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Senior Integration Architect (contract)
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The opportunity
Our client, a technology-led consultancy advising PE investors and corporates on deals and value creation, is supporting a merger between two major UK facilities-services businesses. They need an experienced infrastructure leader to shape how the combined group's cloud, network and collaboration estate comes together.
This is a senior advisory seat, not a delivery architect role. You will judge what a right-sized infrastructure footprint looks like, what to keep in-house and what to outsource, and turn that into a costed, vendor-backed plan.
The role
You will lead two phases: confirmatory due diligence on both infrastructure environments, then the integration planning effort. Key responsibilities:
- Confirmatory due diligence: assess both organizations' infrastructure across cloud, data center, network and collaboration platforms, plus contracts and support models. Flag risks, gaps and cost exposures.
- Right-sized footprint: recommend the target infrastructure footprint for the combined group, including what to insource, what to outsource and the sourcing model to get there.
- Integration plan: put the plan on the page, covering workstreams, sequencing, dependencies and milestones to Day 1 and beyond.
- Vendor strategy: determine the right vendors and partners, and advise on consolidating, renegotiating or exiting existing contracts.
- Cost to achieve: model one-off integration costs, run-rate savings and the investment case behind the plan.
- Stakeholder advisory: work alongside the client's deal and integration leaders and the combined group's executives, bringing an operator's view to each decision.
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Essential
- Former head of infrastructure, or equivalent, at a business with multi-billion-pound revenue.
- Deep breadth across cloud, network, data center and collaboration platforms.
- Proven sourcing judgement: insource and outsource decisions, vendor selection and managed-service contracts.
- Experience of confirmatory due diligence, integration planning or a major infrastructure consolidation after M&A.
- Able to build cost-to-achieve and savings models that stand up to deal and finance scrutiny.
- Consultative style, credible with PE investors, deal teams and C-suite executives.
Desirable
- Facilities management industry experience (strongly preferred by the client).
- Outsourcing or business-services background, with large, multi-site and field-based workforces.
- Previous work alongside, or within, a consultancy on transactions.
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