M365 Purview Compliance Design Architect 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/aler