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Are you a Technical Engineer who is looking to join one of the top companies in the Banking industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in systems design, management or architecture?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work onsite with our client in Buffalo, NY. Interested?          

Here's what you'd do:

• The engineer will play a critical role in evaluating the current VDI environment, architecting the future state DaaS platform, and leading the migration, operationalization, and ongoing optimization of the solution.
• This position will also provide technical leadership and mentorship within the VDI team and partner closely with internal infrastructure, security, networking, identity, and application teams.
• A deep understanding of Microsoft Azure architecture, security, identity, and hybrid connectivity, combined with strong expertise in Citrix technologies, is required.
• The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to clearly communicate and influence across teams.
• Work closely with Technology management, senior Engineers, and support teams on a regular basis to implement and manage the design, development, and execution of technical solutions that meet or exceed current and future needs of the organization.
• Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Regularly and independently interact with business partners of varying associate and management levels to ensure clarity of the problem/opportunity and elicit business requirements.
• Coordinate vendor interactions or vendor resources as needed.
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, technicians, and integrators.
• Review documentation, proposals, and changes proposed by less experienced staff.
• Seek to expand knowledge and understanding of Financial Services trends, practices, and technologies on a continuous basis.
• Follow and promote use of industry best practices, standards and procedures.
• Maintain a strong aptitude and working knowledge of Bank applications, systems, development environments.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of vendor technologies and services used by the Bank.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client Bank brand.
• Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.
• Evaluate the existing on‑prem or legacy VDI platforms and develop a clear migration and modernization strategy.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, design documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with security, networking, identity, and cloud teams to ensure proper integration with Azure, Entra ID, and on‑prem systems.
• Coordinate vendor engagements with Citrix and related partners as needed
• Mentor and coach junior engineersreview and provide guidance on designs, changes, and implementations.
• Independently engage with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, assess constraints, and recommend solutions.
• Promote and follow industry best practices for cloud, VDI, and endpoint virtualization technologies.
• Identify risks, performance issues, or control gaps and escalate appropriately.
• Ensure compliance with client Bank risk management, regulatory standards, and internal controls
• Support audit activities and ensure timely remediation of findings.
• Architecting and delivering the future-state Citrix DaaS platform within client Bank's Azure tenant
• Driving innovation to support a modern, secure, cloud-first workforce
• Designing and implementing Citrix Cloud services, including Citrix DaaS ,Uber Agent, Citrix Device Trust and App Protection.
• Application containerization, streaming, and optimization for virtual environments
• Developing automation to streamline provisioning, access, entitlements, and lifecycle management
• Designing and delivering platform health, performance, and experience metrics,
• leveraging APIs, Graph, and Power BI
• Serving as a subject matter expert for Citrix and VDI-related technologies across the organization
• Serve as the senior technical specialist for Citrix and VDI technologies, providing architecture guidance, engineering leadership, and hands-on implementation.
• Lead the design, deployment, migration, maintenance, and monitoring of the Citrix DaaS environment in Azure.
• Evaluate the existing on‑prem or legacy VDI platforms and develop a clear migration and modernization strategy.
• Partner closely with Technology management, senior engineers, and support teams to deliver solutions that meet current and future business needs.
• Design infrastructure architectures that account for security, scalability, resiliency, performance, and regulatory requirements.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $ 70.00/hour

Hours: 40 hours/week 

Length:  Contract (12 month)

Sound like a good fit

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier provider of recruiting and workforce solutions-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in a variety of industries around the world, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that Drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.