Principal IT Infrastructure Engineer (Microsoft Entra)

Kaiser Permanente; Greensboro (NC); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Greensboro, NC seeks a senior IT professional to lead Microsoft Entra services engineering, administration, and modernization across multiple tenants. This role requires technical leadership across identity platforms and cross-functional collaboration with Azure, IAM, and Security teams.

The candidate will drive best practices, automation, and operational excellence, guiding projects from requirements through deployment while mentoring teammates and aligning with enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field.
• Minimum ten (10) years experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Drives execution of multiple work streams and translates strategy into requirements.
• Develops procedures, gains cross-functional support, and sets performance standards.
• Leads IT consultants in gathering requirements across business domains.
• Oversees cost-benefit analyses, ROI, and TCO for proposals.
• Guides solution design and coordinates cross-functional design sessions.

Skills

Ambiguity Management

Attention to Detail

Decision Making

Communication

Project Management

Leadership

Teamwork

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field

Job description

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Analytical Skills
• Business Case Development
• Business Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Client Focus
• Crisis Incident Management
• Debugging and Troubleshooting
• Demonstrating Personal Flexibility
• Getting Work Done Through Others
• Innovative Mindset
• Maintain Files and Records
• Managing Diverse Relationships
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Model Development
• Negotiation
• Organizational Skills
• Prioritization
• Process Validation
• Project Management
• Relationship Building
• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
• Technical Documentation
• Vendor Management

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Five (5) years experience working for a health care organization
• Five (5) years experience working for an IT organization

Primary Location: North Carolina,Greensboro,Greensboro Administration

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Day

Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM

Working Hours End: 05:00 PM

Job Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Worker Location: Flexible

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Department: KPIT ADMIN - ITO IPS IO INFA OPS - 9601

Pay Range: $147900 - $191400 / year

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education certifications skills, and geographic location.

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Travel: No

Work Setting: Flexible

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.