The Role The M365 Team Lead will be responsible for leading the Microsoft 365 (M365) team, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring the successful deployment, management, and optimization of M365 solutions. This role involves project leadership, complex problem-solving, budget management, and continuous process improvement to enhance team efficiency and productivity. Role Responsibilties: Not limited to M365 Strategy and Best Practices: Interpret internal and external issues, recommend solutions, and establish best practices in M365 technologies to drive continuous improvement and efficiency within the team. Make non-technical recommendations to improve the functionality and performance of the team. Occasionally contribute to the wider architectural strategy of the business. Complex Problem Solving: Utilize a broad perspective to identify and solve complex problems, drawing upon existing solutions, procedures, and expertise within M365. Act as an escalation point for the most challenging problems and take ownership through resolution, working with internal and external entities. Project Leadership: Lead and manage M365 projects, ensuring successful outcomes and guiding team members in resolving complex issues within the specialized discipline. Provide direction and support to project teams, fostering collaboration and accountability. Budget Management: Allocate time and resources to project activities and manage the costing of work. Escalate to management if project costs become misaligned, ensuring budget adherence. M365 Deployment and Administration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and configure M365 solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. Lead migrations of on-premise infrastructure to the M365 environment, identifying and resolving potential migration challenges to ensure minimal disruption to business operations. Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitor M365 systems, analyse performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot issues to optimize the M365 environment and ensure smooth operations. Resolve problems using existing solutions and define new solutions where required. Security and Compliance: Implement M365 security best practices, perform vulnerability assessments, and ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations. Define and enforce new standards to support the platform's security posture. Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Maintain thorough documentation of M365 architecture, configurations, and procedures. Contribute to knowledge sharing within the team to enhance overall capabilities and act as a resource for colleagues with less experience. Process Improvements: Identify opportunities to enhance processes, streamline workflows, and improve operational efficiency within the M365 domain. Lead initiatives to implement process improvements, ensuring continuous advancement of the team's capabilities. What BAE Systems are looking for, from you: Extensive experience in managing and deploying M365 solutions. Strong leadership and project management skills. Proven ability to solve complex problems and act as an escalation point. Excellent understanding of M365 security best practices and compliance requirements. Effective communication and documentation skills. Ability to manage budgets and resources effectively. Experience in process improvement and implementation of best practices. Security Requirements: SC This role will require the person to hold full Security Clearance (SC) prior to working onsite. You will need to obtain a BPSS check as part of this process. You must currently hold or be eligible and willing to obtain SC and you must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship and have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum 5 year period. If you are unsure as to whether you are eligible, please contact me to discuss. The Umbrella rate quoted above is the Gross Umbrella rate (i.e. the rate we pay to the Umbrella Company inclusive of ALL employment costs). Please note, the rate paid by the Umbrella will be less, as will a Limited Deemed rate or Agency PAYE rate. Please get in touch to discuss the rates via these different payment vehicles.