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Lead Configuration Engineer

Howden Joinery

Northamptonshire · Northamptonshire · United Kingdom

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Overview

In this Lead Configuration Engineer role you drive ownership of endpoint standards and lifecycle governance across 30,000+ devices in the UK and Europe, with hands-on leadership over Intune, Ivanti Neurons EPM, and app packaging. You will mentor a small team while ensuring secure, compliant, and well-governed client-management services aligned to our standards. You will influence strategic upgrades, asset records, and change control to support operations at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role that shapes our endpoint strategy.

Pay / Benefits
  • competitive salary with annual company bonus
  • pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Staff Discount
  • Reward and Recognition events
Responsibilities
  • Technical ownership and leadership of MS Intune, Ivanti Neurons EPM and related client-management services
  • Define and assure engineering standards for application packaging, testing, deployment and maintenance across Windows clients
  • Lead device provisioning, configuration, compliance, patching, upgrading and retirement across the endpoint lifecycle
  • Own governance and security posture across Microsoft 365 and end-user computing platforms to organisational standards
  • Deliver project and system-upgrade milestones with quality, change-control, testing and on-time delivery
  • Maintain reliable asset-management and configuration records supporting audits, performance and lifecycle decisions
  • Identify, assess and prioritise new requirements with structured development, testing, pilots, deployment and handover
  • Coach and mentor colleagues to improve engineering quality, resilience and knowledge sharing
Key requirements
  • Experience in end-user computing, endpoint engineering, device management and application deployment
  • Experience with Ivanti Neurons for Endpoint Management (EPM) or similar enterprise endpoint management platform
  • Hands-on administration of Microsoft Intune in a large enterprise
  • Strong knowledge of enrolment, configuration profiles, compliance policies, application deployment and troubleshooting
  • Ability to plan technical changes with testing, pilots, change and handover controls
  • Strong incident investigation, problem solving and root-cause skills
  • Experience with Windows Autopilot, endpoint security, update management and proactive remediation
  • Strong Windows application packaging experience (Win32, MSI, upgrades, uninstall)
  • Working knowledge of PowerShell and scripting for deployment, automation, detection and remediation
  • Understanding of Windows OS, endpoint hardware, security, vulnerability remediation and lifecycle management
  • Understanding of Microsoft 365, identity, networking, certificates, VPN and Wi-Fi dependencies
  • Leadership and ability to balance people management with hands-on work
  • Strong communication and coaching abilities
  • Problem solving and thoughtful troubleshooting
  • Ivanti Neurons for Endpoint Management (EPM)
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Windows Autopilot

Reference: WJ-747_31292722 · Posted 13 Nov 2026, 09:46 PM

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