Principal Engineer, Network Engineering M&A

Position Summary

The Principal Network Engineer will lead network assessment, architecture, integration, and divestiture activities associated with mergers, acquisitions, and business separations. This role serves as the technical lead responsible for evaluating acquired environments, developing integration strategies, and driving execution plans that align acquired organizations with enterprise networking and security standards. The position combines hands-on technical expertise with cross-functional leadership across infrastructure, security, and M&A teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical due diligence activities for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

• Assess target-company network environments, data centers, connectivity models, applications, and security architectures.

• Develop network integration and migration roadmaps for acquired or divested businesses.

• Design secure connectivity between acquired environments and the enterprise network.

• Evaluate networking technologies against enterprise architecture standards and identify remediation requirements.

• Partner with acquisition teams, security teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to define integration requirements.

• Create technical plans and provide engineering leadership throughout execution.

• Identify technical risks, operational dependencies, deficiencies, and integration cost considerations.

• Apply the preferred, acceptable, discouraged, and unacceptable (PADU) model to target inventories and recommend remediation.

• Establish modernization recommendations that improve network performance, resiliency, security, and supportability.

This job profile description is a standardized, non-contractual reference description and global reference tool provided for organizational consistency and talent architecture purposes across Cencora. It does not alter actual job duties, responsibilities, reporting lines, working conditions, grading, compensation, or other essential terms and conditions of employment.

Actual duties and responsibilities may vary based on business needs, local requirements, and operational practices. Where a team member's role is governed by an employment agreement, local terms and conditions, prior job description or collective bargaining agreement, those documents shall prevail in case of any inconsistency. Mandatory local laws shall also prevail.

Required Qualifications

• Principal-level engineering experience in enterprise networking.

• Deep expertise in network architecture, design, implementation, and operations.

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or large-scale infrastructure transformations.

• Strong knowledge of network security, segmentation, routing, switching, data-center connectivity, and enterprise integration patterns.

• Experience evaluating infrastructure environments and developing actionable integration plans.

• Ability to work independently, lead technically complex initiatives, and influence technical and business stakeholders.

• Experience with modern engineering practices and Agile ways of working.

• Familiarity with Jira, GitHub, network orchestration, automation, and related engineering toolsets.

Preferred Qualifications

• M&A integration experience in any industry; healthcare experience is beneficial.

• Experience supporting large, complex enterprise environments.

• Exposure to data-center consolidation, application integration, and cloud connectivity initiatives.

• Network automation or infrastructure-as-code experience.

• Relevant networking or cloud certifications.
• referred.

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit