Principal IT Infrastructure Engineer (Microsoft Entra)

Please note, this position is designated as flexible, which means the selected candidate may be required to report to the assigned office in Greensboro, NC at least part of the time each week.

Technical Summary:

The IT Operations Entra team is responsible for the engineering, administration, and continuous improvement of Microsoft Entra services that provide enterprise cloud identity, authentication, authorization, and access management capabilities across the organization. This senior technical role serves as a subject matter expert for Microsoft Entra services and is responsible for leading the delivery, modernization, and ongoing evolution of core identity capabilities, including hybrid identity synchronization, Microsoft Entra Connect, authentication services, privileged access management, role-based access control, enterprise applications, and application identities. The position provides technical leadership for the engineering, implementation, administration, and operational sustainment of Microsoft Entra services across multiple tenants, while contributing to platform standards, automation, and operational best practices. This role partners closely with Azure Platform, IAM, Security, Microsoft 365, and application teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable identity services while advancing platform capabilities and operational excellence across the enterprise.

Job Summary:

This senior level individual contributor is primarily responsible for serving as the lead technical expert across project teams, setting technical direction across technical solutions, and overseeing all IT systems.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Leads a team of IT consultants in the development of requirements, for process or system solutions which may span multiple business domains by leveraging partnerships with stakeholders and appropriate IT teams (for example, Solutions Delivery, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture).
• Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements (for example, SMART) across the enterprise.
• Leads and oversees the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of highly unique or complex solution proposals.
• Leads the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by translating how current processes impact business operations across the enterprise.
• Leads teams of IT Consultants in the mapping of current state against future state processes.
• Defines the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.
• Provides insight and influence to executive management and business leaders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across the enterprise.
• Reviews, evaluates, and prioritizes value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
• Leads solution design by translating requirements into workable business solutions and leading in design sessions with IT teams.
• Recommends and advocates for additional data and/or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solutions design.
• Leads the evaluation of third-party vendors as directed.
• Drives continuous process improvement by leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across the enterprise.
• Recommends and advocates for regional and national process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.