Microsoft 365 Data Security Architect/Purview Architect

Job Summary

BDO RISE is an India capability center of the BDO USA, P.C. supporting Audit, Tax, and Advisory lines of businesses. BDO brings world-class resources and exceptional service to each one of our clients. BDO USA is a member of BDO International, the world’s fifth largest accounting network.

BDO USA’s DIGITAL practice is a rapidly growing digital advisory organization committed to empowering middle-market organizations to harness the full potential of technology. We specialize in helping businesses adapt to disruption, enhance operational efficiencies, strengthen risk management effectiveness, and discover new revenue streams.

Our team consists of collaborative and cross-disciplinary experts, including digital strategists, systems integrators, data scientists, software developers, change management professionals, and industry-specific advisors. Together, we collaborate to address our clients' immediate digital needs and uncover fresh opportunities that drive competitive advantage.

Our ultimate objective is to enable our clients to become more agile, intelligent, and resilient in the face of change.

The Microsoft Compliance and Privacy Architect leads technical personnel in complex implementation of a variety of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Compliance, and Microsoft Priva solutions. Responsibilities for this role will include analyzing, designing, and determining methods to achieve customer business goals for hybrid and cloud-based Microsoft compliance, security, and privacy outcomes. The Compliance and Privacy Architect considers business needs, and customer discovery and/or problem information, considers several possible approaches to resolve, and identifies the approach which is the best fit for the customer’s business and/or technical guidance from Microsoft.

The ideal candidate will have experience considering several conflicting requirements and identifying how to implement them together and/or demonstrate experience guiding customers to make decisions as to which implementation requirements take priority.

This role will be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge with the implementation and/or support of hybrid Microsoft 365 environments, with the ability and experience communicating solutions to others and/or coaching junior team members as part of a solution. Cloud experience within Microsoft 365 and/or Azure platforms is required. This candidate will exhibit a consultative communication style to clients on cloud solutions. The candidate must be willing to grow technology and infrastructure advanced capabilities with self-paced and formal training, provided by BDO Digital as needed.

Job Duties

Responsible for architecture within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft azure products to be able to design, present, troubleshoot and implement cloud infrastructure compliance and/or privacy solutions including some or all the following:

• Advanced experience designing, documenting, and creating Microsoft 365 solution integrations for security and Compliance.
• Leading small project teams and/or working across geographies with solution teams to create a holistic Microsoft 365 Security and/or Compliance implementation for a customer.
• Lead advanced troubleshooting as a level 3 “engineering” or “architect” Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Priva deployment and integration.
• Configure & troubleshoot Microsoft 365 products, such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Purview to create a customer’s intended data protection and/or compliance outcome.
• Assess a customer’s Microsoft 365, Microsoft Purview, and/or Defender for Cloud Apps configuration against customer requirements and recommend enhancement or optimization opportunities.
• Configure Microsoft Purview advanced audits.
• Working understanding of Microsoft Identity Conditional Apps
• Configure and troubleshoot integrated tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud/Apps or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to consume and/or contribute necessary protection and/or policies for customer outcomes.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Communicate with clients and project leads in a highly professional and timely manner.
• Provide occasional on-call 24/7 support after business hours.
• Other duties as required.
• Working Environment: Hybrid
• Office Timing: 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM IST

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Education:

· B.E/ B.Tech/ MCA

Experience:

· Six (6) or more years of technical infrastructure implementation experience with increasing responsibility within Microsoft 365 Cloud Solutions, required.

• Four (4) or more years of experience in an engineering role implementing Microsoft security and compliance components such as Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft 365 Compliance, or Microsoft 365 security products, preferred.
• Three (3) or more years’ experience in cloud and/or on-premises infrastructure security or with endpoint data loss prevention and/or endpoint security products, preferred.
• Experience implementing technical safeguards for a major regulatory compliance obligation (SOX, PCI, HIPAA, CCPA, GDPR, NIST or similar), strongly preferred.
• Experience working in a consulting or system integrator outsourcing environment, strongly preferred.
• Certification on Microsoft 365 Security and/or Compliance preferred.

Technology:

• Experience with design and implementation in one or more products Microsoft Purview or predecessor technologies from Microsoft Security and Compliance,required.
• Experience with Information Protection labeling and data classification,required.
• Intermediate experience with Microsoft security products for Microsoft 365 and/or Microsoft Azure,preferred.
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud / Microsoft Defender Cloud App Security, or another major industry CASB platform,preferred.
• Microsoft Records Management and/or Information Governance processes,preferred.
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)required.

One or more of the following, required:

• Experience in Design, Deployment, and Management of Endpoint Security Controls
• Experience in managing Endpoint Security technologies like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Experience in managing Endpoint Security technologies like Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Experience in managing security of Cloud workload environments in Microsoft Azure
• Experience designing and deploying security and compliance for Microsoft 365 and/or Microsoft Azure cloud migrations.
• Experience designing data governance rules and/or policies implemented in one or more technical products.

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Expert level experience and/or knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Azure products for security, governance and data protection is preferred.
• Experience with information technology architecture and design
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to troubleshoot issues, identify solutions, and lead small incident teams to complete necessary repairs and implementation.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and communication skills
• Strong project planning, scoping and management skills.
• Strong business process analysis & design and process flow skills
• Client facing consulting experience.
• Capacity to work in a deadline-driven environment while handling multiple projects/tasks simultaneously with a focus on details.
• Capable of successfully multi-tasking while working independently or within a group environment
• Capable of working well under pressure while dealing with unexpected problems in a professional manner
• Ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment.
• Must have excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills.