Principal Engineer, Enterprise Architect - M&A Integration

- 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. Qualifications