Sr Lead M&A Architect

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure architecture strategy for the M&A portfolio, authoring and governing infrastructure integration blueprints and roadmaps across current, transition, and future states for multiple concurrent acquisitions and divestitures.
• Develop multi-domain scenario plans with trade-off analysis across cost, risk, and delivery dimensions, mapping current to future state in coordination with the M&A Center of Excellence and corporate development.
• Produce architecture decisions and design artifacts that enable delivery teams to implement solutions that are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise strategy.
• Create design artifacts and diagrams representing desired changes in infrastructure architecture.
• Establish, evolve, and govern Cox Automotive infrastructure integration standards, design patterns, and reference architectures; document and guide variances through approval.
• Lead alignment with acquired company stakeholders and CAI Infrastructure and Operations platform teams to align on roadmap and sequencing; influence infrastructure, platform, security, network, database, and automation teams without direct authority.
• Serve as a technical authority bridging platform engineering and delivery teams, reviewing designs and improving collaboration between groups.
• Facilitate virtual and in-person working sessions, including whiteboarding, to build alignment on integration direction.
• Synthesize complex technical findings into executive-ready narratives highlighting decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and progress aligned to deal milestones; brief senior leadership on integration posture and architectural direction.
• Evaluate operational and engineering capacity impacts of incoming scope and provide readouts for downstream planning, including staffing, tooling, and run-cost implications.
• Use AI-assisted techniques for infrastructure due diligence, including document analysis, data room assessment, infrastructure scope classification, technology overlap identification, risk assessment, and production of confidence-rated findings.
• Apply AI tools to generate, stress-test, and validate architectural options across cost, performance, security, and resilience dimensions for integra

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Company Cox Automotive - USA Job Family Group Engineering / Product Development Job Profile Sr Lead Architect Management Level Sr Manager - Non People Leader Flexible Work Option Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week Travel % Yes, 5% of the time Work Shift Day

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