Sr. Active Directory Solutions Architect

Architecture and Design:

• Plan for high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and secure access.
• Design Group Policy Objects (GPOs), organizational units (OUs), and delegation models.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement identity governance and secure authentication (e.g., Kerberos, NTLM, smart cards).
• Enforce least privilege access, role-based access control, and auditing policies.
• Ensure the AD environment meets compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, SOX, ISO).

Integration:

• Integrate AD with other identity systems (e.g., Azure AD, LDAP directories, cloud applications).
• Support single sign-on (SSO), federation (e.g., ADFS), and multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Migration and Upgrades:

• Involved in domain migrations, AD forest consolidations, or upgrades
• Plan and execute AD schema extensions and domain functional level upgrades.

Collaboration and Leadership:

• Work closely with security, network, and cloud teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.
• Document architecture, policies, and operational procedures.