Senior IT Specialist - M365 & Active Directory Architect

Senior It Specialist - M365 & Active Directory Architect

Eaton's Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Senior IT Specialist - M365 & Active Directory Architect. The preference is for this position to sit at our Beachwood, OH or Moon Township, PA location however will consider candidates in the other following locations: Galesburg MI, Houston TX, Menomonee Falls WI, or Raleigh NC.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $130000 - $190000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Job Responsibilities

Your essential responsibilities include:

• Major decision owner for M365 & AD platform Strategy, Roadmap, design, development, and implementation
• Leads overall effort and works with resources across functions to deliver technology platform, and system solutions to meet customer requirements, providing solution options, making recommendation, and highlighting operational or security risks, as well as providing alternative options
• Defines standards for technologies, platforms, and systems to meet organization requirements
• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes with required controls and compliance including CMMC, ITAR, GDPR etc.
• Leads lifecycle management activities for technology, platform, systems, and related documentation to ensure operational health and security.
• Monitors technology, platform, and systems to ensure required performance, availability, and capacity. Identifies and eliminates gaps in monitoring and potential impact on service delivery.
• Work with Security, Legal and other groups including Work Council to define Governance and policy for the platform.
• Define data retention strategy and implement appropriate policy to meet organization requirements while making sure the security standards are met.
• Follows industry best practices to maximize quality and efficiency
• Consistently utilize key ITIL processes to solve complex cross platform infrastructure issues with in-depth troubleshooting approach and provide most feasible options and recommend best solutions to specified problem including RCA.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors' degree from an accredited
• Minimum twelve (12) years IT experience
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience in Microsoft Technology domain including Active Directory/M365/Exchange
• No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Beachwood, OH: Moon Township, PA: Galesburg MI: Houston TX: Menomonee Falls WI: or Raleigh NC.
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future

Technical knowledge

• Proven experience of Microsoft M365 suits of applications including Teams, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot etc.

• Extensive understanding of Commercial Cloud, Govt. Cloud and Regional Microsoft Cloud instances.

• Extensive knowledge of Active Directory including Entra ID, and Entra Connect Sync

• Extensive knowledge of Design and management of single‑forest and multi‑forest environments

• Extensive knowledge of Domain and forest functional level planning and upgrades

• Extensive knowledge of Trust design and management (forest, external, selective authentication)

• Experience with Schema governance, extension planning, and change control

• Experience with Kerberos and NTLM authentication flows

• Experience with Disaster recovery and forest/domain recovery planning

• Experience with Split‑brain DNS and namespace planning

• Experience with Domain consolidation, separation, and coexistence planning and Domain lifecycle management for M&A, divestitures, and spin‑offs

• Experience with end point management & security using Intune.

• Experience in M365 tenant deployment, change management and configuration

• Experience with M365 retention and data protection.

• Experience with deploying Identity governance controls and Conditional Access

• Experience with managing Exchange Hybrid organizations

• Experience with policy & Governance in a complex global organization

• Experience with Microsoft Teams global administration, 3rd party app integrations, dashboarding etc.

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Copilot, Agent governance and Powershell.

• Good to have hands on M365 tenant to tenant migration experience

• Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator expert certification preferred

Skills

Soft Skills:

• Excellent proficiency with the English language (written and verbal). Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Requires conceptual thinking to understand complex issues and their implications across organization.

• Advanced in interpreting, explaining and advising on complex information to stakeholders.

• Advanced in thinking and acting strategically to deliver results that impact beyond the immediate work area to achieve annual results.

• Demonstrates core leadership attributes.

• Ability to relate well with people at all levels of organization

• Demonstrates accountability, passion and ability to learn quickly

• Ability to lead complex tasks with no supervision

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and make decisions

• Strong ethics and values