Active Directory Engineer

About the Opportunity Our client, a leading organization in the banking and financial services industry, is seeking an experienced Identity & Access Management Engineer to support critical enterprise access management initiatives. This contract-to-hire opportunity offers the chance to play a key role in maintaining secure access controls, supporting user lifecycle management, and ensuring identity governance practices align with organizational and regulatory requirements.

This individual will join a team responsible for day-to-day Active Directory operations and work closely with security, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure secure and efficient access across the enterprise.

Project Overview The organization is expanding its identity and access management capabilities and is seeking an experienced professional to help support enterprise-wide access controls within a highly regulated environment. This role will directly impact security, compliance, and operational efficiency by managing user access, permissions, and governance processes.

Key initiatives include:

Strengthening enterprise identity and access management (IAM) practices

Supporting user onboarding, transfers, and offboarding processes

Enhancing Active Directory administration and governance

Maintaining secure access controls and permission management

Partnering with security and compliance teams to support regulatory requirements

Improving IAM processes, documentation, and operational effectiveness

Responsibilities

Support day-to-day identity and access management operations across the enterprise.

Create, administer, and manage Active Directory groups, user accounts, and organizational units.

Configure and maintain permission sets and access controls.

Verify adherence to IAM policies, procedures, and security standards.

Serve as a subject matter expert for end-user lifecycle management, including provisioning and deprovisioning access.

Troubleshoot account access issues and resolve identity-related incidents.

Collaborate with security, compliance, and IT teams to ensure proper access governance.

Partner with internal stakeholders, vendors, and service providers to maintain IAM-related services.

Support continuous improvement efforts for identity governance and access management processes.

Contribute to enterprise technology initiatives involving access management and directory services.

Required Qualifications 5+ years of Active Directory administration experience. (Mandatory, non-negotiable experience)
Experience creating and managing Active Directory groups and user accounts.

Strong understanding of organizational units (OUs), permissions delegation, and account administration.

Familiarity with Group Policy concepts and enterprise access management practices.

Experience troubleshooting authentication and account access issues.

Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles and best practices.

Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams.

Experience working in enterprise environments with security and compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting regulated environments such as banking, financial services, healthcare, or similar industries.

Background working with user lifecycle management processes.

Experience partnering with security and compliance teams.

Exposure to enterprise governance, risk, and access control frameworks.

Experience working with third-party vendors and service providers.

Work Environment On-site position located in Sioux Falls, SDStandard business hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Contract-to-hire opportunity

Collaborative environment working alongside security, compliance, and IT leadership teams

Job Type & Location This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Sioux Falls, SD.Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $25.00 - $40.00/hr individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k)…