M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

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Role Title: M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

Location: Sheffield -3 days per week

Duration: 30/11/2026

Pay Rate: £613 per day

Role Description:

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.

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.