M365 Architect ( Microsoft Entra / M365 tenant foundation)
Relevant experience: 8+ Years.
Location: Noida, Gurgao, Bangalore,Hyderabad,Pune,chennai(Hybrid).
Role purpose
Own the architecture and technical delivery of the Microsoft tenant foundation for BayWa r.e. r.e.current, ensuring that the tenant is established in a secure, supportable and target-architecture-aligned manner and is ready for downstream Dynamics 365 and M365 workloads.
Key responsibilities
• Lead the design of the new Microsoft Entra / M365 tenant foundation.
• Define tenant architecture, naming standards, tenant strategy, administrative model and core configuration principles.
• Define and validate:
• Custom domain and UPN strategy.
• Tenant geography/data-residency decisions.
• Administrative roles and privileged access approach.
• Global Administrator and emergency/break-glass account model.
• Administrator MFA requirements.
• Initial licensing and licence-assignment approach.
• Ensure the foundation is aligned to BayWa r.e.’s target single-tenant, Microsoft-first architecture.
• Define the boundary between:
• M365/Entra tenant foundation.
• Azure platform/landing zone.
• Security services.
• Dynamics 365 / Power Platform environments.
• Coordinate architecture decisions with the Azure, Security and Dynamics workstreams.
• Produce the Tenant Foundation / Architecture Guardrails document, including architecture decisions, assumptions, interfaces and dependencies.
• Lead technical design workshops and architecture reviews.
• Define and execute the technical readiness criteria required to declare the tenant Dynamics-ready.
• Provide technical oversight to the M365/Entra Engineer during configuration.
• Support handover to the Dynamics / Business Suite team.
Required skills and experience
• 8–12+ years of Microsoft infrastructure / Modern Workplace experience.
• Strong architecture expertise across:
• Microsoft Entra ID.
• Microsoft 365 tenant architecture.
• Identity and access management.
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