Strategic Citrix Migration & Modernization Architect

Harvard Partners, LLP, Trusted Advisors to IT; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvard Partners, LLP is seeking a Citrix Migration Architect to lead the migration and modernization of Citrix infrastructure, serving as the primary SME guiding internal teams through XenApp, ELM, App Layering, and PVS environments.

You will drive architecture, design, migration planning, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness while mentoring staff throughout the engagement, ensuring best practices and timely delivery on enterprise projects.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise Citrix architecture, engineering, and virtualization experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale Citrix environments with hundreds or thousands of users.
• Proven success leading multiple enterprise Citrix migration and modernization projects.
• Experience serving as the lead technical architect and trusted advisor during Citrix transformation initiatives.
• Strong consulting, mentoring, and knowledge transfer experience.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver projects on schedule and within scope.
• Experience building, coaching, and mentoring infrastructure and support teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Citrix SME throughout the engagement.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to internal engineering teams.
• Review and validate architecture decisions.
• Establish Citrix operational best practices.
• Facilitate technical workshops and design reviews.
• Assist leadership with risk identification and mitigation.
• Lead migration of Citrix ELM environments across platforms.
• Assess and document App Layering configurations and OS/Platform Layers.

Skills

Citrix migration leadership

Enterprise Citrix architecture

Technical mentoring

Design and migration planning

Risk identification

Tools

Citrix ELM

Citrix App Layering

Citrix XenApp

Citrix PVS

VMware

Nutanix AHV

Job description

Harvard Partners, LLP is seeking a Citrix Migration Architect to lead the migration and modernization of Citrix infrastructure, serving as the primary SME guiding internal teams through XenApp, ELM, App Layering, and PVS environments.

You will drive architecture, design, migration planning, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness while mentoring staff throughout the engagement, ensuring best practices and timely delivery on enterprise projects.