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The System Engineer - Infrastructure & Program Manager is a senior, dual‑accountability role combining hands‑on infrastructure engineering & architecture leadership with end‑to‑end ownership of complex infrastructure migration workstreams.

The role plays a critical function in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A;) leading infrastructure assessments for data‑center consolidation, cloud adoption, and platform integration. The individual ensures all infrastructure assets from acquired entities are prepared for transition into Optum enterprise‑standard platforms across on‑premises, co‑location, and native cloud environments, while protecting system stability, security, and business continuity. - Primary Responsibilities :

- Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture
- Provide architecture oversight throughout delivery to ensure design intent is preserved during implementation
- Ensure architectural compliance with enterprise standards, security controls, and governance frameworks
- Conduct infrastructure risk assessments and define mitigation and contingency strategies aligned to availability, resilience, and disaster‑recovery objectives
- Maintain strong awareness of enterprise platforms, technology roadmaps, and industry trends,



incorporating them pragmatically into solution designs
- Demonstrate deep understanding of data‑center and hybrid hosting environments, including virtualization and cloud integration patterns
- Migration, Integration M&A;
- Lead infrastructure discovery and due‑diligence activities for acquired entities, including servers, storage, virtualization, network dependencies, and hosting models
- Evaluate on‑premises vs cloud suitability, contributing to target‑state platform and hosting decisions
- Drive integration of acquired environments into enterprise‑standard compute, storage, network, identity, monitoring, and security platforms
- Identify infrastructure risks, gaps, and remediation requirements impacting M&A; timelines and integration outcomes
- Assess disaster‑recovery maturity of acquired systems and lead alignment to enterprise DR standards
- Project/Program Management
- Own delivery of comprehensive assessments of large‑scale, multi‑workstream infrastructure workstreams including M&A; integrations, data‑center migrations, and cloud adoption initiatives.
- Drive, lead, plan and execute extremely fluid and complex infrastructure projects managing multiple critical path deliverables with multiple teams simultaneously
- Develop and manage end‑to‑end execution of assessment plans, covering scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and communications
- Create and manage SOWs, delivery estimates, cost models,



and resourcing assumptions
- Drive execution across multiple concurrent initiatives, maintaining focus on critical‑path and high‑risk deliverables
- Coordinate and influence cross‑functional teams including architecture, engineering, operations, security, finance, vendors, and business stakeholders
- Provide structured, executive‑ready status reporting, dashboards, and communications
- Ensure delivery meets agreed schedule, scope, quality, and risk‑management expectations
- Keeping project information consolidated, organized and up to date
- Proactive issue identification and resolution. Serve as an escalation point for complex issues, problems and solutions
- Support and assist teams to remove roadblocks, identify alternative options and resolve conflict
- Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership
- Present infrastructure strategies, recommendations, risks, and cost implications to business leaders and senior technology leadership
- Translate complex technical concepts into transparent, outcome‑focused communication tailored and understood by a variety of audiences
- Provide leadership to influence adoption of standard platforms, patterns, and best practices across projects
- Build credibility through strong professional presence, clear decision‑making, and delivery accountability- Innovation & Productivity Enablement
- Identify opportunities for automation and AI‑assisted execution to enhance efficiency
- Continually seek, recommend and lead opportunities outside of daily job responsibilities to adopt new services, improve customer experience, identify delivery process improvements, implement efficiencies, support a one-team culture, delivery solutions, processes and performance, within DCIO/Busines

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