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Active Directory Architect
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Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) is a diversified healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas with more than 100,000 employees. Through an expansive care network that includes United Surgical Partners International, we operate more than 535 ambulatory centers and surgical hospitals, 50 hospitals and approximately 160 additional outpatient centers and other sites of care. We also operate Conifer Health Solutions, which provides revenue cycle management and value-based care services to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, employers and other clients. Across the Tenet enterprise, we are united by our mission to deliver quality, compassionate care in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.
Drive the future of our Identity and Access Management and become the backbone architect of Tenet’s Active Directory.
Tenet Healthcare is seeking an experienced Active Directory Architect responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining Tenet’s AD infrastructure as well as operations. This role is a critical role for IT and IAM strategy which will help build AD strategy, optimize AD operations by streamlining it to deliver the best user experience. As an AD Architect you will be the leader overseeing AD solutions, building roadmaps and vision to address any AD gaps as well as align AD architecture to address the business risks.
This is a hands-on role which will be both strategic as well as operational, working alongside multiple stakeholders and managed services partners to drive daily AD operations and architecting best in class Active Directory as service model.
REPORTING STRUCTURE & WORK SETTING
Position reports directly to the Senior Director, Identity Access and Application Security, as part of the Identity Access Management team which is a part of Enterprise Cybersecurity function led by our Chief Information Security Officer. The position will be officed in our Dallas, Texas Corporate office, or may be eligible for remote work for the right candidate.
Responsibilities
- Enhance and modernize Active Directory architecture to improve scalability, security, and operational efficiency across forests, domains, DNS, and GPO structures.
- Integrate AD with key IAM platforms (Okta, CyberArk, cloud identity services) to strengthen authentication, access workflows, and healthcare application onboarding.
- Ensure AD availability, performance, and security through proactive monitoring, risk remediation, and robust backup/recovery strategies.
- Support major AD initiatives such as migrations, trust relationships, greenfield builds, and AD/DNS configuration changes tied to business or security programs.
- Develop standards, diagrams, and workflows that govern AD operations and drive consistency across global teams.
- Lead capacity planning and optimization to align directory services with growth, performance requirements, and cost expectations.
- Partner with Cloud Security and Azure teams to align AD strategy with broader cloud roadmap and Zero Trust initiatives.
- Provide leadership to global operations teams and collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, customer focused solutions.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
- 10+ years of work experience in Active Directory architecture and engineering, including multi-forest environments
- Bachelors/Masters’ Degree or related technology degree
- Certifications preferred – PMP, ITIL, Identity Certifications
- Microsoft certifications, Full Stack Engineering and Platform Engineering certs and/or International Information System Security Certification Consortium certification is a plus
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Strong hands-on experience with Active Directory design and operations, including domain controllers, replication, DNS, and GPOs, with a focus on AD architecture across OU structures, trust relationships, multidomain/forest environments, and schema changes.
- Experience contributing to or executing directory consolidation, domain restructuring, or cleanup efforts.
- Ability to monitor and maintain directory availability, replication health, and other operational KPIs.
- Experience improving automation coverage for repeatable tasks.
- Hands-on experience with scripting and automation (e.g.,PowerShell)
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