Job offer Microsoft Collaboration Lead Engineer

JOB TITLE - Microsoft Collaboration Lead Engineer (E)

SALARY - £69,000- £85,250

LOCATION - Edinburgh or Leeds

HOURS - Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.



At Lloyds Banking Group we're embracing change and creating a simpler, more responsive, digitally-led organisation. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future.



Our colleagues are at the heart of our digital transformation, adopting progressive technologies and agile practices to support us on our journey to build the bank of the future. With their help, we're serving more than 16 million online customers and transforming the way Britain banks.

The Modern Workplace Platform is pivotal to accelerating the Group's transformation agenda & adoption of cloud native capabilities. Join a diverse and hardworking team to deliver and support Collaboration tools to allow our colleagues to interact with each other quickly and be productive through a number of ways.



Our team is based across the UK and the technology is predominately using Microsoft cloud-based services delivering excellence by way of improving colleague efficiency


We're looking for individuals who are willing to adopt a culture of continuous change and improvement; who can help us continue on our journey towards a modern digital workplace. You'll challenge the existing processes and ways of working, with a view to eliminating waste; seeking to boost the colleague user experience



You'll support the detailed technical assessment and business understanding of changes being deployed within Collaboration Lab, ensuring that decisions accurately balance business needs with technical requirements, supplier performance and risk considerations.



Championing the alignment of processes to automation and evergreen principles being introduced as we bring to bear more cloud-based services working with the wider team to embrace the opportunities presented by the new technology of the modern workspace and continually improve the service.



What will this role entail?



Leading the implementing and maintaining solutions on SharePoint On Premise (2016+), SharePoint Online, Viva Suite and M365 Copilot.
Ensuring AvePoint governance and backup/recovery toolsets perform to the customer needs
Taking business requirements and looking for Collaborative solutions to meet the requirements, creating designs, leading through governance and implementing, ensuring support is in place.
Providing leadership and support for colleagues across the business on our services.




Skills we are looking for?

Alongside technical expertise, you'll care about colleagues, be capable of supporting positive relationships across Platforms and ready to take ownership of problems through to solution. This is critically important as we embed an \"Evergreen\" model where a continual stream of transformation cycles will be the norm. This could be evident in your experience through working with Service and Change partners in taking hold of issues as well as being open to new ways of working.



You'll have knowledge of software lifecycles, software maintenance and understand its importance with expertise in Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, Viva and Copilot, Collaboration based technologies and Software as a Service implementations.



We expect….

A excellent understanding how SharePoint works from an infrastructure point of view
A good level of understanding of M365 and Azure AD
Working knowledge of SharePoint governance toolsets, such as AvePoint
Technical leadership in working in a team environment, demonstrating an ability to self-manage pieces of work
Strong communication skills are a major benefit, needing to communicate complex technical issues and solutions, to a variety of stakeholders with differing technical knowledge
A working level of understanding of scripting in PowerShell
An understanding of Agile (using Jira) and systems thinking
A rounded understanding of IT Technology particularly in the Microsoft world
You will also be required to participate in a 24x7 support rota for the supported platforms, and perform out of hours changes but outside of this we could consider working patterns that work for everyone.
We would love you to have a problem solving and open mentality, ready to apply previous experience to new solutions. The current IT landscape is a fast-evolving place, so adapting to that change is key!




About working for us


Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.


We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension contribution
* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies



Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? We would love to hear from you!



Apply today and find out more.



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