Senior Active Directory & Identity Architect

M&T Bank Corporation; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation seeks an experienced Active Directory Architect to design, secure, and operate AD DS in regulated environments. You will lead identity initiatives, integrate on-prem and cloud directories, and drive automation with PowerShell. Strong focus on Zero Trust, audits, and risk controls.

Location is Buffalo, NY; the role emphasizes collaboration with Information Security and IAM teams and ongoing governance of enterprise identity standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years’ relevant work experience, or 9 years’ combined higher education/work experience.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Active Directory Architecture and design.
• Support large-scale identity infrastructures with uptime and change-control focus.
• Hybrid Identity with Entra ID (Azure AD) and on-prem AD integration.
• Automation and provisioning via PowerShell scripting.
• Security, compliance and risk controls aligned to financial regulations.
• Audit readiness and evidence generation for SOX/PCI DSS.

Skills

AD DS

Azure AD

PowerShell

Zero Trust

Security hardening

Privileged access

Audit readiness

SOX/PCI DSS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Entra Connect

Job description

M&T Bank Corporation seeks an experienced Active Directory Architect to design, secure, and operate AD DS in regulated environments. You will lead identity initiatives, integrate on-prem and cloud directories, and drive automation with PowerShell. Strong focus on Zero Trust, audits, and risk controls.

Location is Buffalo, NY; the role emphasizes collaboration with Information Security and IAM teams and ongoing governance of enterprise identity standards.