Company Description

Inmarsat has been at the forefront of global mobile satellite communications for over forty years, and is the market leading provider of voice and high-speed data communications for users on land, at sea and in the air through its constellation of 14 geostationary satellites.  Inmarsat is a privately owned company with a profitable track record and significant growth aspirations. This is represented by more than 55 nationalities in the workforce, reflecting the global and dynamic nature of the business. With an investment of over $3 billion in its latest network infrastructure, Inmarsat is at the forefront of global mobile communications innovation.

Chief Operations Office 

Inmarsat’s Chief Operations Office (COO) plays a vital role managing the services that keep our business running and delivering to our customers. COO consists of 9 functions including: Satellite Operations, Network Operations, Service Assurance, Service Delivery Aviation and Customer Assurance, Service Delivery and Supply Chain, Project Management Office, Global Cyber Security and Group IT

Job Description

Primary role purpose:

The Cloud and Operations team is responsible to the overall management of the core IT infrastructure at Inmarsat. As part of this group, Microsoft365 plays a key role in the Inmarsat Digital Workplace and strategic IT initiatives. In support of this, Inmarsat have commenced a project to migrate content from on premises data repositories (network file shares and SharePoint Server) to SharePoint Online

The Cloud and Operations team is looking for a SharePoint Engineer to take the lead role to support the technical assessment of content for migration, design and execution of the content migration processes. This role will provide hands-on technical expertise to the project and will need to participate in collaboration with Business Owners in Digital Workspace and other key stakeholder groups.

Key Responsibilities:

The role is responsible for the discovery, design, delivery and testing of the technology components and processes to undertake content migration to SharePoint Online. This person will develop and maintain relationships with internal teams and third party vendors as required.

Technical Responsibilities

• Analysis and design to migrate content from on premise SharePoint repositories to Cloud
• Analysis and design to migrate content from on premise network file shares to Cloud
• Analysis and design to migrate content from user home drives to migrate to OneDrive
• Pilot migrations to SharePoint Online
• Provide early in-life support to users of migrated content
• Delivery of technology to support content migrations (e.g. ShareGate)
• Provide subject matter expertise to project, delivery teams and IT Operations unit
• Provide knowledge sharing across the team to support the ongoing development of cross team operational support functions

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• University degree level or equivalent in Computing Science, Telecommunications or related technical discipline
• Experience working with emerging Solutions and Providers including a solid understanding of cloud computing technology
• 5+ years experience with leading the migration of content to O365 including Network share, Legacy SharePoint to O365 SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and MS Teams
• 5+ years of experience working with SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online
• Experience in design/architecture, deployment and support of Office 365 suite of collaboration services such as (Yammer, Teams, Power Platform, Security Assessments ( MSAT), Office Groups, Project Online, SharePoint online and OneDrive for business)
• Experience with Migration tools: SPMT, ShareGate and LinkFixer
• Experience with automated installations and configurations: PowerShell DSC, AutoSPinstaller, SPDocKit, PnP & SPO modules
• Strong verbal and written communications skills in English including strong presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences.
• Strong people skills; impactful, confident, credible and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an intellectual and multinational environment at all levels
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and negotiation skills, coupled with a logical, disciplined and structured approach to documentation and procedures
• Ability to work independently, with limited supervision
• Flexible and dynamic personality

Desirable Knowledge and Skills:

• Agile delivery methods experience
• Experience working in a complex global or multisite organisations

Additional Information

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Inmarsat Values: 

Our values define Inmarsat’s culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to certain behaviours which support our corporate values, they create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.

• Accountability – taking ownership, getting results and keeping our promises
• Respect – collaborating, embracing diversity and valuing differences
• Excellence – creating bold solutions for our customers and putting quality at the heart of everything we do