Senior Manager, Modern Workplace Architecture

Senior Manager, Modern Workplace Architecture / $$$ / Great leadership in place / Strong benefits and bonus

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Salary: $180,000 - $210,000 per year

A bit about us:

Our client is a large, established organization focused on technology innovation, operational excellence, and delivering a secure, seamless digital workplace experience. The organization is investing in modernizing its enterprise technology environment, improving endpoint management, strengthening cybersecurity, and integrating emerging technologies to enhance employee productivity.

This is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking technology organization in a senior leadership role, driving enterprise-wide workplace architecture, engineering standards, and modernization initiatives across a complex environment.

Why join us?

Top tier benefits
Good vacation / time off package
401K / match
HSA match
Hybrid - remote is possible, but will require travel
20-40% bonus - total compensation is around $250,000 (+/-) annually
Tons of growth

Other fun things:

• Enterprise-Wide Impact: Lead the strategy and architecture behind the technology employees rely on every day.
• Technology Modernization: Drive initiatives involving Windows endpoint engineering, cloud-based device management, virtualization, and digital employee experience.
• AI & Innovation: Help integrate AI capabilities into everyday workflows to improve productivity and the employee experience.
• Leadership Opportunity: Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization while collaborating with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business leaders.
• Strategic Ownership: Influence technology roadmaps, enterprise standards, vendor relationships, and large-scale modernization programs.
• Hybrid Flexibility: Work in a hybrid environment with three days per week onsite at a designated office.

Job Details

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end strategy, architecture, and engineering of the enterprise modern workplace environment, ensuring security, scalability, reliability, and alignment with business priorities.
• Provide technical leadership and accountability for endpoint, mobility, workstation engineering, and virtualization platforms.
• Own Windows workstation architecture and lifecycle management, including enterprise imaging, configuration standards, build processes, and device deployment.
• Lead Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot strategy, including device configuration, compliance policies, and automated device provisioning.
• Oversee enterprise software packaging, distribution, and deployment to ensure secure and consistent application delivery.
• Establish hardware, operating system, endpoint configuration, and identity integration standards across the organization.

-Develop and execute patch and release management strategies to maintain security, compliance, and system reliability while minimizing business disruption.

• Lead endpoint security engineering, including encryption, endpoint protection, and compliance controls.
• Oversee mobility engineering and virtual desktop platforms, including Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and VMware Horizon.
• Drive the selection and implementation of Digital Employee Experience (DEX) tools to monitor performance, identify issues proactively, and improve the employee experience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies through proof-of-concept initiatives and pilot programs.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate AI capabilities into the workplace environment and improve employee productivity.
• Establish architecture standards, engineering practices, governance processes, documentation, and performance metrics.
• Provide technical oversight for major initiatives involving Windows 11, endpoint modernization, virtual desktop transformation, and device lifecycle programs.
• Manage technology vendors, managed service providers, contracts, licensing, budgets, and cost optimization.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex endpoint, virtualization, and workplace technology issues.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team, fostering accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to drive adoption, improve service reliability, and deliver a customer-centric workplace experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in end-user technology engineering, architecture, or related IT infrastructure leadership.
• At least 3-5 years of management experience.
• Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise technology standards, architectures, and roadmaps.
• Strong technical background in hardware standards, operating systems, software distribution, and endpoint management.
• Experience with Office 365, plug-in management, and virtual client-side environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendors, budgets, technology deployments, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the utilities industry or another highly regulated environment.
• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Endpoint Administrator Expert, ITIL, or equivalent.
• Experience with Digital Employee Experience tools, virtualization, and modern device management platforms such as Microsoft Intune or SCCM.

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a hands-on technology leader who combines enterprise architecture expertise with strong people management and strategic execution skills. They can set the long-term vision for a modern workplace while overseeing the engineering standards, security controls, integrations, and modernization initiatives required to deliver a reliable, secure, and productive employee technology experience.

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