Vice President, M365 Architect

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced M365 Architect (VP level) who provides senior architecture leadership for Microsoft 365, Copilot, Copilot Studio, M365 agents and related governance capabilities. The role ensures that collaboration, productivity, automation and AI-assisted work solutions are designed and adopted in a controlled, secure and business-outcome-oriented manner.

You will report to the Director - Regional Enterprise Architecture (REA) and accountable for architecture direction, governance patterns, design assurance and adoption guardrails. The architect works through Service Owners, platform teams, Security, Compliance, Risk and delivery teams to ensure M365 and Copilot-enabled solutions are safe, scalable and aligned to enterprise standards.

• M365 enterprise architecture: Act as the senior M365 architect for Microsoft 365 services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, Teams, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Viva, Loop, Microsoft Graph, Entra ID integrations, Purview, Defender, Intune and enterprise information protection capabilities.
• Target-state design and standards: Define and maintain the M365 target architecture, roadmap, reference architectures, reusable design patterns, technology standards, implementation guardrails and architecture decision records for collaboration, productivity, automation, knowledge management and AI-assisted work.
• Assessment and recommendation: Lead architecture assessment of current and target states, identify capability gaps, evaluate solution options and provide pragmatic recommendations aligned to enterprise architecture principles, technology risk requirements, business priorities and regulatory expectations.
• Copilot and agent solution architecture: Architect Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio agent solutions, including declarative versus custom-engine approaches, orchestration, knowledge-source design, Microsoft Graph grounding, SharePoint and Dataverse knowledge sources, Work IQ/Microsoft IQ alignment, connectors, actions, tools, MCP/API integration, prompt and instruction design, access control, observability, evaluation and lifecycle management.
• Agentic AI adoption patterns: Establish enterprise patterns for agentic AI adoption, including autonomous and semi-autonomous workflows, human-in-the-loop approvals, tool/action permissions, fallback handling, auditability, exception handling, risk classification and production support models.
• Service Owner enablement: Partner with business units, Service Owners and delivery teams to shape use cases, translate business outcomes into technical requirements, assess feasibility and guide implementation teams from ideation and pilot through controlled production rollout and measurable adoption.
• Production readiness and control assurance: Provide architecture oversight for AI-enabled M365 solutions to ensure security, privacy, regulatory, cross-border data, data residency, identity, entitlement, retention, audit, eDiscovery and operational resilience considerations are addressed before production use.
• Responsible AI and Copilot governance: Define and operationalize responsible AI and Copilot governance standards using Microsoft Copilot Control System concepts, including security and governance, management controls, measurement and reporting, readiness, adoption, productivity impact and business-value tracking.
• Agent lifecycle governance: Govern the end-to-end agent lifecycle: intake, ownership, risk tiering, knowledge-source approval, connector approval, prompt/instruction change control, testing, release management, monitoring, periodic recertification, retirement and exception management.
• Security and information protection design: Design and review security controls for Copilot, agents and Power Platform solutions, including least privilege, conditional access, privileged access management, sensitivity labels, DLP, connector policies, SharePoint oversharing remediation, restricted access/content discovery, threat protection and audit logging.
• AI testing and evaluation: Define practical evaluation approaches for Copilot and agent solutions, including test question sets, expected-answer validation, groundedness checks, access-control testing, regression testing, prompt-injection testing, consistency checks, citation-quality review, hallucination management and ongoing production monitoring.
• Reusable assets and guidance: Create solution blueprints, control checklists, design review packs, executive recommendations, adoption playbooks and engineering guidance for M365, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 agent governance, knowledge management and productivity transformation initiatives.
• Architecture governance forums: Manage and contribute to architecture governance forums by preparing review materials, documenting decisions, tracking risks/actions and guiding projects through EA review, security review, risk acceptance and approval processes.
• Technology roadmap vigilance: Evaluate Microsoft roadmap updates and official announcements covering Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 agents, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Purview, Defender, Power Platform, Teams and agent ecosystem capabilities translate relevant changes into enterprise adoption recommendations.
• Capability uplift: Drive capability uplift through architecture clinics, knowledge-sharing sessions, reusable templates, practical training, coaching of platform/application teams and guidance for business users, Service Owners and citizen developers.
• Vendor and product evaluation: Support vendor and product evaluations related to M365, Copilot Studio, AI agents, automation, content management, semantic/knowledge layers, connectors, security, monitoring, evaluation, governance tooling and managed services.
• Trusted advisory: Be a trusted adviser to senior management and stakeholders by communicating complex technical, governance and AI risk topics clearly, concisely and in a business-outcome-oriented manner.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in IT, digital workplace, collaboration platforms, enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, Microsoft 365 engineering/architecture, AI solution architecture or platform governance roles.
• Architecture experience with Microsoft 365 enterprise services and modern workplace platforms, including the ability to define target-state architecture, integration patterns, governance controls and implementation guardrails.
• Experience with enterprise architecture governance, technology standards, solution review, risk/control alignment and stakeholder advisory in a medium-to-large enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of identity, access management, information protection, data governance, compliance, auditability and operational resilience requirements for SaaS and cloud platforms.
• Ability to advise Service Owners and senior stakeholders by translating business outcomes into feasible, controlled and measurable technology options.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation and presentation skills able to explain complex architecture, AI, governance and risk topics clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
• Practical architecture and delivery experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Copilot Chat, Power Platform, connectors, knowledge grounding, workflow automation and AI-enabled business solution delivery.
• Experience in agentic AI solution design, including agent architecture, orchestration, tool/action integration, prompt/instruction management, testing, evaluation, observability, monitoring and operational controls.
• Experience designing secure and governed Microsoft 365 environments covering Entra ID, Purview, Defender, Intune, SharePoint Online, Teams, Exchange Online, OneDrive, Microsoft Graph, Power Platform and service management integrations.
• Experience in banking, financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• TOGAF, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Security, Power Platform, Azure, cloud architecture, AI governance or equivalent architecture/governance certification.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.