Active Directory Architect
Artech LLC · Posted Nov 11, 2026
- Nutley, New Jersey, United States
- On-site
- Contract · Senior
- 5+ years
Senior Active Directory Architect to support a global identity transformation and account-consolidation initiative associated with HRMS/Workday-driven employee lifecycle processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation planning for Active Directory account migration and consolidation across domains
- Assess the current AD forest and domain architecture, trusts, OU structure, UPNs, authentication flows, group memberships, application dependencies, and identity synchronization
- Design account matching, merging, migration, coexistence, and retirement strategies for users who currently have identities in multiple domains
- Define methods for preserving required attributes, group memberships, application access, permissions, and authentication continuity during migration
- Develop migration runbooks covering discovery, proof-of-concept, pilot, migration waves, validation, rollback, hypercare, and legacy-account retirement
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Nice to have: Global identity-transformation programs
- Nice to have: Employee transfer support between business entities