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Role title: M365 Employee Collaboration Platform Manager
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 5 & Digital
Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology
Salary: £85,126.00 Per Annum
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
The role and responsibilities
The Platform Manager works with architects to articulate the potential uses of the platform and ensure that designs make optimal use of the platform’s capabilities. The Platform Manager works with a team of developers to ensure that the platform is maintained and supported and that the capabilities of the platform are available for use by TPR consumers. The Platform Manager works with platform suppliers to understand the roadmap for the platform, prioritising a backlog of work to implement new capabilities and retire capabilities that are end of life.
This is a highly visible role that requires a mix of technical acumen and team leadership skills to drive the execution of the platform. This person must be creative, ask questions, and be comfortable challenging the status quo.
Primary Responsibilities
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Create, design, support and develop the Platform coordinating efforts with the development team, working on platform architectural implementation.
- Take initiative in solving complex technical problems and recommend original solutions and design approaches to platform requirements, making decisions between competing solutions.
- Own and line manage the platform development team and deliverables, including technical design, logical and physical design of the solution, coding, testing, and debugging.
- Work closely with the architect, to ensure conformance with the overall architectural guidelines.
- Collaborate with Service and Product Owners to manage the backlog of work and ensure the stability of the platform and that capabilities are available to be used in meeting user needs.
- Create a close working relationship with business partners to identify the pain points with the goal of providing better services and products.
- Work with various DDaT architects to explore integration across the overall platform landscape.
- Establish strong relationships, and proactively communicate, with team members as well as individuals across the organization.
The role criteria
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M365 Technical Experience across multiple M365 applications and their integration with related Microsoft technologies e.g. Azure Infrastructure, Power Platform, Data Platform.
- Experience in creating a loosely coupled, services-oriented design that can scale for large volumes of data
- Experience supporting extensibility, to plug new modules or services without requiring re-design
- Experience working with, and enhancing, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD) environments.
- Experience with Open-Source Software around data processing and persistence
- Experience working on pipeline framework
- Strong estimating and planning skills
- Should have worked on Agile scrum or kanban methodology
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
TPR offers:
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Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
- A values-led, inclusive environment.
- Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
- A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).
Reward and benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Our culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.
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Applications
To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.
Please note that TPR is unable to offer visa sponsorship. All applicants must already hold Right to Work in the UK for the duration of their employment. For more information on Right to Work, please visit Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK.
Selection and interview
If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be an offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.
Diversity and inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.
Further information
Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email [email protected].
