Applications Manager (Microsoft)

Applications Manager (Microsoft)Salary: circa £50,000 per annum, with some flexibility for the right candidateContract: Permanent, Full-TimeLocation: Knowsley, Prescot, L34 9ET during refurbishment of head office, then Lower House Lane, LiverpoolApproximate re-opening of head office September 2026.Are you passionate about making a difference in the housing sector? If you enjoy influencing how digital estates supports the business, ensuring systems are effective, user-centered and consistently improving to meet organisational needs, this is the role for you.The Microsoft Applications Manager will be specialised in Microsoft-centric environments, focusing on optimising, deploying, and securing applications within the Microsoft ecosystem.About the roleThe way we use applications and digital services is evolving. Cobalt has fully transitioned to a modern, cloud-based technology estate, giving us the foundations to deliver our ambitious Corporate Plan and Digital Strategy. With no legacy infrastructure or technical debt, we now operate within a clean, integrated digital ecosystem where applications, data, identity and security work seamlessly together.As part of this transformation, we are continuing to enhance how our systems interact, expanding our use of Microsoft Fabric and a lakehouse architecture to bring data from across the organisation into a single, trusted source for insight, reporting and advanced analytics. Our platforms sit on resilient Azure cloud foundations, ..... full job details .....