End User Compute Architect

It’s a global financial services firm. Need STRONG Intune/modern management, a real SCCM-to-Intune migration behind them, and a financial or professional-services background. Position Overview Our client is conducting a confidential search for an experienced End User Compute Architect to help modernize and optimize their end-to-end computing environment. This person will serve as both a strategic architect and hands-on leader, helping shape the future state of endpoint management, infrastructure, vendor relationships, and user experience. The organization is currently evolving its environment, including continued investment in Intune, Zscaler, and endpoint modernization initiatives. They’re looking for someone who can evaluate the entire End User Compute function and answer questions such as

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. \n

• Experience balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution. \n

• Strong hands-on experience with Windows 11 endpoint management in an enterprise environment. \n

• Hands-on hardware evaluation - benchmarking and certifying enterprise laptop and desktop models (e.g. HP, Dell) and defining device acceptance criteria. \n

• Strong hands-on Intune experience - policy authoring, compliance profiles, app management, and configuration baselines across Windows and macOS, as the primary management platform. \n

• Hands-on Zscaler administration and management - ZIA and ZPA policy configuration via the admin portals, plus deploying and troubleshooting the Zscaler Client Connector (ZCC) on managed endpoints, including SSL inspection and always-on forwarding. \n

• Working knowledge of SCCM / MECM as a legacy platform - task sequences, software distribution, ADRs, and SCCM/Intune co-management. \n

• Experience with Windows Autopilot - deployment profiles, enrollment, and troubleshooting. \n

• Proven experience managing Windows feature-update cycles (22H2, 23H2, 24H2/25H2) across an enterprise estate using ring-based deployment, with compatibility testing and rollback planning. \n

• Demonstrable experience leading to migration from SCCM to Intune and Autopilot - co-management, workload transition, pilot ring design, and decommissioning of legacy SCCM infrastructure. \n

• Strong PowerShell scripting scripts, health-check automation, scheduled reporting, and Microsoft Graph integration for Intune and Entra ID. \n

• Ability to define, measure, and report against endpoint KPIs - patch compliance, provisioning success, encryption coverage, and feature-update adoption - and translate findings into clear documentation and stakeholder communication. \n

• Prior experience in a professional services environment (financial services, consulting, fintech, or law) where high standards of reliability, security, and user experience are expected. \n