Azure AVD Enterprise Cloud Architect Lead

Charter Communications; San Antonio (TX); Remote; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Charter Communications seeks a senior AVD Architect to guide Azure, EUC strategies and architectural roadmaps for enterprise environments. You will translate business goals into scalable AVD solutions, ensuring secure, cost-efficient deployments and ongoing optimization.

You will collaborate with executive stakeholders, design reference architectures, and mentor teams to raise RapidScale’s Azure capabilities. Candidates should showcase deep AVD expertise and cloud-native engineering proficiency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years overall experience with cloud architecture.
• 4+ years hands-on Azure architecture experience.
• 3+ years hands-on Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale AVD environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with senior and C-level stakeholders to define Azure, AVD, and EUC strategies aligned to business and technology objectives.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective AVD architectures.
• Lead discovery and architecture sessions to understand business drivers, user requirements, and dependencies.
• Define enterprise AVD architecture, standards, reference designs, and roadmaps across infrastructure, networking, identity, security, applications, and operations.
• Develop TCO models, capacity assessments, optimization strategies, and technology recommendations for AVD investments.
• Provide technical leadership across the architecture lifecycle from strategy to implementation.
• Partner with Sales, Engineering, Delivery, and Cloud Operations teams to shape solutions and align stakeholders.
• Develop executive-ready architecture recommendations and documentation.
• Mentor architects and engineers to establish best practices for RapidScale’s AVD capabilities.

Skills

Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Compute

Azure Virtual Networks

Identity & Access

PowerShell

CI/CD

Azure Monitor

Entra ID

Active Directory

Cost optimization

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

MS in related field

PhD with experience

12+ years total experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Job description

Charter Communications seeks a senior AVD Architect to guide Azure, EUC strategies and architectural roadmaps for enterprise environments. You will translate business goals into scalable AVD solutions, ensuring secure, cost-efficient deployments and ongoing optimization.

You will collaborate with executive stakeholders, design reference architectures, and mentor teams to raise RapidScale’s Azure capabilities. Candidates should showcase deep AVD expertise and cloud-native engineering proficiency.