing, as well as technology and other value-added services, to association partners so they can lend to rural residents and agricultural operations of all sizes. We take pride in investing in our employees, our partners and our community.
Find out more on AgFirst.com, and follow us on LinkedIn!
Skills Required
- Senior-level experience designing and operating enterprise-scale Microsoft 365 environments, with deep hands-on expertise across core M365 services and governance.
- Strong background in security, identity, and compliance within a regulated environment, including Zero Trust principles and audit readiness.
- Proven ability to own platform outcomes, balancing security, reliability, usability, and cost optimization.
- Hands-on experience with automation and scripting (PowerShell, Microsoft Graph) and an automation-first operational mindset.
- Excellent communication skills, with ability to partner across IT, Security, Compliance, and business stakeholders and translate technical risk into business context.
What We Do
As part of the nationwide Farm Credit system, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank has been lending financial and business support to agriculture and rural America for more than a century. As a $40.4 billion company, we are prepared to meet tomorrow with a progressive mindset and a passionate workforce by continually adapting to changes in the technology and business landscape. AgFirst provides wholesale funding, cutting-edge technology and a range of support services to local agricultural and rural lenders in 15 states and Puerto Rico. These lenders provide loans to rural home and land buyers and to agricultural operations of all sizes. Our cooperative business model ensures we share our partners’ values, goals and vision for the future. Our employees come from a wide range of backgrounds to advance our mission of serving agriculture and rural America – to Impact More every day. We place a premium on our employees’ unique skills and perspectives and invest in them by offering excellent benefits, competitive pay, flexible work schedules, leadership development opportunities, a corporate incentive plan and more.
