Senior Workplace Engineer

Telana are experts in applied innovation, focused on delivering business outcomes through AI, data, software development, and cloud engineering expertise. We leverage our problem solving skills and end-to-end capabilities to help our clients create better solutions for their customers and employees.

As a top-tier partner of Google Cloud and Microsoft, the market leaders for AI, Data, and Cloud, we work with some of the world’s biggest brands and government organisations to help them solve their toughest business and operational challenges; whether that’s attracting new customers, driving operational efficiency, or improving reducing risk.

We have received impressive external recognition for its innovative offerings, best-in-class capabilities, and tangible impact for customers across various industries:
Telana is recognized as a Leader for Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning in the ISG Provider™ Lens for Google Cloud Partner Ecosystem in 2024, and a Rising Star in 2022 and 2023. We are an accredited Azure Expert MSP provider, and have also been awarded Google Cloud’s 2024 EMEA Public Sector Partner of the Year award.

As a Senior Workplace Engineer, you’ll lead the design and delivery of secure, well-governed Microsoft 365 environments for our clients and you’ll be the technical authority on engagements covering Copilot readiness, data protection, and tenant migrations.

• Lead Copilot for M365 readiness engagements: data estate hygiene, oversharing remediation, permissions baselines, WorkIQ optimisation and Copilot Studio architecture
• Design and deploy Purview solutions:
  Information Protection, DLP, Data Lifecycle and Insider Risk Management
• Act as design authority across enterprise M365 environments and solutions
• Lead tenant-to-tenant migrations from planning through to hypercare
• Engage professionally with technical and non-technical customer stakeholders, leading workshops and building trust
• Design for the end user, minimising friction and supporting adoption
• Own delivery quality across concurrent engagements
• Act as technical lead on pursuits, scoping SOWs and estimating delivery effort
• Build reusable IP: blueprints, assessments, scripts and playbooks
• Keep ahead of Microsoft’s roadmap and support our partner credentials

• Deep expertise in preparing enterprise environments for Copilot for M365—including data estate hygiene, oversharing remediation, permissions baselines, Semantic Index optimization, and Copilot Studio / extensibility architecture.
• Expert-level design and deployment of Microsoft Purview solutions (Information Protection, DLP, Data Lifecycle, Insider Risk Management) to protect sensitive data across modern workplace workloads.
• Broad architectural authority across the Microsoft 365 E5 stack, Microsoft Entra  (hybrid identity, Conditional Access, PIM), and Defender suite (Identity, Cloud Apps, Endpoint).
• Proven track record leading complex, large-scale M365 tenant-to-tenant migrations, using Power Shell, Microsoft Graph API, and third-party tooling to build repeatable blueprints.
• Trusted advisor mindset capable of engaging C-suite and senior stakeholders—translating complex business challenges into pragmatic technical roadmaps and articulating risk-reduction value.
• Experience shaping pre-sales pursuits, scoping Statements of Work (SOWs), estimating delivery effort, and building rapid technical confidence with prospective clients.
• Deep focus on the end-user experience—adept at evaluating how architectural and security changes affect daily workflows, anticipating user friction, and effectively communicating change to drive seamless adoption.
• High autonomy in navigating client ambiguity, leading discovery workshops, driving…