IT Carve-Out Architect — Remote Infrastructure Lead Contract

The HT Group; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Part time

Job summary

The HT Group seeks an IT Carve-Out Lead / Infrastructure Separation Architect to drive the technology split of multiple entities from a shared environment. You will map dependencies, plan the future-state architecture, and coordinate migrations for identity, security, endpoints, DNS, and development tools into independent platforms.

Ideal candidates have led carve-outs, divestitures, or complex tenant separations, with hands-on ability to guide vendors and technical teams while minimizing

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure migrations, technology carve-outs, divestitures, or complex tenant separations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise identity, network security, DNS, endpoint management, and cloud-based infrastructure.
• Experience developing future-state architecture, migration roadmaps, cutover plans, risk mitigation strategies, and rollback procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate technical teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
• Strong program leadership, documentation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to work hands-on with technical teams and challenge migration approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and assessment of shared technology environments, systems, dependencies, vendor relationships, and operational risks.
• Develop the overall IT separation strategy, future-state architecture, migration roadmap, and cutover schedule.
• Define workstreams, dependencies, milestones, resource requirements, risks, and rollback plans.
• Coordinate separation activities across infrastructure, security, identity, endpoints, software development tools, and IT operations.
• Establish clear exit criteria for any temporary shared services or transition arrangements.
• Lead DNS migration and domain separation activities, including migrations to Cloudflare.
• Coordinate separation of an existing Zscaler environment and the implementation of a new standalone instance.
• Redesign the Microsoft Active Directory environment and support its transition from a hybrid model toward a cloud-based identity architecture.
• Establish independent identity, access, security, network, and administrative controls for the separated organizations.
• Ensure testing, documentation, security validation, and business continuity throughout migrations.
• Lead the migration of Apple Mac laptops intoJumpCloud environment.
• Define endpoint enrollment, configuration, access, security, and user-transition requirements.
• Coordinate device deployment planning and evaluate new device procurement or lifecycle-management providers.
• Partner with internal support teams and external vendors to minimize end-user disruption.
• Lead the separation and relocation of GitHub organizations and repositories.
• Coordinate the migration of repository permissions, teams, branches, secrets, GitHub Actions, integrations, and other development dependencies.
• Preserve security, access, source-code integrity, and development continuity.
• Develop migration validation and rollback procedures for critical repositories and integrations.
• Manage multiple concurrent technical workstreams and maintain an integrated separation plan.
• Partner with executive leadership, IT, Security, Engineering, Legal, Finance, HR, and external vendors.

Skills

Carve-out leadership

Infrastructure migrations

Cloud-based identity

DNS/domain separation

Vendor management

Executive communication

Tools

GitHub

JumpCloud

Cloudflare

Zscaler

Active Directory

Job description

The HT Group seeks an IT Carve-Out Lead / Infrastructure Separation Architect to drive the technology split of multiple entities from a shared environment. You will map dependencies, plan the future-state architecture, and coordinate migrations for identity, security, endpoints, DNS, and development tools into independent platforms.

Ideal candidates have led carve-outs, divestitures, or complex tenant separations, with hands-on ability to guide vendors and technical teams while minimizing