End User Technology Solutions Architect

Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals — we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours. We are seeking an experienced Digital Workplace & End User Technology Architect to play a key role in designing the technology experience for a new corporate headquarters. This is an opportunity to help create a workplace of the future from the ground up. The successful candidate will assess emerging workplace technologies, recommend solutions, develop standards and architectures, and work hands-on with internal teams and vendors to bring those solutions to life. The primary focus of this role is the employee technology experience—understanding how people will work within the new headquarters and identifying technology that makes that experience more intuitive, connected, productive and seamless. This individual should have a strong understanding of the modern workplace technology landscape and be able to answer questions such as: What technology should a next-generation office have? How can technology remove friction from the workday? The successful candidate must be comfortable being hands-on, evaluating and configuring technologies, leading Proofs of Concept (POCs), troubleshooting integrations and working directly with implementation teams and technology partners. Lead the technology vision and solution architecture for the end-user experience within a new corporate headquarters. Assess the current and emerging digital workplace technology landscape and recommend technologies that could improve how employees work, collaborate and interact with the office. Design the end-to-end employee technology experience across workstations, meeting rooms, collaboration spaces, shared spaces and mobile working environments. Develop technology standards and reference architectures for the new headquarters and future workplace environments. Design and establish standards for next-generation meeting rooms and collaboration spaces, including video conferencing, audio/visual technologies, wireless presentation, room controls, cameras, microphones, displays and collaboration platforms. Evaluate technologies that improve the in-office experience, including room and desk booking, digital signage, workplace applications, occupancy and environmental technologies, wayfinding, visitor technology and smart-office solutions. Evaluate opportunities to simplify the employee journey through technologies such as mobile experiences, automation, self-service, passwordless authentication and zero-touch provisioning. Understand how employees move through and use the workplace and identify technology-related friction points that can be eliminated or improved. Evaluate emerging technologies and lead Proof of Concept (POC), pilot and technology evaluation initiatives before enterprise adoption. Research and provide recommendations on new technologies, vendors and approaches based on business requirements and employee experience objectives. Work closely with corporate real estate, facilities, networking, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture and business stakeholders to ensure technology is integrated into the overall workplace design. Partner with architects, construction teams, AV integrators and technology vendors throughout the design and build of the new headquarters. Translate employee and business requirements into practical technical solutions and architectural designs. Provide hands-on technical leadership during solution configuration, testing, integration and deployment. Design and evolve endpoint technologies across laptops, mobile devices and other employee-facing technologies. Develop modern endpoint management, provisioning and configuration approaches using technologies such as Microsoft Intune, Autopilot and Microsoft Entra ID. Identify opportunities to automate provisioning, authentication, application delivery and other employee technology interactions. Establish standards for device connectivity, docking, displays, peripherals and workstation technology. Ensure workplace technologies integrate effectively with enterprise networking, identity, security and collaboration platforms. Partner with Information Security to ensure new workplace technologies meet cybersecurity, privacy and compliance requirements. Develop architectural blueprints, technolo