Position Summary 

The IT Architect will serve as the primary Infrastructure lead for M&A activities, responsible for assessing incoming organizations’ technology environments and developing integration and modernization plans. This role will act as the single point of contact for infrastructure-related updates, risks, dependencies, and escalations. 

Scope of Responsibility 

This role will assess and coordinate integration across: 

• Compute, virtualization, and hosting platforms 

• Storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery 

• Network, WAN/LAN, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and connectivity 

• Network security, firewalls, VPN, segmentation, and secure access 

• Cloud infrastructure and hybrid connectivity 

• Identity platforms, including AD, Entra ID / Azure AD, SSO, MFA, federation, and privileged access 

• Collaboration platforms, including Microsoft 365, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Workspace, and email services 

• Shared services, including ITSM, monitoring, CMDB, certificate management, logging, NTP, SMTP, and automation tools 

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead infrastructure assessment for mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. 

• Evaluate acquired-company infrastructure, identity, collaboration, cloud, network, and shared services environments. 

• Identify risks, gaps, technical debt, security concerns, integration blockers, and modernization opportunities. 

• Partner with leaders across Core Infrastructure, ICP, Cloud, Identity, Collaboration, Network, Security, and Shared Services. 

• Develop Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, and long-term integration plans. 

• Define migration sequencing, dependencies, ownership, risks, and target-state recommendations. 

• Serve as the primary contact for infrastructure updates, decisions, and escalations. 

• Prepare executive-level summaries, roadmaps, risk registers, and integration status updates. 

• Ensure integration plans align with enterprise architecture, security, operational, and governance standards. 

Required Qualifications 

• 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture, or infrastructure architecture. 

• Strong experience across compute, storage, backup, network, cloud, identity, collaboration, and shared services. 

• Experience supporting M&A, divestitures, large-scale integrations, or major transformation programs. 

• Knowledge of AD, Entra ID / Azure AD, SSO, MFA, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and related platforms. 

• Ability to assess complex environments and translate findings into integration plans, risks, and executive updates. 

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, documentation, and escalation management skills. 

• Bachelor’s in computer science, IT or related fields.  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. 

• Experience with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace migrations. 

• Familiarity with ITSM platforms, CMDB, monitoring, certificate management, and automation tools. 

• Knowledge of Zero Trust, conditional access, identity governance, and network segmentation. 

• Certifications such as ITIL, Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, or identity-related certifications are a plus.