Job Title: Senior M365 Engineer & Migration Specialist (Contract)
Job Description:
The Senior M365 Engineer & Migration Specialist will lead and support Microsoft 365 engineering and tenant-to-tenant migration initiatives, with hands-on responsibility across core M365 services. This role requires strong expertise in Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Entra ID, Intune, migration tooling (preferably Quest & Sharegate), and PowerShell automation. The successful candidate will be comfortable working across global teams and stakeholders, helping drive migration delivery, operational stability, governance, and service improvement. This is a 6-month contract role based in the UK with remote working.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the planning, execution, and support of M365 tenant-to-tenant migrations, including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, and related services.
- Use Quest migration tools (or equivalent) to manage large-scale, complex migration activities and support cutover planning, testing, and issue resolution.
- Administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize M365 services to ensure performance, security, resilience, and availability.
- Conduct root cause analysis on platform issues and implement corrective and preventative measures to improve service stability.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams across the UK, US, and India to coordinate migration schedules, service changes, and project deliverables.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational standards, and standard operating procedures.
- Engage with technical and business stakeholders across regions, provide clear communication, and support technical leadership for migration and engineering activities.
- Support M365 engineering activities across Exchange Online, Intune, Entra ID, Teams, and SharePoint, including configuration, policy management, and service governance.
- Develop and use PowerShell automation to improve migration execution, reporting, administration, and operational efficiency.
- Support change control, security, and compliance processes, ensuring all operational and project changes follow governance requirements.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 7+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in Microsoft 365 engineering, cloud collaboration platforms, and migration delivery.
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end M365 tenant-to-tenant migrations across core collaboration and productivity services.
- Hands-on experience with Quest migration tooling strongly preferred, with the ability to work with equivalent enterprise migration tools where required.
- Strong knowledge of Entra ID, SSO, MFA, Intune, security hardening, compliance controls, and identity lifecycle management.
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with remote teams and stakeholders across the UK, US, and India.
- Role is based in the UK, remote working is supported, and the initial contract term is 6 months.
- Strong hands-on administration experience across Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Intune, with PowerShell scripting capability.
- Strong decision-making, analytical, and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment.
Business Overview:
Tech Mahindra are a multi-billion £ company who employ over 125,000 professionals across 90 countries, helping over a thousand customers, including fortune 500 companies achieve excellent customer experience.
At Tech Mahindra, a culture of driving positive change, celebrating each moment, and empowering all to Rise drives us to dream, do, and become more. By living our culture, both as individuals and as a team, we establish and advance our presence as a brand that is global, innovative, and caring. Our culture also leads the way for us to be and become a Company with a Purpose. We try to achieve this by making responsibility personal and adopting sustainability as a way of life at Tech Mahindra.
That is the Tech Mahindra way… to RISE!
What makes a great team? A Diverse team!
We are passionate about finding the right people to join our team and we understand that everyone has specific things they want for their personal and career development, so please do speak to us, and let us know what matters to you!
Interested? Get in touch with our Talent Acquisition team! We look forward to speaking with you!
A job isn’t just a job. It’s who you are!
Tech Mahindra is an equal opportunity employer and is proud to be a Disability Confident employer.
We actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply for this position and to disclose any specific requirements for the application and interview process.
Our commitment to diversity extends beyond recruitment, as we strive to create a workplace that embraces differences and values the unique contributions of every team member.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to participate in the application or interview process, please speak with your recruiter and we will work with you to ensure a smooth and accessible experience.
Join us in fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and contribute their best.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
