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Accenture UK & Ireland invites you to apply for the Microsoft Data Protection Architect role, focused on designing secure data solutions across Microsoft 365, Azure, and hybrid environments.

Job Details

  • Job Title: Microsoft Data Protection Architect
  • Location: London / Manchester / Leeds / Birmingham
  • Career Level: Manager
  • Salary: Competitive, based on experience
  • Closing Date: 31/01/2026

Role Purpose

As a client‑facing, delivery‑focused architect, you will lead the design and delivery of data protection solutions, secure client data estates, and drive AI‑enabled security posture.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect Microsoft Purview solutions for Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk Management, Records Management, and Data Lifecycle Management.
  • Design and implement DSPM for AI using Microsoft Purview’s AI‑specific controls to secure generative AI platforms.
  • Conduct AI data risk assessments, including oversharing analysis, data classification, and adaptive protection enforcement.
  • Integrate Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Cloud, Endpoint, Identity, Office 365, XDR) to protect against threats like data poisoning, jailbreaks, and credential theft.
  • Establish compliance frameworks aligned to GDPR, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF.
  • Support pre‑sales and solution shaping workshops, assessments, and roadmap development.
  • Mentor junior architects and consultants and contribute to AMBG capability building and innovation.

Pre‑sales & Solutioning

  • Shape opportunities and technical solutioning for pursuits.
  • Support RFx responses with architecture inputs and delivery approach.
  • Develop reusable assets and share best practices across the team.

Technical Skills

  • Expertise in Microsoft Purview: Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk Management, Records Management, and Data Lifecycle Management.
  • Advanced configuration of sensitivity labels, retention policies, and adaptive protection across Microsoft 365 workloads.
  • Implementation of DSPM for AI environments, including Microsoft Copilot, Fabric, and third‑party LLMs.
  • Risk modelling for prompt injection, oversharing, and data poisoning in generative AI workflows.
  • Use of Microsoft Purview AI‑specific controls for classification, policy enforcement, and reporting.

Manager‑Level Skills

  • Experience leading data protection programmes.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, lineage, and compliance (Purview, security, privacy).
  • Stakeholder management and ability to influence senior client decision‑makers.
  • Competence in estimating, shaping SoWs, and managing RAIDs for large‑scale data protection programmes.

Certifications & Experience

  • Industry experience in Microsoft 365 and Azure security architecture.
  • Deep understanding of AI data risks and compliance frameworks.
  • Certifications: SC‑400, SC‑401, SC‑300, SC‑100.
  • Microsoft Purview: Information Protection, DLP, Insider Risk, Records Management, DSPM for AI.
  • Microsoft Intune: Endpoint protection and policy enforcement.
  • Microsoft Fabric: Secure data engineering and AI development environments.
  • Microsoft Sentinel: SIEM/SOAR integration.
  • Security Copilot: Embedded and standalone threat detection and response.

Benefits

Competitive basic salary, extensive benefits package including 30 days vacation. Flexibility and mobility required to deliver the role with onsite client engagement.

Inclusion and Diversity

Accenture believes in inclusion, diversity, and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, and Integrity.

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