Project Architect / M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect

Role Description: 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. • 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."