Senior Microsoft Purview & Data Protection Architect

EY; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Microsoft Purview Architect to lead data protection and privacy initiatives across complex enterprise environments. You will shape governance, architecture designs, and implementation roadmaps, translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical security controls and scalable data landscapes.

The role emphasizes collaboration with security, privacy, and business teams, mentoring junior staff, and delivering high‑quality solution designs while staying current with

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of data protection, information governance, privacy, compliance, and security concepts.
• Practical experience designing or implementing Microsoft Purview capabilities in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to connect technical platform features to business, legal, privacy, regulatory, and operational outcomes.
• Ability to lead discovery sessions, workshops, design discussions, demonstrations, and working sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead defined Microsoft Purview workstreams, including discovery, requirements gathering, design, configuration guidance, testing, deployment planning, and operational transition.
• Design and support Microsoft Purview capabilities such as Information Protection, sensitivity labeling, DLP, Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, eDiscovery, Audit, Data Map, Data Catalog, and Data Security Posture Management.
• Develop data classification, information protection, retention, DLP, insider risk, and data governance strategies that align to business objectives and legal, privacy, regulatory, and security requirements.
• Support security and privacy assessments, architecture reviews, maturity assessments, control gap analyses, roadmaps, operating models, and governance frameworks.
• Facilitate client workshops and stakeholder interviews across security, privacy, legal, compliance, records, data governance, technology, and business teams.
• Translate business and control requirements into solution architectures, design decisions, implementation backlogs, user stories, test scenarios, and measurable outcomes.
• Create clear architecture diagrams, reference patterns, configuration standards, decision papers, executive presentations, and technical implementation guidance.
• Support integration of Microsoft Purview with Microsoft Defender, Intune, Sentinel, Entra, Azure, Fabric, Microsoft 365, and related data and security services.
• Contribute to data security and AI governance initiatives, including protection of sensitive data used by Microsoft 365 Copilot, generative AI solutions, analytics platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Provide technical direction to implementation resources, review deliverables for quality, identify risks and dependencies, and elevate design decisions when appropriate.
• Mentor junior team members, contribute reusable assets and delivery methods, and support proposal development and solution shaping for Data Protection and Privacy opportunities.
• Maintain awareness of Microsoft product developments, industry standards, privacy requirements, and emerging data security and AI risks.

Skills

Microsoft Purview

Data protection

Privacy compliance

Stakeholder leadership

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Defender

Intune

Azure

Data Governance

Job description

EY is seeking a Senior Microsoft Purview Architect to lead data protection and privacy initiatives across complex enterprise environments. You will shape governance, architecture designs, and implementation roadmaps, translating legal and regulatory requirements into practical security controls and scalable data landscapes.

The role emphasizes collaboration with security, privacy, and business teams, mentoring junior staff, and delivering high‑quality solution designs while staying current with