Enterprise Architect - Active Directory

Project overview

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: Enterprise Architect- Active Directory

Project details

31/08/2027

Job Description:

Technical Architect

Role Context

This role involves leading the design and architecture of software applications, ensuring they meet business requirements and are scalable, secure, and efficient. The successful applicant collaborates with developers and stakeholders, provides technical guidance, and oversees the integration of new technologies and solutions.

This role can be performed remotely. However, if access to client-sensitive data is required, it must be conducted from a secure room in Wroclaw or Gdansk, Poland, or Manchester, England.

Key Responsibilities

As a Technical Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring that technical decisions align with business and IT strategies, with a focus on the technical aspects of solutions, including:

Leading application architecture discovery and due diligence activities for transitioned services.

Conducting architecture workshops with application owners, SMEs, infrastructure, security, and operational teams to validate application supportability and operational readiness.

Assessing application architecture, integrations, security controls, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.

Producing and maintaining architecture assessment artefacts including dependency maps, supportability assessments, risk registers, and transition readiness reports.

Identifying architectural risks, technical debt and operational dependencies that may impact service transition or ongoing support.

Defining remediation actions and transition exit criteria required for service acceptance.

Collaborating with client stakeholders, incumbent suppliers, and internal delivery teams to facilitate knowledge transfer and document critical application dependencies.

Supporting operational service design by documenting ownership models, escalation paths, recovery responsibilities, and support boundaries.

Ensuring architecture documentation, support documentation and operational procedures are aligned and fit for managed service operations.

Providing architectural governance throughout transition, onboarding, and service acceptance activities.

Skills and Experience Required

10+ years of professional experience leading the design, modernisation, and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions. This includes deep technical expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem, familiarity with industry standards, and strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Key competencies for this role include:

Experience leading application transition, onboarding, or service transformation activities within managed service environments.

Strong understanding of application supportability, operational readiness, and service acceptance criteria.

Experience assessing and documenting application integrations, APIs, authentication mechanisms, service accounts, certificates, and secrets management.

Knowledge of identity and access management technologies including Active Directory, Entra ID, service principals and managed identities.

Experience with resilience, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity assessments.

Strong understanding of service management concepts including Incident, Problem, Change and Major Incident Management.

Experience facilitating architecture workshops and engaging with technical and business stakeholders to gather and validate information.

Ability to identify and manage technical debt, operational risks, and architectural dependencies.

Experience producing architecture assessment reports, transition plans, assumption logs, and risk registers.

Soft Skills

Ability to facilitate workshops and drive consensus across multiple stakeholder groups.

Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to identify gaps in documentation and operational knowledge.

Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and building architecture artefacts from incomplete information.

Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and drive risk-based decision making.

Strong knowledge transfer and stakeholder engagement skills.

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible.

Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 31/08/2027
• Location: Remote, UK, GB