Microsoft Specialist

Location: The Hague

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, One Drive, 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, One Drive, Teams, Entra  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.