Principal Enterprise Architect - Mergers & Acquisitions (Remote)

Principal Enterprise Architect – Mergers & Acquisitions

IQVIA's AI & Technology Solutions (ATS) organization is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect – Mergers & Acquisitions to define, govern, and evolve enterprise-wide architecture strategy, standards, and roadmaps across a large, global technology landscape.

This role sits within the Architecture & Standards (A&S) group and partners closely with Corporate Development, the M&A IT Office, Enterprise Technology Solutions, Information Security, Data Privacy, Legal/IP, Finance, and Business Units to support IQVIA's strong M&A strategy—covering active integrations, backlog acquisitions, and future deal pipeline.

You will serve as the architectural authority driving the evolution toward AI-agent-driven M&A IT integration, transforming complex discovery, risk assessment, and application rationalization processes into a high-velocity, automated and scalable capability. This role requires deep, hands-on experience across pre-close and post-close M&A integrations.

Key Responsibilities

The Principal Enterprise Architect – M&A is a senior, highly specialized role responsible for leading all architectural dimensions of IQVIA's mergers and acquisitions initiatives.

You will:

• Serve as a senior architectural authority during:
• Deal evaluation and pre-LOI assessments
• Technology due diligence
• Integration planning and execution
• Post-close stabilization and optimization
• Define and govern enterprise architecture strategies that:
• Enable rapid, scalable M&A integrations
• Reduce technology risk and complexity
• Maximize value realization and synergy targets
• Lead technology landscape assessments, including:
• Current-state evaluation of infrastructure, applications, and data
• Identification of gaps, risks, and compliance issues
• Architectural boundary definition for carve-outs and divestitures
• Design integration and migration strategies, roadmaps, and target-state architectures
• Partner with senior leaders to:
• Influence technology investment and integration decisions
• Communicate architectural risks and opportunities to executive and C-suite stakeholders
• Drive application portfolio rationalization, standardization, and system retirement
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security, privacy, and compliance standards (e.g., NIST, ISO)
• Act as a trusted advisor to:
• Corporate Development
• CIO and CISO organizations
• Business and technology executives

Success Measures (First 12 Months)

• Measurably reduce the time required to produce M&A technology assessments through improved playbooks and reusable tooling
• Drive application rationalization initiatives that deliver post-merger synergy targets
• Establish scalable, repeatable architecture patterns for M&A integrations
• Mentor and develop at least two senior architects in M&A-specific architecture practices

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles

• 4+ years leading technology due diligence and/or integration architecture in M&A environments

• Proven experience across the full M&A lifecycle, including:

  • Pre-LOI screening
  • Due diligence
  • Day 1 readiness
  • Post-merger integration and stabilization

• Deep expertise in:

  • Enterprise architecture frameworks
  • Application portfolio management
  • Integration and migration strategies

• Strong working knowledge of:

  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Hybrid and distributed integration patterns
  • Data architecture and governance

• Experience with carve-outs and divestitures, including Transition Service Agreements (TSAs)

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity and risk assessment frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2) as applied to M&A

• Exceptional executive communication and influence skills, with the ability to present architectural findings and risks to senior and board-level audiences

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with senior business, technology, and product leaders to drive adoption of standards-based architectures at scale