Lead End-User Computing & Digital Workplace Architect

Mckesson Corporation; Virginia; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking an Endpoint User Computing Architect to lead the target-state architecture for a secure, modern digital workplace across ChromeOS, Google Workspace, GCP, and device management. As a P5 Lead, you will set strategy, reference architectures, and roadmaps while aligning with security, compliance, and cost objectives.

You will mentor engineers, influence senior stakeholders, and guide design reviews across multiple platforms, including desktop, mobile, and virtual applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 10 or more years of relevant technology experience, including significant experience in endpoint, infrastructure, workplace, or cloud architecture.
• Demonstrated architecture experience with enterprise-scale Google Workspace and Chrome Enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Google Workspace administration, organizational units, groups, context-aware access, endpoint controls, Chrome policies, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Chat, and collaboration governance.
• Strong understanding of GCP architecture and services relevant to endpoint access, identity, logging, automation, application delivery, security, networking, and integration.
• Experience designing endpoint solutions across ChromeOS and at least two of the following: Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, virtual desktop, or virtual application delivery.
• Experience with identity federation, SSO, MFA, device trust, lifecycle provisioning, directory synchronization, and role-based administration.
• Strong understanding of zero-trust architecture, endpoint security, data protection, secure browser, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.
• Experience defining reference architectures, technical standards, design patterns, roadmaps, and architecture decision records.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture and multiyear roadmap for endpoint computing and digital workplace capabilities.
• Establish reference architectures, patterns, standards, and technical guardrails for ChromeOS, Chromebooks, Windows, macOS, mobile devices, virtual applications, browsers, collaboration platforms, and productivity services.
• Serve as the lead architecture authority for Google Workspace and Chrome Enterprise, including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Shared Drives, Meet, Chat, identity federation, application access, device policies, browser controls, and data-protection capabilities.
• Design integrations between Google Workspace, GCP, identity providers, endpoint-management platforms, security tools, service-management platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Define architectures for secure access from managed endpoints to applications and data hosted in GCP, SaaS platforms, partner environments, and legacy infrastructure.
• Lead architecture reviews for new endpoint capabilities, major migrations, acquisitions, divestitures, third-party integrations, and workplace transformation initiatives.
• Translate business, security, privacy, regulatory, and operational requirements into reusable technical standards and implementation guidance.
• Provide architectural direction for endpoint identity, authentication, device trust, zero-trust access, privileged administration, encryption, data loss prevention, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and threat protection.
• Evaluate emerging Google, endpoint, AI, automation, and employee-experience technologies and recommend adoption based on business value, risk, interoperability, and total cost.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, platform dependencies, and lifecycle concerns, then define practical remediation and modernization plans.
• Partner with Technical Product Managers to align product roadmaps, architecture strategy, investment priorities, and measurable employee outcomes.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to ensure designs can be implemented, supported, monitored, and continuously improved.
• Guide proof-of-concept activities, design validation, performance testing, resiliency testing, and technical acceptance criteria.
• Maintain architecture decision records, diagrams, standards, patterns, and roadmap documentation.
• Mentor architects and engineers, perform critical reviews of technical deliverables, and raise architecture and engineering maturity across the organization.
• Communicate technical options, risks, costs, and trade-offs clearly to senior technology and business leaders.
• Lead vendor technical evaluations and ensure partner solutions align with architecture, security, interoperability, and service requirements.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Google Workspace expertise

Chrome Enterprise expertise

SSO / MFA experience

Zero-trust security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

Google Workspace Admin Console

GCP

Okta

Jamf

Intune

Job description

McKesson is seeking an Endpoint User Computing Architect to lead the target-state architecture for a secure, modern digital workplace across ChromeOS, Google Workspace, GCP, and device management. As a P5 Lead, you will set strategy, reference architectures, and roadmaps while aligning with security, compliance, and cost objectives.

You will mentor engineers, influence senior stakeholders, and guide design reviews across multiple platforms, including desktop, mobile, and virtual applications.