Senior Horizon VDI Architect

Title: Senior Horizon VDI Architect
Duration: 6-12 Months
Location: Remote work with periodic onsite visits in New York, Jersey City, Columbus, or Tampa

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
An individual who has built enterprise Horizon platforms end-to-end, understands Azure at both the architectural and implementation levels, communicates clearly, collaborates well across siloed teams, documents thoroughly, and can serve as the primary technical expert for Horizon in a fast-moving environment.
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Horizon VDI Architect to support a large-scale transition from Citrix to Omnissa Horizon and the migration of 40,000+ virtual workloads into Microsoft Azure for a major global financial institution. This is a hands-on, full-time dedicated architecture role, embedded within the client s cloud engineering and end user platforms teams.
This architect will design and guide the buildout of Horizon on Azure, integrate identity and security components, collaborate with cloud engineering on landing zone patterns, support app delivery strategies, and ensure end-to-end technical success.
This role is ideal for someone who has led complex Horizon deployments and understands Azure at an enterprise level.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead architecture and design for Omnissa Horizon on Microsoft Azure
Define multi-region Horizon components (Connection Servers, UAGs, App Volumes, DEM)
Integrate Horizon into Azure Landing Zones (networking, security, compute, IAM)
Work closely with cloud engineering on Terraform and infrastructure as code patterns
Partner with security teams on F5 APM, segmentation, identity flows, and SAML
Define image strategy, workload sizing, user personas, and operational patterns
Support application delivery modernization including App Volumes, Workspace ONE, and Intune
Create architecture documentation, diagrams, and deployment patterns
Participate in technical workshops with internal and client engineering teams
Act as the senior technical resource across multiple workstreams
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
Seven or more years designing and implementing Horizon at enterprise scale
Strong hands-on expertise with Horizon Connection Servers, UAG, App Volumes, DEM, and Workspace ONE
Experience with multi-site and multi-region architectures
Azure VDI experience including landing zones, virtual networking, hub-spoke models, network security groups, and identity and access management
Experience collaborating with cloud platform teams, network and security teams, and identity and access management teams
Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools, including the ability to review and guide cloud engineering work
Experience in financial services or highly regulated enterprise environments preferred
Strong communication and documentation skills
NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS
Omnissa or VMware Horizon certifications
Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification
Citrix-to-Horizon migration experience
F5 APM or equivalent technologies
PowerShell or automation scripting background