M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

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Summary: The M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect role involves defining and implementing compliance architecture for Microsoft Purview, focusing on retention, records management, and eDiscovery at an enterprise level. The position requires extensive experience in Microsoft 365 compliance and regulatory obligations, with responsibilities including policy design, automation, and integration with legal processes. The role is based in Sheffield and requires on-site presence three days a week for a six-month contract. This position is classified as inside IR35, with a daily rate of £550.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define target-state architecture for Purview retention, records management, and eDiscovery at enterprise scale.
  • Map regulatory obligations (eg, MiFID II record-keeping, SEC/FINRA retention, GDPR lawful basis & deletion windows, UK DPA) to enforceable Purview policies.
  • Design event-based retention (eg, contract execution, trade events) and immutable record scenarios; integrate with data life cycle and disposition workflows.
  • Mailbox/Teams retention, SharePoint/OneDrive retention strategies, and litigation hold patterns with minimal blast radius.
  • Build and roll out 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, performance, tenant-wide scoping, differential targeting by region/legal entity.
  • Automate via PowerShell/Graph, and instrument telemetry/alerting (eg, 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, data classification schemas, and control testing.

Key Skills:

  • 8-10+ years in Microsoft 365/Purview compliance, with proven delivery of 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, Audit.
  • Strong knowledge of Exchange/SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams data architecture and workloads.
  • Scripting & automation: PowerShell, Microsoft Graph; CI/CD for policy artefacts.
  • Regulatory knowledge: FCA/PRA, MiFID II, SEC/FINRA, GDPR/UK DPA.
  • Performance/scaling in tenants >100k users in regulated environments.

Salary (Rate): £550/day

City: Sheffield

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: on-site

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Job Title: M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

Location: Sheffield- 3Days/week Onsite

Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35

550GBP/Day Inside IR35.

Responsibilities

  • Define target-state architecture for Purview retention, records management, and eDiscovery at enterprise scale.
  • Map regulatory obligations (eg, MiFID II record-keeping, SEC/FINRA retention, GDPR lawful basis & deletion windows, UK DPA) to enforceable Purview policies.
  • Design event-based retention (eg, contract execution, trade events) and immutable record scenarios; integrate with data life cycle and disposition workflows.
  • Mailbox/Teams retention, SharePoint/OneDrive retention strategies, and litigation hold patterns with minimal blast radius.
  • Build and roll out 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, performance, tenant-wide scoping, differential targeting by region/legal entity.
  • Automate via PowerShell/Graph, and instrument telemetry/alerting (eg, 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, data classification schemas, and control testing.

Required Skills

  • 8-10+ years in Microsoft 365/Purview compliance, with proven delivery of 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, Audit.
  • Strong knowledge of Exchange/SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams data architecture and workloads.
  • Scripting & automation: PowerShell, Microsoft Graph; CI/CD for policy artefacts.
  • Regulatory knowledge: FCA/PRA, MiFID II, SEC/FINRA, GDPR/UK DPA.
  • Performance/scaling in tenants >100k users in regulated environments.
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