Remote Endpoint Engineering Senior Systems Architect; VA ESOM

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Kentro is hiring for a Endpoint Engineering Senior Systems Architect to support the VA ESOM contract. The Senior Systems Architect will help formalize Enterprise Engineering planning across five divisions by establishing a consistent, repeatable process for evaluating, prioritizing, and integrating emerging technologies. The architect will define target-state architecture, guide investment and modernization decisions, and translate complex technical considerations into secure, scalable, and actionable recommendations for executive and engineering stakeholders.

The Endpoint Engineering Senior Systems Architect provides enterprise-level architectural leadership to help VA sustain and enhance existing endpoint technologies while evaluating new products and services that address emerging agency needs and capability gaps across its five divisions. Working closely with the VA Endpoint Engineering Director and division stakeholders, the architect assesses current capabilities, identifies improvement and modernization opportunities, and recommends the priorities, standards, and sequencing needed to maintain a secure, resilient, and sustainable endpoint ecosystem.

A central responsibility is formalizing and strengthening VA’s current Enterprise Engineering planning approach through a consistent, repeatable process for evaluating, prioritizing, and integrating technologies across all five divisions.

This position bridges executive decision-making and technical execution. The architect translates agency needs and capability gaps into architectural requirements, evaluates enhancements to existing technologies and proposed new capabilities, and identifies dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and operational impacts. The architect establishes common evaluation criteria addressing mission value, security, interoperability, scalability, lifecycle supportability, resource requirements, and operational readiness. These assessments help the Director determine what to sustain, enhance, modernize, or introduce and how to sequence those efforts.

The role provides an enterprise perspective across desktop and device engineering, endpoint management, mobile technology, macOS, endpoint security, application integration, virtual desktop, and enterprise printing services.

The Senior Systems Architect develops and maintains an Endpoint Modernization Roadmap and Emerging Technology Assessment grounded in stakeholder needs, current-state findings, and documented capability gaps. These deliverables guide coordinated planning across the five divisions, document recommendations and decision points, prioritize evaluations and pilots, and define the architectural and readiness considerations for transitioning approved capabilities into implementation and sustained operations. The architect works with engineering, security, and operational partners to ensure recommendations reduce operational and security risks, protect sensitive Veteran information, and support the Veteran digital experience.

The ideal candidate combines deep endpoint architecture expertise with the judgment, communication skills, and credibility needed to advise senior government leaders.

Remote - This position can be performed remotely…