M&A Portfolio Architect

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The Application Portfolio Architect evaluates application portfolios to support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships across the healthcare enterprise. You will assess business and technical fit. It identifies functional overlap and capability gaps. You will define integration and rationalization strategies that align acquired technologies with existing application landscape, operating model, and regulatory obligations.

This position partners with business leaders, product teams, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data teams, and integration partners to support pre-acquisition due diligence and post-close integration planning. We are looking for experience in healthcare technology ecosystems, application rationalization, cloud and integration patterns, and regulatory considerations such as HIPAA, privacy, and data governance.

The Application Portfolio Architect evaluates application portfolios to support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic partnerships across the healthcare enterprise. Begins to influence department's strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and perform work without direction. Exercise considerable latitude in determining goals and approaches to assignments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead application portfolio assessments and technology due diligence for acquisitions and strategic projects.

• Evaluate applications and platforms for business value, technical fit, integration complexity, security, scalability, cloud readiness, and technical debt.

• Develop portfolio rationalization strategies, including recommendations to retain, retire, replace, consolidate, modernize, or integrate applications.

• Define target-state architecture and integration roadmaps to support business and technology objectives.

• Partner with product, engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to execute application integration and transition plans.

• Assess healthcare technology platforms, including claims, provider, member, care management, digital health, contact center, and analytics solutions.

• Identify risks related to cybersecurity, compliance, licensing, vendor dependencies, and data migration.

• Present architecture recommendations, business cases, and due diligence findings to stakeholders and executive leadership.

• Facilitate architecture reviews and provide guidance throughout post-merger integration efforts.

• Maintain architecture artifacts, application inventories, capability maps, and portfolio decision frameworks.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field

• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Application Architecture, Portfolio Architecture, Technology Strategy, or related disciplines.

• Experience evaluating large application portfolios and making recommendations to retain, retire, replace, consolidate, modernize, or integrate applications.

• Strong experience creating target-state architectures and multi-year technology roadmaps.

• Experience assessing cloud, SaaS, custom-built, and third-party enterprise applications.

• Proven ability to evaluate technical debt, application lifecycle maturity, scalability, security, and integration complexity.

• Experience presenting recommendations and business cases to executive leadership and senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or large-scale transformation programs.

• Healthcare industry experience, including payer, provider, claims, care management, digital health, or analytics platforms.

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