Hybrid Digital Workplace, Principal Architect

at Fannie Mae

• Job title: Digital Workplace, Principal Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $200,000 - $269,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Reston, United States

About the role

• Principal Architect leading enterprise architecture standards and transformation initiatives for Digital Workplace platforms at Fannie Mae. Overseeing Microsoft 365 services and ensuring compliance in financial contexts.

Responsibilities

• Own and publish enterprise architecture standards and long-term technology direction across endpoint engineering, collaboration, mobility, telephony, virtual desktop (VDI/DaaS) and related workplace platforms.
• Lead large-scale platform transformation initiatives, including rationalization of legacy tooling and migration to modern native management solutions (e.g., Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager).
• Establish and enforce architecture patterns and guardrails for desktop baselines, image lifecycle governance, software packaging frameworks, patch orchestration strategies, and endpoint compliance/reporting.
• Provide architectural authority and solution review for Microsoft 365 services (Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online), identity integration, and unified collaboration experience design.
• Define secure configuration and performance architectures for virtual desktop and desktop-as-a-service deployments to meet user-experience and operational objectives.
• Operationalize Digital Employee Experience (DEX) capabilities to enable proactive service management, observability, and workplace analytics.
• Serve as a primary technical representative during regulatory reviews, internal control assessments, and architecture governance forums.
• Partner closely with Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure workplace technologies meet auditability, data protection, change governance, and operational resilience requirements.
• Mentor engineering teams, review detailed solution designs, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and long-term architecture strategy.
• Translate emerging workplace innovations (including AI-enabled productivity such as Microsoft Copilot) into practical, defensible enterprise architectures.

Requirements

• 8 years’ experience in digital workplace architecture, endpoint engineering leadership, enterprise collaboration platforms, or related infrastructure domains.
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise architecture standards or platform direction in large, complex organizations.
• Deep technical expertise in Microsoft 365 architecture, Teams/Exchange/SharePoint and identity integration.
• Hands-on experience with desktop baseline engineering, image lifecycle management, software packaging, patch governance, and endpoint compliance reporting.
• Proven leadership and delivery experience migrating legacy endpoint management platforms to modern solutions such as Microsoft Intune and Configuration Manager.
• Experience designing or governing enterprise-scale virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) or DaaS environments.
• Experience deploying or scaling Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platforms (e.g., Nexthink, Aternity, or similar).
• Extensive experience operating within highly regulated government, defense, or financial services environments.
• Demonstrated experience engaging auditors, regulators, or internal governance bodies to defend architecture decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Benefits

• Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits and perks that enhance an employee's physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being