Microsoft 365 Cloud Workplace Architect at Allps

Location:
Basel, Switzerland
Contract Duration: 3 years, with possible extension
Experience

Required:

3+ years.

Industry

Experience:

Utilities & Energy (Energie & Wasserversorgung) or Telecommunications or Banking & Financial Services or Information Technology & Services

We are looking for an experienced M365 Cloud Workplace Architect to support a long-term enterprise project in Basel. This is a 3-year contract role with the possibility of extension.

The ideal candidate for this role will have strong hands‑on experience in administering, configuring, securing and optimising Microsoft 365 cloud workplace environments. The role requires solid expertise across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, tenant governance, security configuration, compliance policies, migration support and operational troubleshooting.

Strategic Scope:
Engineers, administers, and monitors the global operational footprint, document lifecycle properties, and compliance policies governing Microsoft 365 cloud platform integrations and cross‑tenant collaboration environments.

• Platform Operational Management:
  Provision, optimise, and maintain standard and custom M365 collaboration work spaces, governing underlying structures for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online tenants.
• Governance Framework Mapping:
  Enforce data classification, preservation, retention policies, and tenant‑wide security boundaries to secure document life cycles against non‑compliant exposure.
• Migration Blueprint Execution:
  Draft, validate, and execute automated migration scripts to move structural records from local legacy storage targets into Microsoft 365 cloud instances.
• Diagnostic Diagnostics Support:
  Deliver senior‑tier engineering support, orchestrating log reviews and using native console diagnostic trees to analyse complex identity, file access, and messaging glitches.
• Infrastructure Documentation:
  Formulate, revise, and verify baseline operational guides, runbooks, security profiles, and configuration charts detailing tenant settings and automation flows.

• Minimum of 3 to 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Microsoft 365 administration, collaboration platform management, or enterprise cloud workplace operations.
• Strong experience provisioning, configuring, optimising and maintaining Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online environments.
• Good understanding of Microsoft 365 tenant administration, workspace governance, user access models, permissions, groups and collaboration structures.
• Experience implementing and managing data classification, retention, preservation, compliance and document lifecycle policies within Microsoft 365.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft 365 security and governance controls, including tenant‑wide security boundaries, access control, sharing policies and compliance configuration.
• Experience planning and executing migrations from legacy or on‑premise storage environments into Microsoft 365 cloud services, supported by Power Shell or Microsoft migration tooling.
• Strong troubleshooting experience across identity, file access, collaboration and messaging issues using Microsoft 365 admin centres, audit logs and diagnostic tools.

Ability to work independently as well as part of a distributed project team.

Flawless bilingual/native‑level business German communications proficiency (C1/C2 level written and spoken) is required. The candidate must present seamlessly in German during the technical panel interview (Anbieterfachgespräch).

Must hold EU/EFTA nationality or possess an active, valid Swiss permanent residency/work card (C Permit or unrestricted B/G Permit).

• Opportunity to work on challenging projects and contribute to the growth of our company.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Professional development and growth opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Power Shell
• Active Directory
• Microsoft Teams
• SharePoint Online
• Exchange Online
• One Drive for Business
• Entra
• Microsoft 365 Administration

• IIS
• Azure Dev Ops
• Power Apps
• Power Automata
• Cloud Networking
• Industry (Utilities & Energy)
• Preferred
  
  Languages:
  
  Deutsch, English
• Work Permit