Senior Office 365 Architect

Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as a

Senior Office 365 Architect. 

In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that benefit our country.

In this role you will join a Team of 365 Architects who are responsible for the implementation of hybrid and tenant to tenant migration experience with enterprise M365 solutions including assessment, design, implementation, testing, and technical documentation for the project.  Success in this role requires deep expertise in the technical deployment of Microsoft 365 solutions, and the ability to work hands-on with the technologies for our customers.  In addition to technical acumen, creativity, independence, and the ability to manage multiple projects working directly with customers will be essential for success.

Responsibilities

• Surface and analyze customer business requirements.
• Translate requirements into an Architectural design and influence the deployment of key infrastructure components
• Design, construct, configure, and maintain all facets of a Microsoft 365 tenant
• Plan and execute an end-to-end implementation of Microsoft 365 infrastructure workloads
• Maintain a thorough understanding of existing and emerging Microsoft 365 and related core technologies
• Participate in presales calls and activities
• Provide leadership across practice areas
• Help internal sales team provide solutions to customers requirements
• Proactively help customers make more complex decisions around features and capabilities
• Identify, scope, and refer opportunities for additional sales for Planet provided services and offerings
• Lead internal technical communities and present new technologies
• Provide process improvement or standardization on elements that will have broad impact
• Lead and provide strategic vision to large technical teams on complex projects

Skills Required

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proactively respond to internal and external technical communities
• Ability to implement related technologies and understand their dependencies in complex enterprise environments
• Ability to proactively collaborate across internal, customer, and key partner teams
• Thought leader on solving problems in complex environments
• Effectively articulate escalations and communicate progress to stakeholders
• Has ownership stake in the successful technical delivery of complex projects in large enterprise environments
• Has ownership stake in the delivery of the scope while assisting in managing customer expectations

Essentials

• Exchange: Must have real-world, hands-on experience delivering messaging and collaboration solutions utilizing Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 within large complex environments. This includes extensive hybrid and third-party migration experience.
• Microsoft 365: Subject matter expert for Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange Online, Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Teams Voice, and other O365 workloads.
• Microsoft Security Stack: Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Entra ID, Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention and Compliance Center Experience including – Litigation Hold, Retention, and eDiscovery.
• Active Directory: Must have real-world experience helping to managing and maintaining AD, GPO's, On-Premises Active Directory Migrations.
• Teams Voice experience is a plus.

Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations.  Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies.

Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Federal Agency Clearance Requirements may require up to a 10-year background investigation - US Citizenship (clearable) is required.

Salaries for Architects at Planet Technologies range from $140,000 and $225,000. Several factors will impact final pay offered to a successful candidate including but not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, clearance level, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, training, etc.