Director, Technology Integration Delivery

Job Description Summary:

The Director of Technology Integration Delivery provides end-to-end leadership for technology integration across mergers and acquisitions from pre-close due diligence through planning Day 1 readiness execution stabilization and completion of hypercare. The Director is accountable for predictable delivery business continuity user readiness financial discipline and a consistent integration experience across assigned acquisition portfolios.
The role oversees dedicated cross-functional delivery pods staffed primarily through managed-services resources. This role directly governs the core integration delivery team while coordinating embedded resources from enterprise technology functions. The Director establishes priorities resolves dependencies holds partners accountable to service levels and ensures each acquisition follows approved architecture security IT service management and delivery standards.
This leader serves as the primary technology integration delivery partner for business leaders acquired-firm stakeholders functional technology owners Corporate Strategy Finance Procurement Risk and external service providers. The ideal candidate combines M&A delivery experience strong financial and vendor management executive communication and the ability to lead geographically distributed teams through complex change.

Job Description:

Primary Responsibilities

M&A Integration Lifecycle Leadership

• Own the full technology integration lifecycle for assigned acquisitions including pre-close due diligence risk identification integration planning Day 1 readiness cutover stabilization and completion of hypercare.
• Translate deal objectives integration archetypes diligence findings and business requirements into an executable technology integration strategy roadmap schedule resource plan and budget.
• Establish clear entry and exit criteria for each lifecycle phase and ensure decisions risks assumptions dependencies and milestones are documented and actively managed.
• Lead readiness reviews and go/no-go recommendations for Day 1 migration events production cutovers and transition from hypercare to steady-state operations.
• Ensure integration activities minimize business disruption and enable acquired employees to remain productive throughout transition.

Pod Leadership & Delivery Governance

• Provide leadership and delivery oversight for assigned M&A pods including Project Leads and core pod resources supporting collaboration network compute desktop engineering and related integration workstreams.
• Set priorities capacity plans delivery standards governance routines escalation paths and accountability expectations across onshore nearshore and offshore resources.
• Hold Project Leads and managed-services partners accountable for tactical oversight schedule alignment milestone delivery accurate status reporting and timely escalation.
• Balance concurrent acquisitions across available capacity resolve resource contention and recommend staffing or sequencing changes when delivery commitments are at risk.

Cross-Functional Execution & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate execution across Infrastructure Cybersecurity Enterprise Applications Data End User Services Service Management Legal Compliance Finance Procurement Human Resources Corporate Strategy and business leadership.
• Provide concise decision-oriented reporting to executives and governance forums on scope schedule budget risks readiness service performance and required decisions.
• Build trusted relationships with acquired-firm leaders and users setting clear expectations and ensuring communications training onboarding and support plans are aligned to integration milestones.
• Escalate material risks and decisions early with clear business impact options recommendations owners and target resolution dates.

Financial Commercial & Vendor Accountability

• Help establish and maintain financial accountability for M&A technology work including acquisition-level budgets forecasts actuals variance analysis cost-to-complete and financial reporting.
• Validate resource demand managed-services consumption travel licensing equipment and other integration costs against approved scope and business priorities.
• Partner with Finance Procurement and Vendor Management to define commercial controls review invoices and deliverables manage changes in scope and identify cost or capacity risks.
• Own day-to-day service-provider performance including adherence to contractual commitments staffing quality operating cadence corrective actions and continuous improvement.

Risk Quality & Operational Readiness

• Ensure integration plans comply with enterprise architecture cybersecurity privacy regulatory change-management asset-management and service-management requirements.
• Maintain an integrated view of risks issues dependencies and decisions and drive timely mitigation across internal teams and external partners.
• Ensure acquired users devices identities mailboxes collaboration capabilities applications assets configuration items and support processes are transitioned accurately and securely.
• Confirm operational acceptance criteria knowledge transfer documentation support ownership and service readiness before closing hypercare.

Standards Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Enforce use of approved integration playbooks delivery tools status standards and governance processes including complete and accurate work tracking in Asana.
• Define actionable management reporting and use KPI trends to identify delivery quality capacity financial and supplier-performance concerns.
• Capture lessons learned after each integration and convert findings into reusable playbooks controls templates and process improvements.
• Promote a culture of accountability partnership transparency disciplined execution and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in information technology business engineering or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 10 years of progressive technology delivery program leadership infrastructure operations or transformation experience including significant leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading technology work across the M&A lifecycle including due diligence Day 1 planning integration execution stabilization and hypercare.
• Proven success leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams in a matrixed environment including managed-services and contractor resources.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and operations including identity and access management Microsoft 365 collaboration and voice networking cloud/compute endpoints service desk ITSM ServiceNow CMDB and asset management.
• Experience establishing and managing program budgets forecasts vendor commitments resource plans commercial controls and financial performance.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to translate technical risks and delivery choices into clear business impact and recommendations.
• Strong judgment organizational discipline negotiation problem-solving and decision-making skills in high-volume time-sensitive environments.
• Ability to travel as required to support diligence leadership alignment Day 1 events cutovers and stabilization activities.

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This position is an exempt position. The annualized base pay range for this role is expected to be between $140000-$175000 base salary compensation range. Actual base pay may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience subject matter expertise geographic location where work will be performed and the applicants skill set. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package. Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to medical dental vision life insurance and 401(k). Please note that the job title is subject to change based on the selected candidates experience and education.

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