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