IT Integration Program Manager; Remote

• Take ownership of the overall IT integration program, leading the assessment of the acquired company’s technology environment and identifying integration priorities, gaps, and opportunities.
• Partner with technology leaders and business stakeholders to evaluate existing systems, infrastructure, applications, vendors, and technology contracts, determining the appropriate path forward for each.
• Translate discovery findings into a comprehensive integration strategy, establishing priorities, timelines, resource requirements, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead coordination across multiple IT functions, including infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, identity management, Microsoft 365, enterprise applications, architecture, licensing, and procurement.
• Drive technology rationalization decisions by evaluating which platforms and services should be maintained, consolidated, migrated, replaced, or decommissioned.
• Identify opportunities to streamline technology operations, eliminate redundancies, optimize vendor relationships, and achieve cost efficiencies through integration.
• Establish program governance and maintain visibility into progress through integrated project plans, risk and issue tracking, decision logs, dependency management, and executive reporting.
• Bring together technical teams, business leaders, and external stakeholders to address integration challenges, resolve dependencies, and maintain alignment on program objectives.
• Oversee the completion of integration activities, ensuring systems and processes are transitioned appropriately, ownership is assigned, and outstanding risks and deliverables are addressed.
• Create a scalable M&A IT integration framework, including standardized processes, templates, governance structures, assessment tools, and lessons learned for future acquisitions.

Project/Program Management, Technical Recruiting, Project/Program Management, Establish Priorities, Licensing, Identity Data Management, Internet Security, Microsoft Product Family, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Computing, * At least 7 years of experience managing IT programs, projects, or portfolios in complex enterprise environments.

• Mandatory: Proven experience leading IT integration initiatives resulting from mergers or acquisitions. Candidates must have owned the integration process, including technology assessment, strategy development, roadmap creation, execution oversight, and transition to operations.
• Strong understanding of the M&A technology integration lifecycle and the ability to independently establish an approach, drive decisions, and deliver results with minimal supervision.
• Experience integrating diverse enterprise technology environments, including infrastructure, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, identity and access management, Microsoft 365, and business applications.
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams, multiple concurrent workstreams, complex dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Ability to evaluate technology environments, develop recommendations, and facilitate decisions around platform consolidation, migration, replacement, and retirement.
• Strong financial and operational awareness, with the ability to identify integration efficiencies, cost-saving opportunities, and technology synergies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting program status, risks, recommendations, and decisions to executive leadership.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, with hands-on experience developing program roadmaps, governance processes, and executive-level reporting.