Senior Engineer - Leeds

Working within the Microsoft 365 engineering function, spearheading the mission to optimize the investment in M365, driving efficiency, performance, resilience and championing business utilization and adoption. Directs, oversees and assures seamless execution by the strategic partners, working holistically to define and implement the vision and strategy, and driving the establishment of efficient, high quality, secure and resilient solutions across Asda. Interact regularly with Solution Architects, Project Managers, and wider business areas to deliver enterprise level implementations and changes. The role sits within Infrastructure Engineering, working closely with peers in EUC, Compute, Network, and Distributed Client teams, in addition to the InfoSec and Cloud Platform Services teams. You will also be required to be a point of escalation for Operations issues, both within and out of hours (when on call), supported by an established engineering rota. Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week. We're really looking forward to having you around! We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities. Responsibilities

• Business Requirements Identification
+ Collect business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Tech Vendor Management
+ Work with suppliers of products in your area, ensuring all products have road maps.
• Secure and Stable
+ Ensure we implement, and regularly review the infrastructure to ensure we are following best security practices.
• Capacity Management
+ Regular capacity reviews, and working with the business to keep capacity growth under control.
• Lead technical colleague
+ Act as lead technical colleague guiding and supporting junior members of the team, and ensuring best practice is followed.
• Policies and Procedures Development
+ Contribute to the drafting of policies, procedures, and related guidelines within your area of expertise to meet defined key principles and ensure compliance with external requirements.


• Strong technical knowledge & expertise across the M365 application suite including but not limited to Teams, MS Office, SharePoint, with experience in both a strategic and tactical capacity. Expertise in designing, implementing, and supporting modern workplace solutions within a complex, highly structured corporate environment is essential.
• Knowledge and experience of Service Management methodology, process and tooling (including ServiceNow) across the Service Value Chain in line with ITIL/industry best practice.
• Work independently while collaborating closely with peers, and provide technical guidance when required on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Able to manage own workload to ensure tasks are delivered on time.
  
  To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
  
  You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves