Senior Manager Modern Workplace Architecture

Company Summary Statement

As one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the United States, PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), is committed to creating long-term, sustainable value for our 3.5 million customers, our share owners and the communities we serve. Our high-performing regulated utilities — PPL Electric Utilities, Louisville Gas and Electric, Kentucky Utilities and Rhode Island Energy — provide an outstanding experience for our customers, consistently ranking among the best utilities in the nation.

PPL’s companies are also addressing challenges head-on by investing in new infrastructure and technology that is creating a smarter, more reliable and resilient energy grid. We are committed to doing our part to advance a cleaner energy future and drive innovation that enables us to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining energy reliability and affordability for the customers and communities we serve.

PPL is a positive force in the cities and towns where we do business, providing support for programs and organizations that empower the success of future generations by helping to build and maintain strong, diverse communities today.

NOTE:
This role is hybrid requiring 3 days on-site to a local office. Locations:
Allentown, PA;
Louisville, KY or Providence, RI. #LI-Hybrid #INDPPL

The Senior Manager, Modern Workplace Architect is responsible for leading the strategy, architecture, and engineering of PPL’s modern workplace environment, ensuring delivery of a secure, scalable, and high-performing colleague technology experience. This role provides end-to-end ownership across workstation engineering, mobility, endpoint security, patching, and virtual desktop platforms, including AVD and VMware Horizon.

This leader drives standardization, integration, and automation across technologies such as Intune and Autopilot, while ensuring alignment with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and enterprise platforms. The role also plays a critical part in advancing AI-enabled productivity, embedding modern capabilities into everyday workflows to improve colleague efficiency and experience.

The Senior Manager acts as the bridge between strategy and execution, providing technical leadership, enforcing architecture standards, and delivering large-scale workplace modernization initiatives in a complex, highly matrixed environment.

• Lead and own the end-to-end modern workplace architecture and engineering strategy, ensuring delivery of a secure, scalable, and high-performing colleague technology experience aligned to business priorities.
• Serve as the single point of accountability for architecture and integration decisions across all colleague-facing technologies, including endpoint, mobility, and virtualization platforms.
• Lead cross-functional solution design and integration, ensuring alignment across colleague technology, infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, and Service Now platforms.
• Own and lead Workstation Engineering, including Windows endpoint architecture and lifecycle engineering, encompassing enterprise image engineering, configuration standards, build pipelines, and endpoint lifecycle management.
• Own and manage the Microsoft Intune platform and Windows Autopilot strategy and execution, including policy design, compliance frameworks, device configuration, zero-touch provisioning, and end-to-end device onboarding experience.
• Own and govern enterprise software packaging, distribution, and deployment processes, ensuring secure, standardized, and efficient delivery of applications across all endpoint platforms.
• Define, enforce, and continuously evolve enterprise hardware and operating system standards, ensuring consistency, lifecycle alignment, and compliance across all colleague devices.
• Establish and maintain endpoint configuration standards, including Group Policy, cloud-based policies, device baselines, and identity integration with Active Directory and Entra .
• Lead the development and execution of patch and release management strategy, ensuring timely deployment of OS and application updates, minimizing business disruption, and maintaining enterprise compliance.
• Own and…