Citrix / Azure Virtual Desktop Architect

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

UNC Health is seeking a Citrix / Azure Virtual Desktop Architect to lead the strategy, architecture, support and modernization of our enterprise virtual desktop and application delivery platforms in a large, complex healthcare environment. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of virtual end-user computing for a health system supporting caregivers, clinical operations, and business teams across North Carolina.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert for the enterprise virtual application and desktop platform.
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference designs, capacity models, and lifecycle strategies for virtual desktop platforms.
• Evaluate platform options, including Citrix enhancements and Azure Virtual Desktop, and provide architecture guidance, trade-off analysis, and recommendations.
• Design and support on-premises and hybrid architecture aligned with UNC Health’s infrastructure and cloud strategies.
• Design and implement Citrix infrastructure, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS), Citrix StoreFront, Citrix Studio, Citrix Director, and Citrix Workspace Environment Manager (WEM).
• Ensure high availability, resiliency, and scalability across multiple Citrix sites.
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex platform issues affecting performance, stability, and availability.
• Partner with cloud and infrastructure teams to design hybrid Citrix and cloud architecture.
• Participate in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) evaluations or pilots from a platform architecture perspective.
• Ensure integration with identity, networking, security, and monitoring frameworks.
• Drive profiles, policy, and platform optimization.
• Mentor Citrix and virtualization engineers on architecture patterns, standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams on platform initiatives.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps, major upgrades, and architectural decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Windows client/server networking, including Windows domain and authentication, Active Directory, logon scripts, policies, and client and network security.
• 5+ years of experience with server configuration and installation, performance and network monitoring tools, operating system upgrades and migrations, and advanced troubleshooting across hardware and software.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop, Citrix Workspace Environment Manager (WEM), Citrix StoreFront, and Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop.
• Experience with Citrix PVS, including Azure deployment strategies.
• Experience with Citrix StoreFront.
• Experience with Microsoft Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
• Experience with authentication methods and identity integration.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
• Relevant certifications such as ITIL, Citrix, or Microsoft Azure certifications.