M&A Infrastructure Architect

FPT Americas; Canada; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Canada is seeking a Mid-Senior level Infrastructure Architect to develop integration plans and support M&A activities. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in the technology integration field, with strong expertise in architecture design and cloud computing. Excellent communication skills are required to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and facilitate design discussions. This contract role offers an opportunity to impact the firm's growth through strategic technology integration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in technology integration and divestiture.
• 3+ years' experience in M&A activities including technology due diligence.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing concepts related to IaaS and PaaS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integration blueprint and roadmap.
• Facilitate design consultations with stakeholders.
• Produce design documents for infrastructure delivery teams.

Skills

Integration and divestiture of technologies

Experience with M&A activities

Design of multi-tiered technology architecture

Subject Matter Expert (SME) in infrastructure stack

Cloud computing concepts

Architecture modeling

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal and leadership skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

PowerPoint

Lucid

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Key Responsibilities

• Scenario Planning & Transformation Mapping: Develop plans and estimates for transitioning from current to future states in coordination with the M&A center of excellence.
• Technical Design Deliverables: Produce design documents that enable infrastructure delivery teams to deploy robust, flexible, scalable, supportable, and secure solutions aligned with enterprise strategic initiatives.
• Collaboration: Work closely with the IOPS M&A Integration Lead to extend infrastructure architecture capacity for the acquisition and divestiture pipeline.
• Standards & Design Patterns: Analyze and promote standards and design patterns that align with established enterprise architectural goals.
• Emerging Technologies: Provide guidance on integrating emerging technologies and industry trends for technology integration and disentanglement of systems.
• Communication: Facilitate group virtual/physical whiteboard sessions to gain alignment on integration direction.

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Define and maintain the current, transition, and future state infrastructure architecture integration blueprint and roadmap for active acquisitions and divestitures.
• Learn and promote the current IT infrastructure portfolio, standards, and procedures in designs and recommendations. Document any recommended variances and guide them through the approval process.
• Partner with key stakeholders in the acquired company and CAI Infrastructure and Operations Platforms to define a roadmap and advance towards a future vision.
• Stay informed about technology trends, differentiate between emerging, hype, and mainstream evolution, and assess their impact on transformations.
• Evaluate the impact of incoming capacity on Operations and Engineering teams.
• Produce readouts to inform work planning for downstream teams.
• Produce appropriate design artifacts representing desired changes in technical architecture.
• Address system quality attributes relating to infrastructure architecture, such as efficiency or availability, and recommend solutions.
• Contribute to high-level estimates in support of business case development.
• Serve as a technical point of interface for infrastructure platform engineers, reviewing designs where appropriate and driving improved service and relationships between integrating groups.
• Establish yourself as a trusted technical advisor with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Other responsibilities as required to support the company's growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in the integration and divestiture of technologies using structured design and architecture processes in a corporate environment.
• 3+ years’ experience with M&A activities including technology integration and due diligence.
• Experience in the design of multi-tiered technology architecture.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more layers of the infrastructure stack and comprehensive understanding of all layers including transport protocols, network, compute, virtualization,
• DAS/NAS/SAN storage, monitoring, and security.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing concepts particularly related to IaaS and PaaS approaches.
• Architecture Modeling as well as the ability to effectively deliver presentations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken. Evidenced by the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of architecture changes.
• Effective use of communication tools/methods such as PowerPoint and Lucid.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with group facilitation virtual/physical whiteboard sessions to gain alignment on integration direction

Required Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

IT Services and IT Consulting

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