Principal AD Engineering Solutions Architect

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Sanford Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing not-for-profit health systems in the United States. We're proud to offer many development and advancement opportunities to our nearly 50000 members of the Sanford Family who are dedicated to the work of health and healing across our broad footprint.

Facility: Remote MN

Location: City - Remote MN MN

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Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts

Job Schedule: Full time

Weekly Hours: 40.00

Job Summary

The Principal AD Engineering Solutions Architect will serve as the technical authority and subject matter expert in designing implementing managing and optimizing Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365 (M365) environments. This role involves leading architectural design efforts ensuring the security and scalability of the infrastructure and driving continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise strategic vision and leadership to enhance Active Directory services and M365 solutions. Active Directory Expertise:Lead the design implementation and management of the organization's Active Directory infrastructure including security replication and high availability.

Drive AD-related migrations upgrades and enhancements to ensure a secure and reliable environment.

Microsoft 365 Expertise:Oversee the design security compliance and administration of the M365 ecosystem including Exchange Online SharePoint Teams OneDrive and related services.

Provide architectural guidance and lead integration efforts with third-party solutions where required.

Technical:Act as a key technical leader for the IT infrastructure team mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Develop and maintain technical documentation policies and procedures for AD and M365 systems.

Lead incident management and root cause analysis for complex issues affecting Active Directory or M365.

Prioritize and complete tickets according to impact to Sanford Health business functions. The position includes on-call rotation and supporting critical MIM events.

Prepares and implements plans for systems maintenance production activities and necessary support resources. Oversees and leads the infrastructure capacity planning process by collaborating with system owners and vendors to align system capacity with business plans. Prepares cost estimates for current and proposed projects reflecting the technical process and staff requirements.

Responsible for the management and oversight of multiple inter-dependent infrastructure and system integration projects. Oversees all aspects of assigned infrastructure integration projects throughout project lifecycles to ensure completion and alignment to scope quality time and financial requirements.

Leads the infrastructure organization through disaster recovery system resiliency and single-point of failure analysis planning and preparedness. Builds runs and maintains processes to support a living infrastructure disaster plan that aligns with critical business needs. Ensures data recovery maintenance data integrity and space requirements are met across a variety of platforms.

Serves as the senior most expert resource to information technology (IT) groups in planning the resource requirements for systems under development. Performs technical due diligence in system acquisition scenarios. Provides executive leaders with analysis insights gaps risks and opportunities for consideration in system acquisition. Develops and proposes enterprise system roadmaps. Analyzes systems and future state designs for critical dependencies and creates proposals cost estimates and execution plans. Creates and executes on risk mitigation and related system integrations migrations and consolidations.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required with fifteen years information technology and infrastructure leadership and/or hands-on experience. Also will consider Master's degree with ten years experience.

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility a variety of benefits include health insurance dental insurance vision insurance life insurance a 401(k) retirement plan work/life balance benefits and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to [email protected] .

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0203224

Job Function: Information Technology

Featured: No