Senior Software M&A Technology Consultant
Ready to thrive in the next step on your career journey?
West Monroe is looking for a Sr. Technology Consultant to join our team of experts supporting M&A transactions. This role allows you to work side-by-side with our team of resident experts (including former CTOs) to assess risks and opportunities within custom software applications across a wide range technology stacks and industries. Additionally, with our flexible career model, you are able to participate in projects within our technology practice to continually expand your skillset while working with cutting edge tools, platforms, and frameworks. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to both the technology and M&A practices while supporting strategic enterprise architecture projects, software/product due diligences, post-merger integrations, and carve-out advisory engagements.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with our team of technology experts and consultants on technology due diligence assessments for M&A clients; identify remediation opportunities through analysis of existing technology systems, software applications, and business processes
- Assess the underlying technical environment within an organization, and make recommendations on how to achieve long-term scalability and reduce operational cost
- Evaluate IT and technical development processes for best practices and levels of maturity
- Identify key process issues and risks in the context of an investment thesis while evaluating potential acquisitions for our Private Equity clients
- Demonstrate expertise in designing technology solutions through systems integration and application development
- Develop presentations to communicate due diligence findings and potential recommendations to client leadership
- Opportunities to lead discussions with executive leadership
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Industry experience preferred
- 2-5 years of hands-on software development experience, preferably within greenfield projects
- Knowledge of and experience with complex business systems integration, custom object-oriented design/development (C#, Java, Python, etc.), and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Experience applying Agile/Lean methodologies to manage project tasks
- Experience in technical engagements including proposal development, estimation, and day-to-day project management (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting)
- Strong sense of urgency with ability to deliver solutions in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- Excellent critical thinking and communication
- Experience working within a collaborative, cross-functional, team-based environment
- Potential for travel for out-of-town client engagements – COVID-19 permitting
Ready to get started? Join our team and make an impact.
At West Monroe, our people are our business.
We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting—and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious.
Our people-first culture is core to our identity. It’s something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, unique perspectives, and the drive to make an impact for our clients.
We also know that the best outcomes for both our people and our clients result from including diverse perspectives at the table. That’s why inclusion & diversity is one of our core values.
Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that’s where you come in.
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