M365 Collaboration Engineer, AVP - BXTI Workplace

Overview

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis.

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Blackstone Technology & Innovations (BXTi) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies. BXTi is nimble and entrepreneurial, with open and iterative design processes and a rapid pace of development that gives every team member the opportunity to make an impact from day one.

We are problem solvers who move projects from idea to implementation and we value active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone, contributing to the firm’s competitive edge.

The Messaging and Collaboration Engineer is responsible for driving the design, evolution, and strategic direction of Blackstone’s global Messaging and Collaboration ecosystem. This role emphasizes architecture, engineering, and cross-functional partnership rather than routine operational support. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong capabilities in requirements gathering, solution design, and the implementation of robust, scalable, and secure collaboration services aligned with business objectives.

This position plays a critical role in shaping platform standards, advancing cloud-first strategies, and ensuring solutions are designed with high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and long-term sustainability in mind. Many of the services supported by this team include components across both Azure and AWS environments. Experience with these platforms, or a demonstrated willingness to learn them, is required.

• Architecture & Solution Design

  • Lead requirements-gathering sessions with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable technical solutions.

  • Architect secure, resilient, and high-performing messaging and collaboration platforms with consideration for high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity, monitoring, alerting, and system observability.

  • Design technical roadmaps and contribute to long-term strategy for Messaging and Collaboration services across Microsoft 365 and hybrid environments.

  • Partner with Engineering, Security, and Architecture teams to develop and support global standards, governance, and lifecycle management practices.

• Engineering & Implementation

  • Engineer and deploy new capabilities across Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and related Microsoft 365 collaboration services.

  • Develop automation and orchestration solutions to reduce operational overhead and support consistent, secure configuration management.

  • Conduct design reviews, validate solution architecture, and ensure alignment with established technical best practices.

  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to improve user experience, security posture, and platform efficiency.

• Operational Enablement

  • Develop and deliver operational documentation, training materials, runbooks, and knowledge resources for Service Desk and Operations teams.

  • Provide advanced engineering support for complex or escalated issues while enabling operational teams to manage standard support workflows.

  • Coordinate vendor escalations and maintain key technical relationships.

• Governance & Compliance

  • Define and support governance models for Teams lifecycle management, app permissions, SharePoint…