Job Specifications
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.
About the Company
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