Principal Engineer, Enterprise Architect – M&A Integration

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REQUIREMENTS: • Total experience: 11+ years, with strong experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Application Architecture. • Must-have experience in Enterprise Architecture supporting Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) integration programs . • M&A integration experience is mandatory — candidates must have worked on acquisition integration, post-merger integration, divestiture, or similar transformation programs. • Strong experience assessing current-state business applications, technology, integration, infrastructure, and data landscapes. • Strong experience defining target-state architecture, integration roadmaps, application rationalization, consolidation, migration, coexistence, and retirement strategies. • Strong understanding of enterprise application landscapes including ERP, CRM, HR, PLM, SaaS, cloud, and on-premises platforms. • Strong understanding of high-level integration architecture, including APIs, middleware, event-driven architecture, and file-based integrations. • Experience with business capability mapping, application dependency mapping, technology landscapes, architecture risks, and integration priorities. • Experience supporting Day 1, TSA Exit, and Long-Term M&A Integration activities. • Strong experience creating architecture artefacts including application portfolios, integration diagrams, capability maps, technology inventories, target-state architectures, roadmaps, and Architecture Decision Records. • Experience with Enterprise Architecture tools such as Ardoq, LeanIX, Bizzdesign, or similar is preferred. • Experience defining architectures across SaaS, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. • Exposure to Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF is preferred. • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and architecture workshop facilitation skills. • Ability to produce clear, concise, and executive-ready architecture assessments, recommendations, and roadmaps. • Experience working with global stakeholders across UK/EU, APAC, and North America. • Willingness to travel to the UK/EU for short-duration architecture workshops. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and collaboration skills. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Support enterprise architecture activities across M&A integration programs . • Assess current-state business applications, integrations, infrastructure, data, and technology landscapes within acquired organizations. • Document application portfolios, technology inventories, application dependencies, integration points, and architectural risks. • Define target-state architectures and develop practical M&A integration roadmaps. • Perform application rationalization analysis to identify consolidation, migration, coexistence, replacement, and retirement opportunities. • Map business capabilities to supporting applications and identify gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and integration priorities. • Support Day 1, TSA Exit, and Long-Term Integration planning activities. • Assess high-level integration requirements between enterprise platforms such as ERP, CRM, HR, PLM, and other business applications. • Facilitate architecture workshops with business, IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, and application stakeholders. • Develop executive-level architecture assessments, recommendation papers, roadmap materials, and decision documents. • Create, maintain, and govern architecture artefacts including application landscapes, capability maps, integration diagrams, technology inventories, target-state architectures, and Architecture Decision Records. • Maintain and update enterprise architecture information within tools such as Ardoq, LeanIX, Bizzdesign, or equivalent repositories. • Identify integration risks, technical debt, architectural gaps, dependencies, and operational impacts. • Evaluate technology and application options based on business value, risk, dependencies, and M&A integration requirements. • Review solution designs and implementation plans for alignment with enterprise architecture principles and target-state architecture. • Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, data, application, and business teams to develop integrated architecture solutions. • Work with project teams and external partners to ensure successful execution of M&A integration initiatives. • Provide objective architectural guidance to stakeholders and balance strategic thinking with practical delivery requirements. • Support stakeholders across UK/EU, APAC, and North America, including flexibility for occasional early or late meetings. • Travel to the UK/EU when required for architecture workshops and stakeholder engagements. Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field