Lead Modern Workplace Engineer
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Sep 2, 2026
What you’ll do day-to-day
- Own the design, delivery, and lifecycle core Microsoft 365 collaboration services (SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and OneDrive), spanning architecture, configuration governance, roadmap planning, and escalation-level troubleshooting.
- Design and maintain access and data controls across Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Purview (Conditional Access and compliance policies), collaborating with governance teams such as InfoSec, Legal, and Compliance, and with business-facing application development teams.
- Create automation with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph to drive policy deployment, configuration consistency, proactive remediation, and operational efficiency across M365 and adjacent end-user services, building tools that reduce manual effort for the EUC team and the service desk.
- Monitor the evolution of the Microsoft ecosystem and best practices—such as enterprise security, tenant governance, and collaboration lifecycle management—translating them into standards for the firm’s environment.
- Independently lead projects end to end, scoping and sequencing the work, coordinating dependencies across teams, and driving them to completion as the accountable owner.
- Partner with teams across the firm to identify, design, and deliver new technologies and capabilities within the end-user space, including AI and Copilot enablement, enterprise mobility (MDM), and supporting development teams that build against Microsoft Graph and M365 services.
- Serve as a subject matter expert escalation point for complex technical issues, providing knowledge, guidance, and mentoring to the service desk and operations teams that directly support the firm’s end users.