Domain lead Cloud & Applications - M&A

Title: Domain Lead - Cloud & Applications - M&A

Duration: 12 months, potential extension

Start: ASAP

Location: Hybrid - Remote + approximately 25-50% travel depending on assigned integration

Current Integration Locations: Ohio, Texas, Connecticut

Candidate Location: Must reside in Eastern or Central Time, ideally near a major airport

Overview

Client is seeking senior Cloud & Applications Domain Leads to own cloud and application integration activities across Quanta's acquisition program.

The finalized technical JD is still being developed. The target candidate is a senior cloud/application engineer or architect with strong experience assessing inherited application environments and executing application and cloud migrations within M&A or large-scale transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery of acquired-company cloud and application environments.
• Inventory applications, hosting models, infrastructure dependencies, integrations, databases, authentication dependencies, vendors, and business owners.
• Perform application rationalization and dependency mapping.
• Determine migration, consolidation, remediation, retirement, or coexistence strategies.
• Develop target-state cloud/application architecture.
• Lead application and workload migrations into enterprise-standard environments.
• Coordinate Azure/cloud migration and application modernization activities where applicable.
• Identify dependencies across identity, networking, M365, infrastructure, security, databases and business processes.
• Develop migration sequencing, testing, validation, cutover, rollback, and stabilization plans.
• Coordinate application owners, business stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams.
• Remain hands-on enough to troubleshoot migration and integration issues.
• Lead small teams/resources supporting the application workstream.
• Create reusable migration runbooks, dependency maps and integration patterns.

Target Experience

• Strong hands-on cloud/application architecture or engineering background.
• Proven application migration/integration experience.
• M&A integration experience strongly preferred.
• Azure strongly preferred; AWS/GCP experience beneficial.
• Application rationalization and dependency mapping.
• Experience assessing inherited or poorly documented application estates.
• SaaS, COTS and custom enterprise application environments.
• Application integrations, APIs and authentication dependencies.
• Cloud migration and workload migration experience.
• Understanding of infrastructure, networking and identity dependencies.
• Experience leading applications through discovery, design, migration, cutover and stabilization.
• Consulting/client-facing delivery experience strongly preferred.