Hayward Hawk are delighted to be partnering with a leading Northern Ireland organisation to recruit a Digital Workplace Lead. This is a key strategic hire responsible for designing and delivering a modern, AI-enabled digital workplace across a multi-company group.

This role offers the opportunity to shape how employees collaborate, communicate, and access information across the organisation by building a Group-wide digital workplace platform within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Youll take ownership of the architecture, design, and implementation of a scalable digital workplace and intranet environment that connects employees across multiple companies, domains, and Microsoft 365 tenants.

The Role

As Digital Workplace Lead, you will define and deliver the strategy for a modern intranet and collaboration platform that becomes the central hub for communication, knowledge sharing, and employee engagement.

Youll work closely with leadership, HR, and business stakeholders to ensure the digital workplace supports productivity, collaboration, and organisational growth.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Workplace Strategy

• Develop and lead the Group digital workplace strategy.
• Define how employees collaborate, communicate, and access knowledge across the organisation.
• Identify opportunities for automation, AI integration, and process improvements.
• Drive adoption of digital workplace tools across the Group.

Intranet & Platform Architecture

• Design and deliver a Group-wide intranet platform built on Microsoft 365.

• Lead the architecture and development of a modern intranet using SharePoint Online.

• Define and implement:

  • Information architecture
  • Site hierarchy
  • Navigation structures

• Configure and optimise SharePoint hub sites, communication sites, and global navigation.

• Develop custom functionality using SharePoint Framework (SPFx), Microsoft Graph, and APIs where required.

Collaboration & Governance

• Design and optimise collaboration environments using:

  • Microsoft Teams
  • SharePoint Online
  • Microsoft Viva

• Establish governance and standards for the digital workplace environment.

• Define best practices for Teams and workspace creation, lifecycle management, and collaboration standards.

• Ensure the intranet becomes the central hub for internal communications, policies, and knowledge sharing.

What Were Looking For

• Proven experience delivering enterprise intranet or digital workplace platforms.
• Strong expertise in SharePoint Online architecture and development.
• Experience implementing collaboration platforms within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.
• Experience defining governance frameworks and information architecture.
• Experience delivering technology solutions impacting large user bases.
• Exposure to AI-enabled collaboration tools.
• Experience working with multi-tenant Microsoft 365 environments.

Desirable

• Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to design and own a Group-wide digital workplace platform
• Work on modern Microsoft 365 and AI-enabled collaboration technologies
• Competitive Salary
• Join a company investing heavily in digital transformation
• Play a strategic role influencing how thousands of employees collaborate

If youd like to learn more about this opportunity, contact Aaron Pyper at Hayward Hawk or click APPLY NOW.

Skills:
Power Automate Sharepoint Microsoft 365