To strengthen our team, we are looking for an experienced Citrix Architect (m/f/d).In this role, you will provide the architectural foundation for a secure, resilient, and standardized Citrix platform supporting business-critical workloads. You will directly influence the platform’s transformation, operational stability, security, and future delivery model.
Your responsibilities:- Design secure, scalable, and highly available cloud, on-premises, and hybrid Citrix solutions.
- Define the architecture of core platform components, including Citrix DaaS, Virtual Apps and Desktops, VDAs, PVS, WEM, StoreFront, Cloud Connectors, NetScaler/ADC, Delivery Controllers, FAS, profiles, images, policies, Machine Catalogs, and Delivery Groups.
- Create and review high-level and low-level designs, architecture diagrams, technical standards, security concepts, decision papers, and migration concepts.
- Define reusable architecture standards, patterns, and governance principles that can be applied across Helios and other Fresenius business segments.
- Drive platform harmonization, standardization, cloud migration, license consolidation, and the retirement of legacy components.
- Translate business, clinical, security, and operational requirements into reliable and supportable Citrix solutions, considering availability, performance, latency, data residency, sensitive-data protection, and service continuity.
- Define identity and access requirements, including Active Directory and Entra dependencies, MFA, privileged access, service accounts, session recording, and role-based authorization.
- Coordinate dependencies across network, cloud, hosting, identity, security, monitoring, and application teams, and provide architectural governance and technical direction to internal delivery teams and external service providers.
- Plan and support platform implementations, pilots, migrations, testing, capacity planning, cutovers, rollback scenarios, decommissioning, business continuity, disaster recovery, and high-availability concepts.
- Provide technical leadership for complex incidents and problems, maintain architecture and handover documentation, and contribute to capacity, license, and cost planning as the technical basis for commercial decisions.
Your qualifications:
- Academic qualification in information technology or comparable professional experience.
- Extensive experience with large, distributed, and business-critical Citrix environments.
- Strong knowledge of Citrix DaaS/Cloud, Virtual Apps and Desktops, PVS, WEM, StoreFront, NetScaler/ADC, FAS, Citrix Workspace, and Azure integration.
- Proven experience in hybrid cloud and on-premises architecture, including HLD and LLD creation, capacity planning, lifecycle management, migrations, security, and identity integration.
- Ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into sustainable, secure, and supportable solutions.
- Strong analytical, risk-management, and problem-solving capabilities, as well as clear, structured, and audience-appropriate communication.
- Experience with healthcare IT, clinical applications, regulated environments, or similarly business-critical infrastructure is an advantage.
- Fluent German skills and good English skills, both spoken and written; relevant Citrix, Microsoft Azure, ITIL, or architecture certifications are an advantage.
Why join our team:
- A key architecture role within a business-critical technology environment.
- The opportunity to shape the future Citrix platform and transformation roadmap.
- Collaboration with international infrastructure, security, cloud, application, and service-management teams.
- Work across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based delivery models.
- A high level of technical responsibility and visibility.
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