M365 Messaging & Collaboration Architect

Job ID: 768
Skills: Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Exchange Hybrid, Email Routing, Email Security Gateways, Microsoft Purview, Entra ID, Azure, DLP, Email Archiving, Proofpoint, Regulated Environments

M365 Messaging & Collaboration Architect
Hybrid - 4 days on-site p/w in London
Inside IR35 Contract

Are you the Microsoft 365 architect other engineers turn to when mail flow, security and collaboration all have to fit together? This M365 Messaging & Collaboration Architect contract puts you at the centre of a leading global financial services organisation's email and collaboration estate.

You'll be the hands-on point of contact for technical escalations and will shape project work as it arrives, including a consolidation of several email security gateways onto a single platform. It's a hybrid Exchange environment, mostly cloud with some mailboxes still on-prem, so depth across both matters.

What You'll Be Doing

• Acting as the technical point of contact and escalation for the messaging and collaboration team
• Advising on and designing Microsoft 365 solutions across Exchange Online, Purview, Entra and Azure
• Shaping email routing and mail flow across a hybrid Exchange environment
• Contributing to an email security gateway consolidation onto a single platform
• Integrating DLP and email archiving tooling with the platform
• Giving architectural input to project work as it comes in

What You'll Bring

• Extensive, recent experience architecting and supporting Microsoft 365 messaging and collaboration
• Deep hybrid Exchange experience, both Exchange Online and on-prem
• Strong understanding of email routing and email security gateways, from any vendor
• Knowledge of Purview, Entra and Azure, including DLP and email archiving integrations

Desirable: financial services or other regulated environments, Proofpoint, on-prem to Exchange Online migrations

Please note: this role needs four days a week on site in London.

Apply today with your CV for this M365 Messaging & Collaboration Architect contract role and we'll be in touch.

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Microsoft 365 Architect, Exchange Architect, Messaging Architect, Collaboration Architect, Office 365 Architect, Messaging Engineer, M365 Technical Lead