Key Skills

Job Description

Resource Expertise Description The Microsoft Purview Senior Engineer / SME will support customer design activities and provide hands-on delivery support to the partner team responsible for build and configuration. The role requires proven Microsoft Purview design experience, strong engineering capability and practical implementation skills across Microsoft 365, endpoint and broader data protection scenarios. Mandatory experience includes Purview Data Loss Prevention, Enterprise Data Management and core data capabilities such as classification, sensitivity labelling, information protection, audit, eDiscovery, retention and compliance reporting. Expertise · Proven Microsoft Purview design and hands-on delivery experience in complex enterprise environments. · Mandatory hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, endpoint and relevant cloud scenarios. · Mandatory experience with Purview data capabilities, including classification, sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, sensitivity labels, auto-labelling, retention, audit, eDiscovery and compliance reporting. · Mandatory Enterprise Data Management knowledge, including data governance, ownership, metadata, data quality, lifecycle management and alignment with Purview controls. · Ability to support customer design decisions while enabling the partner team to build, configure, test and resolve defects. · Strong understanding of Purview policy architecture, including locations, conditions, actions, exceptions, policy tips, overrides, alerts and enforcement modes. · Experience implementing discovery, simulation, pilot and phased enforcement approaches that balance risk reduction, compliance and user experience. · Ability to translate regulatory, privacy, security, records management and business requirements into practical Purview configurations and operating processes. · Experience defining governance and operating inputs for ownership, incident triage, investigation, exceptions, escalation, reporting and continuous improvement. · Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 security and compliance administration, including Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Entra ID and endpoint integration considerations. · Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain design options, configuration impacts, trade-offs and risk decisions clearly. · Strong documentation skills, including designs, policy standards, control mappings, test scripts, runbooks and implementation roadmaps.

Core Responsibilities

Support customer design decisions and provide hands-on delivery guidance for Microsoft Purview implementations, while enabling partner teams to build, configure, test, and resolve defects. Translate regulatory, privacy, security, records management, and business requirements into practical controls, governance processes, documentation, and phased implementation plans.

Requirements

Requires proven senior-level Microsoft Purview design and implementation experience in complex enterprise environments, including Data Loss Prevention across Microsoft 365 services, endpoints, and relevant cloud scenarios. Requires broad expertise in Purview data capabilities and Enterprise Data Management, along with strong Microsoft 365 compliance administration, stakeholder communication, and documentation skills.