Active Directory Project Analyst with Powershell

Randstad USA; United States; On-site; USD 76,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

prescription

dental

vision

AD&D

life insurance offerings

short-term disability

401K plan

Job summary

Randstad Digital is seeking a Business Analyst focusing on Active Directory and PowerShell to bridge business stakeholders with IAM engineering. You will analyze identity and access processes, document context, and propose group cleanups, entitlement rationalization, and access-package design.

This contract role emphasizes analysis and recommendations; implementation will be handled by technical teams. Collaboration with security and IT is essential to deliver actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Experience with IAM, identity governance, RBAC, access-package design, or entitlement rationalization.
• Experience supporting Active Directory cleanup, group analysis, RBAC, or access-review initiatives.
• Experience using PowerShell for data analysis, reconciliation, automation, or reporting.
• Experience with ServiceNow workflows related to identity, requests, incidents, changes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with IAM, Information Security, Infrastructure, application owners, IT support teams, and business stakeholders to understand Active Directory groups and access requirements.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and sessions to document how access is used across applications, teams, and business functions.
• Translate technical analysis into clear recommendations for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Extract and analyze Active Directory users, groups, memberships, attributes, and access relationships.

Skills

IAM

RBAC

Access-package design

Entitlement rationalization

PowerShell

Active Directory

Data analysis

ServiceNow

Education

Bachelors

Tools

PowerShell

Excel

Python

Active Directory reporting tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Business Analyst - Active Directory & PowerShell

Position Summary

The Business Analyst - Active Directory & PowerShell serves as a liaison between business stakeholders, Information Security, IAM engineering, application owners, and IT support teams.

This role analyzes identity and access management processes, with a strong focus on Microsoft Active Directory, group and access analysis, role-based access concepts, and user lifecycle controls. The position combines business analysis responsibilities with hands-on technical analysis using PowerShell, Active Directory reporting tools, and structured data.

The analyst will identify access patterns, conduct stakeholder interviews, document business and application context, and make recommendations for group cleanup, entitlement rationalization, and access-package development.

This is primarily an analysis and recommendation role. Implementation and remediation activities will be performed by the appropriate technical and operational teams.

Job Details

location: ,

job type: Contract

salary: $55 - 75 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

Business and Process Analysis

• Partner with IAM, Information Security, Infrastructure, application owners, IT support teams, and business stakeholders to understand Active Directory groups and access requirements.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and working sessions to document how access is used across applications, teams, and business functions.
• Translate technical analysis into clear recommendations for both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Active Directory and Access Analysis

• Extract and analyze Active Directory users, groups, memberships, nested groups, attributes, ownership, and access relationships.
• Identify group relationships and access patterns that can support role-based access and access-package design.
• Identify and recommend remediation for stale, duplicate, unmanaged, poorly owned, or inconsistently assigned groups.

PowerShell and Data Analysis

• Use PowerShell to extract and analyze Active Directory users, groups, memberships, ownership, and attributes.
• Use Excel, Python, or similar tools to clean, compare, reconcile, and report on identity data.

Qualifications

• Experience with IAM, identity governance, role-based access control, access-package design, or entitlement rationalization.
• Experience supporting Active Directory cleanup, group analysis, role mining, or access-review initiatives.
• Experience using PowerShell for data analysis, reconciliation, automation, or reporting.
• Experience with ServiceNow request, incident, change, or identity-related workflows.

Key Measures of Success

• Meaningful access patterns and group relationships are identified.
• Actionable recommendations are produced for cleanup, consolidation, ownership, and access packages.
• Findings are clearly documented and validated with business and technical stakeholders.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [e-mail].

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits

• medical
• prescription
• dental
• vision
• AD&D
• life insurance offerings
• short-term disability
• 401K plan

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.