Data Protection and Microsoft Purview Consultant

Responsibilities

• Assess the current Microsoft Purview environment and identify opportunities to improve stability, governance, and effectiveness.
• Review and refine sensitive information types, labeling strategies, auto-labeling, and inheritance behavior.
• Tune DLP policies to help reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
• Analyze alert volume, interpret findings, and recommend practical improvements.
• Support investigations related to sensitive data handling and help interpret alerts and escalations.
• Lead hands-on evaluation and proof-of-concept testing of alternative or complementary data governance tools.
• Document the current configuration, key findings, and recommended next steps.
• Provide knowledge transfer, coaching, and training support to internal teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data protection, cloud security, or information security.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Microsoft Purview, including Information Protection, DLP, sensitive information types, eDiscovery, and Insider Risk.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft E5 security and compliance capabilities.
• Proven ability to improve data classification, labeling, and policy effectiveness.
• Experience reducing noise and false positives in security or compliance alerting.
• Ability to support compliance-focused initiatives and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

• Clear communication skills and a practical, solution-oriented approach.
• Experience redesigning labeling taxonomies.
• Background evaluating or implementing data protection platforms and related tools.
• Experience working in compliance-driven environments.
• Ability to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations.

Preferred Skills

• Experience evaluating or implementing data protection platforms and related tools.
• Experience working in compliance-driven environments.
• Ability to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations.