Associate Principal Architect - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Associate Principal - Architecture Job Title- DWP VDI Architect LocationIndia Any LTIM office preferably in Bangalore Key areas of responsibility Lead technical design technical direction and solution Architectlevel CITRIX VMWare MS AVD Virtualization skills and experience designing installing configuring managing and troubleshooting complex and large deals Architectlevel skills optimizing performance scalability security highavailability monitoring printing connectivity group policy Administratorlevel skills operating Intune Mobility and Virtualization CITRIX VMware Provide a comprehensive endtoend architecture for the stakeholders business and technical requirements Ensuring the solution aligns across the business for people process and systems domains Gather business and technical requirements from internal and external stakeholders to produce a requirements specification document Analyze and investigate possible solutions to meet the customers business and technical requirements Produce professional highlevel solution descriptions and obtain customer acceptance of these solutions Be responsible for the technical solution through all phases of the project support the project managers and work within a defined change management process Experience migrating virtual desktops from onprem to cloud Tenant to Tenant Experience using FSlogix technologies for user and office 365 profiling requirement Implement Azure site recovery for workload replication for BCDR requirements Take accountability for applying implementing maintaining and examining the documentation of the AVD RequirementsProven experience of leading Virtual Desktop design and implementation effort on complex projects including the planning tracking and controlling of infrastructure project activities Strong experience of technically leading complex projects throughout the complete IT lifecycle Analysis Architecture Design Build Test Production Experience of working in a matrix organization Experience of technically leading projects throughout the complete IT Development Lifecycle from requirements capture to handover and knowledge transfer The candidate will have the capability to organize and run requirement capture workshops as well as proactively listening to user needs The candidate should be able to lead the customer relationship Disciplined and rigorous approach to network and infrastructure design and ability to ask challenging questions about the requirements and architecture of the infrastructure at each level of the hierarchy Strong understanding of Azure cloud services and concepts supporting IaaS PaaS and SaaS including networking compute storage subscriptions and security Experience with IP Networking VNet peering Azure Firewall and Azure Active Directory Education Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or other related field or equivalent work experience Other AttributesExcellent written oral and presentation skills Ability to explain technical procedures in business terms so that customers understand Ability to develop strategic customer relationships gain trust and respect for the team Able to solve complex technical problems through sound and methodical troubleshooting Collaborate with engineering development and product teams to evaluate and identify optimal solutions for the services provided Shown experience within the implementation management and support of Virtual Desktop environments Familiarity with Windows and Azure automation tools