M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

Posted 19 December 2025
Salary £550/day
LocationSheffield
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology , Commodities and Financial Services

Job description

​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 (e.g., MiFID II record-keeping, SEC/FINRA retention, GDPR lawful basis & deletion windows, UK DPA) to enforceable Purview policies.

  • Design event‑based retention (e.g., contract execution, trade events) and immutable record scenarios; integrate with data lifecycle 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 (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, 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.

Apply now!