M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect
Posted 1 day ago by 1767936995
£558 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Sheffield
Summary: The M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect role involves defining and implementing compliance, retention, and records management strategies within Microsoft 365. The position requires expertise in regulatory adherence and data lifecycle governance across various Microsoft platforms. This is a hybrid role, requiring three days on-site in Sheffield. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring operational excellence and compliance across the organization.
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.
Key Skills:
- 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.
Salary (Rate): £558 daily
City: Sheffield
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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 chloe.manerowski@cbsbutler.com and I will get in touch.
