Director of IT Mergers and Acquisitions

About This Role

Lead global IT merger and acquisition initiatives, ensuring seamless technology transitions, minimizing risk, and unlocking synergies or efficiencies across acquired and divested businesses. This role involves leading IT due diligence, integration and separation planning, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee comprehensive buy-side and sell-side IT due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Identify key IT risks, opportunities, and required investments during due diligence
• Deliver executive-level due diligence reports with strategic recommendations
• Direct IT integration and separation initiatives from planning through execution
• Develop strategic deliverables including current state assessments, entanglement identification, and IT operating model definitions
• Establish and manage program governance frameworks for project execution, risk management, and issue tracking
• Collaborate with senior cross-functional teams to identify IT-related dependencies, risks, and opportunities
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement through meetings and strategic presentations with executive leadership and external advisors
• Monitor and report progress on integration/separation milestones and strategic outcomes to executive leadership
• Recommend and drive technology rationalization and modernization strategies
• Support operational excellence by ensuring consistent processes for IT due diligence, integration, and divestiture activities
• Contribute to the financial recast process by reviewing and identifying IT budgets and making adjustments
• Estimate and help manage IT costs associated with collaboration and standardization phases of acquisitions
• Lead efforts to mentor and develop project managers and junior staff

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
• Minimum eight years of recent experience in technology/business consulting and/or technology leadership
• Proven track record of leading IT transformations and advising on complex M&A transactions
• Demonstrated success in leading global, high-impact IT-focused M&A projects
• Expertise in at least three of: system integration/separation, platform migration, IT architecture modernization, outsourcing of IT operations, or regulatory technology implementation
• In-depth knowledge of post-merger IT integration, carve-out separation, process reengineering, offshoring strategies, and IT risk and compliance management
• Proven ability to lead and mentor cross-functional teams including advanced program management skills
• Comprehensive understanding of IT best practices and enterprise IT ecosystems, including major ERP and business application platforms, IT solutions, systems, infrastructure, and cybersecurity
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Analytical skills to solve complex business problems

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
• Minimum eight years of recent experience in technology/business consulting and/or technology leadership with a proven track record of leading IT transformations and advising on complex M&A transactions

Nice to Have

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university
• Experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies and driving business growth in the M&A space
• Client relationship management and engagement in business development activities

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits