Job Purpose: The VDI Solutions Architect will lead the end-to-end design, capacity planning and roadmap for enterprise VDI and workspace services across on-prem, hybrid and cloud models. You’ll partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure VDI architectures and govern standards, best practices and automation frameworks. 3. Key Responsibilities: Solution Design & Roadmap Drive the creation of High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) design artifacts for VDI and workspace services. Conduct capacity planning, sizing exercises and TCO/ROI analyses for new VDI projects. Platform Strategy & Governance Define and enforce standards, best practices and naming conventions for VDI builds, images, and policies. Establish a governance model for change control, security posture and lifecycle management. Automation & Integration Architect infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/PowerShell/Ansible) frameworks for repeatable VDI deployments. Integrate VDI with identity, endpoint management and cloud orchestration platforms (e.g., Azure AD, Okta, Workspace ONE). Performance Optimization & Capacity Management Lead performance tuning, capacity forecasting and proactive scaling plans. Develop monitoring dashboards and runbooks for trend analysis and cost optimization. Cross-Functional Leadership Facilitate workshops with application, networking and security teams to align on interoperability requirements. Mentor junior engineers and review technical designs for compliance with enterprise architecture. 4. Required Skills & Qualifications Retain existing “Strong expertise in VMware/Omnissa Horizon…NSX…” items, then add: Category Architect-Level Skills Architecture & Design • Designing multi-site, hybrid-cloud VDI topologies (on-prem ➔ Azure/AWS). • Capacity planning, sizing and cost modeling. Automation & Infrastructure as Code • Terraform / Ansible / PowerShell scripting to provision and scale VDI stacks. • CI/CD pipelines for image builds and patch management. Security & Compliance • Defining micro segmentation strategies (NSX-T/Firewalld). • Integrating VDI with enterprise IAM (SAML, OAuth2). Cloud & Hybrid Integration • Hands-on experience with Horizon Cloud on Azure/AWS. • Designing DR and burst-to-cloud scenarios. Performance & Capacity Management • vROPS custom dashboards and predictive analytics. • Storage IOPS/QoS tuning for non-persistent & persistent desktop pools. Leadership & Governance • Establishing architecture review boards and change control processes. • Mentoring and peer-review of HLD/LLD documents. Required Skills & Qualifications: Education Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Experience: Preferred banking experience 10+ years of experience in private cloud infrastructure engineering or similar roles. 5+ years leading VDI design and architecture engagements. Proven track record of managing large-scale private cloud environments.