Manager Tech M&A Full Time

As a Manager in the Technology M&A team, you will lead and drive the technical evaluation, planning, and execution of IT-focused workstreams across the M&A lifecycle. Your responsibilities will include IT due diligence, integration planning, and separation (carve-out) execution. You will work closely with clients (corporate or private equity), cross-functional deal teams, and technical stakeholders to identify technology risks and value levers, recommend strategies, and deliver roadmaps for tech integration or separation.

Key Responsibilities

Pre-Deal / Due Diligence

• Lead technology due diligence for buy-side and sell-side engagements: assess the target’s IT organization, applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and technology maturity.
• Identify and evaluate technology risks, technical debt, hidden costs, and integration complexity.
• Develop detailed deliverables: data request lists, interview guides, agendas, architecture assessments, cost models, synergies, transition service agreement (TSA) schedules, integration or separation roadmaps.
• Estimate IT cost transformation opportunities, synergies, and post-deal investments.
• Synthesize and present findings to executive stakeholders (both technical and business), providing actionable recommendations.
• Support the proposal process: define scope, pricing, and resource plans for prospective clients. Post-Deal / Integration & Separation

Lead post-merger IT integration or carve-out separation programs

• For carve-outs, define and manage the “IT Separation Management Office”; for integrations, drive the “IT Integration Management Office” (IMO).
• Define and design the target IT operating model, including organizational structure, governance, processes, and systems alignment.
• Develop and maintain program governance artifacts: project plan, status dashboards, risk & issue logs, resource plans.
• Lead initiative to disentangle and rationalize systems, cloud infrastructure, vendor contracts, and service delivery (outsourcing/offshoring) where relevant.
• Ensure smooth “Day 1” readiness: design day-zero run-rates, TSA (if any), and operating model handover.
• Mentor junior team members, providing technical and project leadership, knowledge sharing, and quality control of deliverables.

Client Engagement & Business Development

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client C-level and senior stakeholders on technology risks, dependencies, and opportunities in M&A.
• Contribute to business development efforts — help shape proposals, estimate effort, define offering differentiators, and identify cross-sell opportunities.
• Stay up to date with trends in M&A technology (cloud, data center, cyber, SaaS) and integrate best practices into client engagements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in IT / technology consulting, transaction advisory, or consulting with significant exposure to M&A.
• Deep experience in IT due diligence (pre-deal) and post-deal integration or separation. (Big 4 or strategy consulting preferred.)
• Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams on complex M&A technology engagements.
• Good understanding of enterprise applications (on-prem, cloud), infrastructure (data centers, cloud), data architecture, and cybersecurity.
• Familiar with vendor management, outsourcing/offshoring, and IT operating models.
• Experience with integration patterns, carve-out strategies, TSA design, and technology road mapping.
• Ability to build and analyze cost models, synergy estimates, and IT financial projections.
• Experience in benchmarking, risk quantification, and value-creation analysis.
• Strong program management capabilities: planning, governance, risk management.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), able to interact with senior stakeholders (technical and business).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. (MBA or advanced degree is a plus.)