M&A Application Portfolio Architect

Role overview Assess application portfolios connected to acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships across a healthcare enterprise. The architect evaluates business and technical fit, identifies overlap and gaps, and recommends how applications should be integrated, modernized, consolidated, or retired. The work spans due diligence and post-transaction planning, with recommendations shaped by architecture, security, data, and regulatory needs.

Responsibilities - Lead application portfolio reviews and technology due diligence for transactions and strategic initiatives. - Assess applications for business value, technical fit, integration effort, security, scalability, cloud readiness, lifecycle maturity, and technical debt. - Recommend which systems to retain, retire, replace, consolidate, modernize, or integrate. - Develop target-state architectures and roadmaps that align technology choices with business objectives. - Work with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, data, and integration teams on transition plans. - Identify risks involving compliance, cybersecurity, licensing, vendors, and data migration; present findings and business cases to senior stakeholders.

Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. - At least five years of experience in enterprise, application, or portfolio architecture; technology strategy; or a related discipline. - Experience assessing large application portfolios and creating target architectures and multiyear technology roadmaps. - Ability to evaluate cloud, SaaS, custom-built, and third-party systems, including their security, scalability, lifecycle, and integration needs. - Experience communicating architecture recommendations and business cases to senior stakeholders.

Nice to have - Graduate degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. - Experience with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, technology due diligence, or large-scale transformation. - Healthcare platform experience, such as payer or provider systems, claims, care management, digital health, or analytics.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role with occasional travel for training or meetings. A dedicated workspace is needed to protect sensitive health information; home internet must meet stated speed requirements. - Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week. Listed base pay is $106,900–$147,000 per year, with eligibility for a performance-based incentive plan. - Benefits include health coverage, retirement savings, paid time off and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, disability coverage, and life insurance.