Director, Technology Integration Delivery

Focus Financial Partners•St. Louis, MO

4d•$140,000 - $175,000

About The Position

The Director of Technology Integration Delivery leads end-to-end technology integration for assigned mergers and acquisitions, from pre-close due diligence through planning, Day 1 readiness, execution, stabilization, and completion of hypercare. The role is accountable for predictable delivery, business continuity, user readiness, financial discipline, and a consistent integration experience across acquisition portfolios. The Director oversees dedicated cross-functional delivery pods staffed primarily through managed-services resources, directly governs the core integration delivery team, and coordinates embedded resources from enterprise technology functions. The role sets priorities, resolves dependencies, holds partners accountable to service levels, and ensures integrations follow approved architecture, security, IT service management, and delivery standards. Serving as the primary technology integration delivery partner for business leaders, acquired-firm stakeholders, technology owners, Corporate Strategy, Finance, Procurement, Risk, and external service providers, the Director combines M&A delivery leadership with financial and vendor management, executive communication, and leadership of geographically distributed teams through complex change. The position is exempt. Annualized base salary is expected to be $140,000–$175,000; actual pay may vary based on experience, expertise, work location, and skills. An annual cash bonus and benefits may also be available. The job title may change based on the selected candidate’s experience and education.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
At least 10 years of progressive technology delivery, program leadership, infrastructure, operations, or transformation experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience leading technology work across the M&A lifecycle, including due diligence, Day 1 planning, integration execution, stabilization, and hypercare.
Proven success leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams in a matrixed environment, including managed-services and contractor resources.
Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and operations, including identity and access management, Microsoft 365, collaboration and voice, networking, cloud/compute, endpoints, service desk, ITSM, ServiceNow, CMDB, and asset management.
Experience establishing and managing program budgets, forecasts, vendor commitments, resource plans, commercial controls, and financial performance.
Executive-level communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to translate technical risks and delivery choices into business impact and recommendations.
Strong judgment, organizational discipline, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in high-volume, time-sensitive environments.
Ability to travel as required to support diligence, leadership alignment, Day 1 events, cutovers, and stabilization activities.

Responsibilities

Own the full technology integration lifecycle for assigned acquisitions, including pre-close due diligence, risk identification, integration planning, Day 1 readiness, cutover, stabilization, and completion of hypercare.
Translate deal objectives, integration archetypes, diligence findings, and business requirements into an executable integration strategy, roadmap, schedule, resource plan, and budget.
Set lifecycle phase entry and exit criteria and ensure decisions, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and milestones are documented and actively managed.
Lead readiness reviews and make go/no-go recommendations for Day 1, migration events, production cutovers, and transition from hypercare to steady-state operations.
Minimize business disruption and support acquired employees’ productivity throughout the transition.
Lead and oversee assigned M&A pods, including Project Leads and resources supporting collaboration, network, compute, desktop engineering, and related workstreams.
Set priorities, capacity plans, delivery standards, governance routines, escalation paths, and accountability expectations across onshore, nearshore, and offshore resources.
Hold Project Leads and managed-services partners accountable for tactical oversight, schedule alignment, milestone delivery, accurate status reporting, and timely escalation.
Balance concurrent acquisitions against available capacity, resolve resource contention, and recommend staffing or sequencing changes when commitments are at risk.
Coordinate execution across technology functions and business and corporate partners, including Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Applications, Data, End User Services, Service Management, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, Human Resources, and Corporate Strategy.
Provide concise, decision-oriented executive and governance reporting on scope, schedule, budget, risks, readiness, service performance, and required decisions.
Build relationships with acquired-firm leaders and users; align expectations, communications, training, onboarding, and support plans to integration milestones.
Escalate material risks and decisions early, communicating business impact, options, recommendations, owners, and target resolution dates.
Help establish and maintain acquisition-level budgets, forecasts, actuals, variance analysis, cost-to-complete, and financial reporting for technology work.
Validate resource demand, managed-services consumption, travel, licensing, equipment, and other integration costs against approved scope and business priorities.
Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Vendor Management on commercial controls, invoice and deliverable review, scope changes, and cost or capacity risks.
Manage day-to-day service-provider performance, including contractual commitments, staffing quality, operating cadence, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
Ensure integration plans comply with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, change-management, asset-management, and service-management requirements.
Maintain an integrated view of risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions and drive timely mitigation across internal teams and external partners.
Ensure acquired users, devices, identities, mailboxes, collaboration capabilities, applications, assets, configuration items, and support processes are transitioned accurately and securely.
Confirm operational acceptance criteria, knowledge transfer, documentation, support ownership, and service readiness before closing hypercare.
Enforce approved integration playbooks, delivery tools, status standards, and governance processes, including complete and accurate work tracking in Asana.
Define actionable management reporting and use KPI trends to identify delivery, quality, capacity, financial, and supplier-performance concerns.
Capture lessons learned and convert findings into reusable playbooks, controls, templates, and process improvements.
Promote accountability, partnership, transparency, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.