# Principal Architect - End User Computing

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Architect to own the architecture, reference designs, technical standards, and engineering direction for our end-user computing estate. This is a hands-on-capable role that requires prototyping, proving, and pressure-testing designs personally. The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring the estate is secure by design, cloud-native, automatable, cost-efficient, and genuinely pleasant to use.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Own the target-state architecture for end-user computing

- Produce and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, technical standards, and architecture decision records

- Define the technical roadmap that underpins the EUC strategy

- Continuously evaluate the market and separate genuine capability from vendor narrative

- Act as the design authority for all endpoint change

- Set and police the exception process

- Review and assure supplier and MSP technical designs

- Set engineering standards for configuration-as-code, packaging, testing, release management, and rollback

- Prototype and prove new capability in a lab

- Mentor and technically develop senior engineers and platform leads

- Partner with Cyber Security to embed zero-trust principles at the endpoint

- Architect for regulated and validated environments

- Own the technical response to endpoint-relevant threat scenarios

- Architect the digital employee experience (DEX) telemetry model

- Design for self-healing and self-service by default

- Translate architecture into business consequence for senior stakeholders

- Represent EUC architecture in enterprise architecture forums, security governance, and vendor executive briefings

**Professional Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

- Relevant certifications desirable (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Endpoint Administrator Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert)

**Area of Specialisation**

- End-user computing architecture at global enterprise scale

- Modern endpoint management (Intune/MECM) and macOS management (Jamf)

- Endpoint security architecture and zero-trust design

- Regulated and validated endpoint environments

**Experience Required**

- Overall 15 years and 12+ years in IT infrastructure or end-user computing

- 5+ years in a principal, lead, or enterprise architect capacity

- Architecture ownership for an endpoint estate of 20,000+ devices

- Expert-level, hands-on-derived command of modern endpoint management

- Demonstrable advanced scripting and automation portfolio

- Working fluency in enterprise endpoint security and zero-trust architecture

**Skills/Background**

- Deep technical breadth across Windows and macOS internals, modern endpoint management, identity, endpoint security, application delivery, virtual desktop/cloud PC, and mobile

- Advanced PowerShell and at least one general-purpose language (Python, C#, Go)

- Configuration-as-code and GitOps discipline

- API-first integration

- Telemetry and data craft

- Architectural discipline

- Trade-off reasoning

- Scale intuition

- Technical leadership without authority

- Executive communication

- Constructive challenge

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Cybersecurity
- Design Thinking
- Endpoint Encryption
- Endpoint Security
- End User Services
- Financial Operations
- Jamf Pro
- Network Protocols
- Network Security
- Zero Trust

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