Principal Digital Specialist - M365 Engineer

## Principal Digital Specialist - M365 Engineer Apply locations:
Scotland, United Kingdom:
Central Belt - Scotland time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 3 Days Agotime left to apply:
End Date:
June 22, 2026 (20 days left to apply) job requisition :
R11764
** Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.
**** Principal Digital Specialist - M365 Engineer
** Join a highly influential digital platform engineering function that is responsible for defining, governing, and enabling Microsoft 365 capabilities across Scottish Water. As Principal M365 Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction for Microsoft 365 services, ensuring that collaboration and productivity platforms remain secure, resilient, well‐governed, and fully aligned to organisational outcomes.
** The role
** You will work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, Digital Product teams, Information Governance, and delivery partners to define standards, governance models, and reusable patterns across key Microsoft 365 services including Teams, SharePoint, One Drive, Exchange Online, Power Platform, and Microsoft Copilot. As a senior technical authority, you will act as Scottish Water’s subject matter expert for Microsoft 365 and Copilot, helping to shape the organisation’s productivity platform strategy, support modern ways of working, and ensure that Microsoft 365 delivers measurable value while maintaining appropriate governance, compliance, and security.
** What you'll do
** You will define, own, and evolve the Microsoft 365 platform architecture and engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with Scottish Water’s enterprise architecture principles and digital strategy. You will act as the design authority for complex, high‐risk, or business‐critical Microsoft 365 solutions, covering collaboration platforms, information management, and Copilot‐enabled productivity services. You will define and maintain Microsoft 365 standards, governance models, reference architectures, and guardrails that support secure and consistent adoption across the  this role, you will lead the design and ongoing evolution of secure‐by‐default Microsoft 365 environments, including identity, device access, data protection, compliance, and collaboration services.

You will also define and implement governance frameworks for Microsoft Copilot that ensure responsible use of AI, protect organisational data, and align with security and information management policies.

You will drive the adoption of modern collaboration and productivity capabilities, such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, One Drive, and Power Platform, while working closely with Information Governance and Cyber Security teams to implement data lifecycle management, information protection, and compliance capabilities across Microsoft 365. You will promote best practice in automation, provisioning, and platform management by leveraging tools such as Power Shell, Graph API, and Power Platform.

Additionally, you will define, monitor, and report on Microsoft 365 platform health, including service adoption, performance, security posture, and compliance. You will identify and address platform risks, governance gaps, and technical debt within the Microsoft 365 estate. You will provide expert Microsoft 365 and Copilot architectural support to programmes, projects, and product teams throughout the delivery lifecycle and work closely with Cyber Security to ensure that all Microsoft 365 services meet security, regulatory, and public‐sector compliance requirements.

The role also involves providing technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to engineers and architects to support capability development across collaboration and productivity platforms. You will engage confidently with senior stakeholders, articulating platform strategy, governance decisions, and technology trade‐offs clearly and pragmatically.
** What You’ll Need
** We are looking for a senior Microsoft 365 platform professional with significant experience in designing and governing enterprise‐scale collaboration environments, and who can balance strategic direction, technical depth, and stakeholder engagement. You will have…