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Role Overview We're looking for a Principal Engineer, Enterprise Architect to support M&A integration programs. The role involves assessing current-state business applications, technology, integration, infrastructure, and data landscapes, and defining target-state architecture, integration roadmaps, application rationalization, consolidation, migration, coexistence, and retirement strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Application Architecture, with a focus on M&A integration experience. What You Will Do The main responsibilities of this role include supporting enterprise architecture activities across M&A integration programs, assessing current-state business applications, integrations, infrastructure, data, and technology landscapes, and defining target-state architectures and developing practical M&A integration roadmaps. Why It Might Be a Fit To be successful in this role, you will need to have strong stakeholder management, communication, and architecture workshop facilitation skills, as well as the 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 is also preferred. Requirements Total experience: 11+ years, with strong experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Application Architecture. 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.

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