M365 Tenant, Teams & Messaging Administrator - AVP

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

1d•$115,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a M365 Tenant, Teams & Messaging Administrator - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this position, you will join the Operations L3 support team, playing a critical role in maintaining service stability, resolving complex incidents, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of the Microsoft 365 platform. You will contribute to the team by leveraging your expertise in Microsoft 365, Entra, Agent 365, Exchange, and Proofpoint, with a particular emphasis on automation and security.

Requirements

Considerable experience in M365 Product Suite including Teams, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online
Hands-on administration of Microsoft Azure / Entra and Microsoft 365 services, including a deep understanding of Entra ID synchronization and access management
Advanced scripting skills, particularly in PowerShell, with the ability to automate and optimize operational processes
Relevant Microsoft certifications such as M365 Fundamentals, M365 Security Administrator, and/or Enterprise Administrator Expert
MS-700 (Managing Microsoft Teams) certification or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Microsoft 365 technologies including Hybrid identity Management , creating, and managing Conditional Access Policy, Role Based Access RBAC model within in Azure
Background in financial services or other highly regulated environments, with an understanding of associated compliance requirements
Knowledge of hybrid identity management, including multi-layered Active Directory (AD) synchronization scenarios

Responsibilities

Provision of technical support for the service management function to resolve more complex issues for a specific client of group of clients.
Develop the support model and service offering to improve the service to customers and stakeholders.
Execution of preventative maintenance tasks on hardware and software and utilisation of monitoring tools/metrics to identify, prevent and address potential issues and ensure optimal performance.
Maintenance of a knowledge base containing detailed documentation of resolved cases for future reference, self-service opportunities and knowledge sharing.
Analysis of system logs, error messages and user reports to identify the root causes of hardware, software and network issues, and providing a resolution to these issues by fixing or replacing faulty hardware components, reinstalling software, or applying configuration changes.
Automation, monitoring enhancements, capacity management, resiliency, business continuity management, front office specific support and stakeholder management.
Identification and remediation or raising, through appropriate process, of potential service impacting risks and issues.
Proactively assess support activities implementing automations where appropriate to maintain stability and drive efficiency.
Actively tune monitoring tools, thresholds, and alerting to ensure issues are known when they occur.
Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.