Senior Consulting Engineer — Microsoft Purview & Collaboration Security

Role Overview.

This role sits at the intersection of collaboration security, information protection, compliance, and advisory delivery. You will operate as a technical authority for both clients and internal teams—helping define problem statements, evaluate options, and guide decisions that balance risk, usability, licensing realities, and operational sustainability.

The position carries a high degree of trust and autonomy. You will be expected to influence direction, challenge assumptions, and take responsibility for outcomes—not simply execute predefined tasks.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working in ambiguous environments, earning client trust through clarity of thought, technical credibility, and disciplined follow-through.

What you’ll be doing.

Client Advisory, Delivery & Decision Support

• Lead client discovery workshops and technical deep-dives; clarify objectives, identify constraints, surface tradeoffs, and translate ambiguity into executable decisions.
• Design and implement Microsoft Purview and collaboration security solutions consistent with client requirements and delivery standards.
• Deliver client-facing documentation that is clear, bounded, and decision-oriented, including problem statements, recommendations, rationale, expected outcomes, and operational implications.
• Present recommendations to client stakeholders using clear rationale, assumptions, risks, and expected outcomes; support informed decision-making rather than one-way delivery.
• Run technical working sessions and implementation calls; coordinate dependencies across client stakeholders and internal teams.
• Participate in governance cadences covering status, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps, and support change control practices for production-impacting modifications.
• Provide structured handoff and knowledge transfer, including runbooks, administrative guidance, and operational guardrails.

Purview, Defender for Office 365 & Collaboration Security Engineering

• Design, implement, and optimize Microsoft Purview capabilities such as Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, retention, records management, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, eDiscovery, and data lifecycle controls as appropriate to client need and licensing posture.
• Design and implement Defender for Office 365 protections including anti-phishing, anti-malware, Safe Links, Safe Attachments, campaign analysis, threat investigation, and policy tuning.
• Secure