Intune Platforms Lead

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Intune Platform Lead to take ownership of our global endpoint management platform and lead the delivery of a secure, scalable, and modern digital workplace experience.

This is a leadership role combining deep technical expertise with people management. You'll be responsible for the strategic direction, governance, and continuous improvement of Microsoft Intune, while leading a team of specialists to deliver a secure and seamless user experience across the organisation.

Working closely with Security, Infrastructure, and regional IT teams, you will drive platform innovation, support digital transformation initiatives, and ensure endpoint services remain secure, compliant, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Intune Platform team, setting priorities and driving successful delivery of roadmap initiatives.
• Own the design, governance, and lifecycle management of Microsoft Intune, including configuration profiles, compliance policies, security baselines, and application deployment standards.
• Define and maintain global endpoint management standards and ensure policy consistency across the organisation.
• Drive endpoint security and compliance through technologies including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Conditional
• Access, BitLocker, and Attack Surface Reduction policies.
• Lead Windows and third-party patch management strategy, including Windows Autopatch, deployment rings, and update governance.
• Oversee device provisioning and lifecycle management across Windows, macOS, iOS/iPadOS, and Android Enterprise environments.
• Manage Intune application packaging standards, deployment processes, and platform governance.
• Develop reporting and analytics dashboards to provide insights into compliance, patching, and security posture.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues and major incidents.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across IT, Security, and the wider business to deliver platform improvements and strategic outcomes.

Essential Skills/Experience

• Significant experience within End User Computing (EUC), Workplace Technology, or Endpoint Management in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft Intune and modern endpoint management solutions.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, identity and access management, and endpoint security.
• Experience managing Windows 10/11, macOS, iOS/iPadOS, and Android Enterprise devices.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Defender technologies, vulnerability management, and security best practices.
• Experience with Windows Autopatch, Autopilot, and modern device provisioning strategies.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and automation skills, including experience with Microsoft Graph API and REST APIs.
• Experience with reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI, Intune reporting, and Log Analytics.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Desirable Skills/Experience

Experience with SCCM, co-management, or hybrid endpoint management environments.

Experience with third-party patch management solutions such as Patch My PC.

Knowledge of CIS Benchmarks and security frameworks.

Microsoft certifications such as MD-102, MS-102, AZ-104, SC-300, SC-200, or SC-401.

ITIL Foundation certification or equivalent.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of workplace technology within a global organisation. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping modern endpoint management strategy, driving digital transformation, and delivering a secure and seamless experience for colleagues worldwide.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.