Senior End User Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 15, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 16, 2026. Dimensional Fund Advisors scores B on the Alion truth index.
Job Description:
About Dimensional:
Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.
The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer scalable, innovative, and research driven solutions to improve our client’s financial lives.
We’re looking for a End User Platform Engineer to join our team. You will be the primary architect and engineer for the core services utilized by every employee at Dimensional to communicate, coordinate, plan, and automate securely and reliably.
You may be a fit for this role if you:
- Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful
- Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies
- Solve problems systematically and transparently
- Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively
- Take a software engineering approach and demonstrate automation and security mindsets
What you might work on:
As a End User Platform Engineer, you will own the technical design of services provided via cloud and on-prem systems. You will collaborate with other platform architect and engineer teams and participate in the design and implementations related to M365 Services with Purview , Security, and EntraID. You will lead implementations in these areas, taking a software engineering approach and emphasizing automation, zero-configuration, and zero-trust. In addition, hand-off operational tasks involved Microsoft Purview Services to Dimensional’s platform operations team.
- Remain current on Microsoft 365 Security and Purview, reliability, performance, operations, compliance, and security
- Implementation-level experience with Microsoft 365 Security & Microsoft Purview service
- You will assist on modernizing Azure and Entra-ID architecture and configuration
- Hybrid Identity management
- You will help mature the security posture of Microsoft 365 service
- Recommend best practices for business solutions
- Architecture and cost optimization
- Systematic approach for well-engineered solutions
- PowerPlatform integration and with other M365 Service Offerings
- Assist and development of system integrations outside of M365
- Create automation that governs the technology
The successful candidate will thrive in an environment with significant autonomy to design and solve problems by leveraging their awareness of the state of the art and adhering to security and software standards and best practices.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience
- Experience developing and configuring software with code (computer science background preferred)
- Experience architecting, building, migrating, and supporting solutions involving Teams, SharePoint, other M365 services
- Technical expert in Modern Identity solutions including hybrid, Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online, Intune, Azure AD), and Azure Cloud Security and Purview
- 8+ years Systems Engineering experience encompassing requirements development, systems design and analysis, systems integration, and product verification and validation
- 8+ years’ experience adopting cloud methodologies including implementing, supporting and evolving enterprise scale identity management, messaging and office productivity solutions
- Deep knowledge of planning, design, deployment, configuration, optimization of DLP and Security
- Strong understanding of client/server, networking and Internet technologies required to troubleshoot complex messaging systems end-to-end
- Proficiency of related technologies such as PowerShell, Unified Messaging, MFA, Windows Server, mobile devices, eDiscovery and disaster recovery solutions
- Experience in customer-facing roles with demonstrated capability in clearly presenting thoughts and ideas to audiences of various sizes and technical knowledge levels
- Significant hands-on experience in administering large M365 (Office, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Azure AD, Intune, Defender) environments, including hybrid deployment architectures
- Extensive experience in PowerShell and Scripting to support administration and automation of AAD and Office 365 Technologies (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Security & Compliance)
- Practical knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, networking, mail routing, Exchange Server and Windows 10 Management
- Proven ability to effectively map security, privacy, and operational requirements to implementable engineering controls
- Implementation-level experience with Microsoft 365 Protection solutions, including any of the following areas: Data Loss Protection (DLP), Mail Hygiene, classification with labels, records management, threat management, eDiscovery, or GDPR
Preferred Competencies:
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.
It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.