Senior Software M&A Technology Advisor

West Monroe is excited to hire a Senior Software M&A Architect to join our Tech Transaction Services Practice (TTS) and deliver on M&A due diligence projects. The senior architect will partner with TTS consultants and client stakeholders to provide assessments and tech advisory across a variety of industries, including Private Equity, High-Tech & Software, Healthcare, and Financial Services. This is an exciting opportunity to join an employee-centric firm and lead strategic software/product due diligence assessments, post-merger integrations, and carve-out advisory engagements.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with TTS consultants from other competencies (Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity) in support of tech due diligence assessments for client M&A activity
• Identify remediation opportunities through analysis of existing technology systems, software applications, and business processes
• Assess underlying software/technology landscape within enterprise organizations to make recommendations to strategic investors on improving market readiness, achieving long-term scalability, and/or reducing operational cost
• Analyze contemporary, layered software application/architecture stacks down to the code level
• Evaluate SDLC processes, risks, and project management methods for best practices, security, and maturity levels
• Formulate strategic investment summaries, key risk mitigation analyses, and long-term technology-based strategy for both pre-close and post-close projects
• Establish linkage between business strategy and technology to deliver impactful outcomes
• Stay abreast of technology trends and their practical (or potential) application, and help clients understand the ‘art of the possible’ with innovative and disruptive technology solutions
• Drive new business with existing clients by identifying unique opportunities and liaising to appropriate client leads, account managers, or business developers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred or equivalent experience required
• Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
• 10-15+ years of experience in enterprise software architecture and strategy with development background in areas such as Microsoft .Net (C#, .NET Core, Azure), Java/J2EE (JDBC, Servlets, JSP), JavaScript (React, Angular), and/or other common stacks like Python/Ruby/AWS
• Confident in recognizing and applying modern software design concepts such as separation of concerns, microservices, service-oriented architecture, test-driven development, model-driven development, etc.
• Ability to measure maturity levels for development teams and affiliated practices, such as SDLC processes, adherence to modern PM methodology (I.e. Agile/Scrum), quality assurance testing, etc.
• Awareness of contemporary and legacy software architectural patterns and styles
• Demonstrated experience leading technical engagements including proposal development, estimation, and day-to-day project management (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting)
• Excellent critical thinking, leadership, communication, and project management skills
• Willingness to travel for client engagements