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Focus Financial Partners · 1 week ago

VP, Technology Integration

St Louis, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$150K/yr - $250K/yr

15+ years exp

Focus Financial Partners is a leading partnership of fiduciary wealth management and related financial services firms. The M&A and Technology Integration Technical Leader is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing all technology integration activities related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, ensuring secure and scalable outcomes for the business.

Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesWealth Management

Growth Opportunities

Hiring Manager

Sterling Freeman

Responsibilities

Act as the single-threaded technical leader for all M&A, divestiture, and move-related integration efforts across infrastructure and wealth platforms

Own Day 1 readiness, transition state design, and post-close integration execution

Translate business integration objectives into coordinated and executable technology plans

Coordinate and manage all technology workstreams, including network, identity, EUC, cloud, security, collaboration tools, CRM and portfolio management platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Orion), data platforms, and reporting systems

Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies

Drive cross-functional execution across Infrastructure, Application teams, Security, Data, and external vendors

Lead cutover planning and sequencing across infrastructure and platform domains

Ensure all integrations align with enterprise architecture principles, security standards, and operating models

Define repeatable, standardized integration and separation patterns for both infrastructure and wealth platforms

Partner with application architecture and product teams to avoid point solutions and minimize long-term technical debt

Design integration approaches that support scalability, future acquisitions, and efficient divestitures

Partner with Information Security to ensure environments meet regulatory, security, and data residency requirements

Identify and manage technical risks associated with acquired or divested environments during transition periods

Ensure proper controls and governance are in place throughout all integration phases

Coordinate activities with MSPs, systems integrators, and platform vendors involved in integrations and move events

Provide technical oversight to ensure vendor delivery meets architectural and operational standards

Serve as the primary technical integration point of contact for IT and business leadership

Provide clear, concise status updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to executives

Support decision-making with data-driven analysis and trade-off modeling

Qualification

M&A integrationsEnterprise infrastructureCross-functional leadershipWealth management technologyStandardized integration frameworksVendor managementStakeholder communicationRisk management