M&A Network & Operations Integration Lead

Job TiItle

M&A Network & Operations Integration Lead

Location

Houston, TX (Highly Preferred) or nearby locations.

Job type

Contract

Open for C2C

Travel Requirements

The candidate must be willing to travel to the client site twice a month, as well as on an as-needed basis.

The M&A Network & Operations Integration Lead will spearhead the technical and operational integration of acquired companies into the primary organization's network ecosystem.

This critical leadership role spans day-to-day coordination and high-level architectural strategy, ensuring that infrastructure, back-end systems, and field operations merge seamlessly without degrading subscriber or network performance.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise across Network Operations Centers (NOC), OSS/BSS, configuration provisioning, fault monitoring, field systems, and complex network engineering integrations .

Key Responsibilities

1. Core Network Engineering Integration & Strategy

• Architectural Due Diligence: Assess acquired network infrastructure (access, backhaul, core, and interconnection), identify hardware end-of-life status, and draft risk registries and cost models prior to consolidation.
• Target-State Planning: Design and document current-state to target-state architecture across routing, switching, and CPE platforms.
• Infrastructure Rationalization: Drive the decision framework to keep, migrate, integrate, or decommission acquired network platforms and components.

2. OSS/BSS & Provisioning Alignment

• Workflow Migration: Map and migrate network inventory data, customer service orders, and subscriber data from legacy systems to central platforms.
• Automated Provisioning: Standardize and integrate automated provisioning workflows, including ONT activation, configuration, and service fulfilment.
• Business Systems Interoperability: Partner with IT and billing units to link Operational Support Systems (OSS) with Business Support Systems (BSS) for frictionless cash-to-service execution.

3. NOC Consolidation & Monitoring/Alarms

• Day 1 Telemetry: Establish intermediate monitoring over VPN, MPLS, or direct interconnect to ensure Day 1 visibility of acquired networks.
• Unified Monitoring: Fully absorb acquired components into the enterprise NOC platform within target timelines (e.g., 120 days post-close).
• Fault Management: Configure and standardize alarm pipelines, telemetry metrics, syslog tracking, and SNMP traps to route uniformly into central triage queues.

4. Field Operations Systems & Operational Runbooks

• Field Tool Integration: Merge workforce management software, truck roll triggers, and customer-premises equipment (CPE) swap processes.
• Process Harmonization: Consolidate isolated operational runbooks, escalation matrix rules, change management templates, and SLA tracking processes into unified enterprise frameworks.
• Logistics Alignment: Synchronize multi-warehouse spare-parts strategies, equipment staging workflows, and local technician staffing plans.

5. Governance & Cutover Execution

• Migration Playbooks: Author comprehensive Methods of Procedure (MOPs) and migration schedules with airtight rollback safety nets.
• Vendor Consolidation: Inventory overlapping software licensing, support contracts, and transport leases to capture post-merger synergy savings.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Experience: 15+ years in Network Engineering, Telecom Operations, or Infrastructure Systems, with at least 3 years explicitly dedicated to M&A infrastructure integration or large-scale data center/carrier migrations .
• Systems Expertise: High-level mastery of OSS/BSS frameworks , network inventory databases, configuration provisioning platforms, and fault-monitoring software (e.g., SolarWinds, Grafana, Splunk, or manufacturer-specific EMS platforms).
• Network Domain Knowledge: Solid comprehension of IP routing protocols, transport backhaul, security infrastructure, subscriber access methods (such as GPON/XGS-PON, Fixed Wireless, or Metro Ethernet), and vendor platforms (e.g., Cisco, Nokia, Calix).
• Operations Savvy: Deep understanding of incident response life cycles, SLA governance, and field service dispatch software integrations.
• Leadership & Communication: Outstanding cross-functional orchestration capabilities to align engineering, IT, field operations, and corporate development stakeholders