M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

Sheffield

3 weeks ago

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M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

+11 months +

+Hybrid working 3 days on site in Sheffield

+£510 - £558 a day

+Inside IR35

We are seeking an experienced M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect to define and implement enterprise-scale compliance, retention, and records management strategies within Microsoft 365. You will play a critical role in ensuring regulatory adherence, data lifecycle governance, and operational excellence across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive environments. This is a hybrid role, with 3 days onsite in Sheffield.

Key Responsibilities:

Define target-state architecture for Purview retention, records management, and eDiscovery at enterprise scale.

Translate regulatory obligations (e.g., MiFID II, SEC/FINRA retention, GDPR, UK DPA) into enforceable Purview policies.

Design event-based retention (e.g., contract execution, trade events) and immutable record scenarios; integrate with data lifecycle and disposition workflows.

Develop mailbox/Teams retention, SharePoint/OneDrive retention strategies, and litigation hold patterns with minimal blast radius.

Build and deploy retention labels/policies, auto-classification, trainable classifiers, adaptive scopes, and disposition reviews.

Integrate with Microsoft eDiscovery (Premium), Audit, and DLP; align with Legal Hold and case management processes.

Engineer scale: policy distribution, tenant-wide scoping, and differential targeting by region/legal entity.

Automate via PowerShell/Graph and instrument telemetry/alerting (e.g., Sentinel/KQL, compliance portals).

Define controls, evidence artefacts, and reporting for internal audit and regulatory assurance.

Create runbooks for policy changes, exceptions, break-glass procedures, and incident response around retention/records.

Contribute to RACI matrices, data classification schemas, and control testing.

Required Skills & Experience:

8-10+ years' experience in Microsoft 365/Purview compliance, delivering retention and records management at enterprise scale.

Deep hands-on expertise in Purview Information Governance, Records Management, Retention Labels/Policies, Event-based retention, Disposition reviews, eDiscovery (Premium), Litigation Hold, and Audit.

Strong understanding of Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams data architecture and workloads.

Proficient in scripting and automation: PowerShell, Microsoft Graph; experience with CI/CD for policy artefacts.

Solid regulatory knowledge: FCA/PRA, MiFID II, SEC/FINRA, GDPR/UK DPA.

Experience scaling solutions in tenants with 100k+ users in regulated environments.

If you'd like to discuss the M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch

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