Senior Purview DLP & Data Protection Engineer

Accenture Middle East; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Middle East is seeking a Microsoft Purview Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to design and implement auto-labeling policies and trainable classifiers for sensitive data across the organization. You will integrate Purview with security tools, configure policy tips and notifications, conduct data discovery, and support audits and compliance with detailed reports.

The role emphasizes policy design, incident management, and user awareness programs to reduce data leakage while enabling

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience with Microsoft Purview or equivalent data protection solutions.
• Experience designing auto-labeling policies and trainable classifiers for sensitive data.
• Proven ability to implement DLP and DRM controls across Microsoft 365 environments.
• Strong policy design skills and experience with RBAC and access controls.
• Experience contributing to audits, compliance reporting, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement auto-labeling policies in Microsoft Purview to automatically classify sensitive data based on content and context
• Develop and fine-tune trainable classifiers to improve detection of business-specific sensitive information
• Implement endpoint DLP policies to prevent data exfiltration from user devices, including USB and print restrictions
• Configure policy tips and user notifications to enhance user awareness and reduce accidental data sharing
• Conduct data discovery and classification scans across structured and unstructured data repositories
• Optimize DLP rule conditions and thresholds to balance security enforcement with business usability
• Define and enforce usage rights (view, edit, print, copy, forward restrictions) through Microsoft Purview DRM.
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring DLP incidents and implemented preventive controls
• Integrate Microsoft Purview with existing security tools and workflows for centralized data protection management
• Support audit and compliance activities by providing detailed reports, evidence, and classification insights
• Manage sensitivity label lifecycle, including creation, modification, publishing, and retirement
• Configure label-based encryption and access controls to ensure persistent protection of sensitive files and emails
• Automate report generation and alert monitoring using compliance center dashboards and logs
• Conduct user training sessions and awareness programs to improve adoption of data protection policies
• Implement role-based access controls (RBAC) for secure administration of compliance tools
• Monitor and improve data classification coverage across cloud workloads
• Evaluate and test new features and updates in Microsoft Purview before production rollout
• Maintain documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base for data protection processes

Skills

Microsoft Purview

Data classification

DLP

DRM

Policy design

Incident management

RBAC

Auditing & reporting

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Accenture Middle East is seeking a Microsoft Purview Engineer with 3-5 years of experience to design and implement auto-labeling policies and trainable classifiers for sensitive data across the organization. You will integrate Purview with security tools, configure policy tips and notifications, conduct data discovery, and support audits and compliance with detailed reports.

The role emphasizes policy design, incident management, and user awareness programs to reduce data leakage while enabling