Office-365 Consultant Architect

About Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 50,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognised for its consulting, digital services and solutions. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. In 2024, the Group generated revenues of €5.8 billion.
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What you'll be doing:

1. Be the architecture lead, providing mentorship and guidance to technical resources.
2. Creating architectural standards to delivery M365 solutions to our end clients
3. Create deep subject matter expertise within the Practice and nurture talent across the grades.
4. Working as part of the Practice team to drive our strategic partnership with Microsoft to support and enable innovation, investment and growth.
5. Cultivate and enable a professional services culture and discipline, where the teams influence, sell and deliver specialist solutions and take responsibility for self-learning, career management and opportunities.
6. Work directly with clients to present and deliver Microsoft 365 Solutions
7. Lead Copilot readiness assessments and M365 landscape analysis
8. Architect end-to-end Copilot integration across workload
9. Customize Copilot Studio solutions (custom GPTs, bots)
10. Create governance models for Copilot lifecycle management

What you’ll bring:

1. Demonstrable experience in M365 implementation with a technical background and experience in architecture
2. Demonstrable experience leading delivery teams, developing and mentoring people.
3. Demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft solutions and application to client strategy.
4. Strong communication and leadership, with experience in developing metrics around utilization, Great Place to Work, contribution, productivity and GPS scores.

Core Technical Knowledge Required:

1. M365 Core Services (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive)
2. Microsoft 365 Copilot (end-user, admin & semantic index)
3. Copilot Studio (custom Copilot & GPT integration)
4. Power Platform integration (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI)
5. Microsoft Graph API
6. Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access
7. M365 Security & Compliance (DLP, sensitivity labels)
8. Microsoft Viva + Copilot integration
9. Semantic Index configuration & Microsoft Search
10. Governance & Change Management
11. Azure IaaS (virtual machines, storage, networking, security).
12. Azure Governance (Blueprints, policies, tagging, cost management)
13. Active Directory\Entra ID (Azure AD, Azure AD DS, on premises AD DS).

Total Experience Expected: 10-14 years

Certifications:

1. Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert (Core foundation)
2. Identity and Access Administrator (For Entra ID/CA)
3. Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution (Copilot Studio & GPT)
4. Power Platform Solution Architect (Copilot integration use cases)

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.

All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.