M&A Product Tech Diligence Architect, Manager

Work You'll Do

• Assess the product and technology architecture of acquisition targets, divestiture assets, and portfolio companies to help clients make informed transaction decisions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to corporate and private equity (PE) clients.
• Evaluate software products, digital platforms, engineering environments, and support technology ecosystems to identify strengths, risks, scalability considerations, technical debt, and value creation opportunities.
• Evaluate architecture quality, technical debt, engineering maturity, and platform scalability.
• Assist in product and technology architecture assessments for buy-side, sell-side, and carve-out due diligence engagements.
• Assess product scalability, resilience, maintainability, extensibility, security and operational readiness across R&D organization, SDLC, strategy and roadmap, and underlying infrastructure.
• Identify technical debt, legacy constraints, architecture bottlenecks, and other technology risks that may affect valuation or investment thesis.
• Analyze third-party dependencies, vendor concentration, platform supportability, and operational vulnerabilities.
• Translate technical findings into concise diligence outputs, including red flags, risk assessments, Day 1 implications, and value creation recommendations.
• Present a coherent perspective in verbal, written, and analytical formats, as part of a broader M&A diligence effort.
• Collaborate with broader diligence teams across commercial, financial, operational, cybersecurity, and data workstreams.
• Support post-close planning by advising on integration complexity, separation considerations, modernization priorities, and architecture-related synergies.
• Develop work plans for components of engagements, coordinate activities between work streams, and identify changes in scope.
• Design deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs and strive to improve deliverable quality through verification and validation of results.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including private equity investors, corporate development teams, CTOs, CIOs, and executive sponsors.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product architecture, software engineering (historical and contemporary technology stacks), enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• 6+ years of experience evaluating product architecture, platform design, cloud environments, integration patterns, APIs, data flows, and infrastructure dependencies.
• 6+ years of experience designing, assessing, or modernizing complex software products and digital platforms.
• 3+ years of experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• 3+ years of experience synthesizing data, identifying risks and value-creation opportunities, and developing perspectives and implications as part of an overall concrete assessment of the subject company.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments with multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.
• Collaborating with practitioners in other practices and businesses.
• Experience leading digital transformation efforts across custom-developed technologies, etc.
• Experience leading pre- and post- merger M&A IT activities.
• Assisting in the completion and delivery of at least 2 IT due diligence projects for strategic or financial clients.
• Assisting in the completion and delivery of at least 5 software assessments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues in business terms.