Lead Engineer - Productivity Platforms - Infrastructure

WesBanco Bank, Inc. • Bowie, MD

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About The Position

The Lead Engineer – Microsoft 365, SQL & Power Platform is responsible for the engineering leadership, delivery, and operational maturity of the bank’s core collaboration, reporting, and data platform services. This role leads a team of 3–4 engineers while remaining hands-on with complex technical initiatives, escalations, and platform improvements. Primary focus areas include Microsoft 365 workloads, Power BI and Power Platform enablement, and SQL Server platform support. The role blends technical leadership, ticket escalation, and cross‑functional collaboration to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable platforms in a regulated financial services environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience supporting enterprise collaboration, data, or productivity platforms, required.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in leading engineers or serving as a technical lead, required.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 services, Power BI, and SQL Server.
• Working knowledge of Entra ID / Azure AD, identity, and access controls.
• Strong understanding of Azure concepts: compute, storage, networking, IAM, policies, resource groups.
• Familiarity with AWS fundamentals, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC.
• Hands‑on experience creating Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
• Basic experience with ARM or Bicep templates.
• Proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of cloud security architecture, identity and access management, and network security principles.
• Strong communication and analytical thinking.
• Ability to work in collaborative, cross‑functional teams.
• Willingness to learn and grow within a regulated financial environment.
• Banking is a highly regulated industry and you will be expected to acquire and maintain a proficiency in the bank’s policies and procedures, and adhere to all laws, rules and regulations that are applicable to your conduct and the work you will be performing. You will also be expected to complete all assigned compliance training in a timely manner.

Nice To Haves

• Exposures to Power Apps and Power Automate solutions is preferred.
• Experience operating in regulated environments (financial services, healthcare, or similar) preferred.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Office 365, preferred.
• Microsoft 365 Security Administration, preferred.
• Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements, preferred.
• Enabling Office 365 Services, preferred.
• Microsoft Certified Professional, preferred.
• MCSE: Productivity Solutions Expert, preferred.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, preferred.
• Microsoft Specialist: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, preferred.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Charter Member, preferred.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert: Server Infrastructure, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads, coaches, and mentors a team of 3–4 platform engineers.
• Provides hands-on technical leadership and set engineering standards and best practices.
• Acts as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Partners closely with architecture, data, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Contributes to platform roadmaps and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leads engineering and operational support for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive for Business, and Entra ID (Azure AD), including hybrid identity.
• Oversees tenant governance, lifecycle management, configuration standards, and feature adoption.
• Ensures collaboration services are secure, resilient, and aligned with organizational risk posture.
• Partners with security and compliance teams on identity, access, and data protection controls.
• Provides technical leadership for enterprise Power BI deployments.
• Supports and optimizes capacity planning and performance management, dataset refresh processes and data model optimization, and workspace design, usage monitoring, and governance standards.
• Partners with data and business teams to enable scalable, self-service analytics.
• Serves as platform lead for SQL Server environments supporting reporting, analytics, and collaboration solutions.
• Partners with DBAs and infrastructure teams on availability, performance, and capacity planning, backup, recovery, and resiliency strategies, and platform lifecycle management and modernization initiatives.
• Supports SQL integrations with Power BI and other enterprise reporting tools.
• Acts as a senior escalation point for platform-level incidents and service disruptions.
• Participates in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Maintains platform documentation, operational procedures, and engineering standards.
• Supports audits, risk assessments, and control requirements at the platform governance level.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Benefits

• 22 days of PTO (Paid Time Off)
• 5 days of STD (Short Term Disability)
• 11 annual paid holidays
• 1 float holiday
• medical
• dental
• vision
• Health Care Flexible Spending
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending
• Transportation Fringe Benefit Plan
• Group Life
• Long Term Disability
• Optional Life
• access to voluntary benefit products such as Cancer, Term & Universal Life, Accident, Short-Term Disability and Critical Illness policies, and other ancillary benefit products
• 401(k) with employee match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed