Senior Architect - Mergers and Acquisitions

Sr Architect, Solution Architecture

At Trans Union, the Global Technology Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team serves as the technology partner for acquisitions, divestitures, investments, and corporate carve-outs across the organization. We are seeking a senior technical leader to own the end-to-end technology lifecycle of global transactions across buy-side, sell-side, and corporate carve-outs. This role demands a unique blend of deep enterprise architectural expertise, financial acumen, and deal-velocity execution.

You will lead transactions through two distinct phases: driving technical due diligence pre-close to inform valuations, and orchestrating complex integration or separation activities post-close. This role reports to Senior Director, M&A Global Technology.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

1. Pre-Close:
Due Diligence & Deal Formulation

• Technical Due Diligence:
  Lead deep-dive architectural assessments of target companies' infrastructure, application stacks, code quality, and data layers to identify technical debt, scalability limits, and operational risks.
• Target State Architecture:
  Define and articulate strategic options to align target companies' applications, data assets, and back-office systems with Trans Union's global enterprise architecture and Info Sec standards.
• Cost Modelling & Synergy Capture:
  Build detailed, data-driven technology cost models during diligence, forecasting the capital expenditures (Cap Ex) and operational expenses (OpEx) required for migration or standalone readiness.
• Deal Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner closely with Corporate Development and Business Development teams to feed technology risks, integration costs, and runway synergies directly into the final financial deal valuation.

2. Post-Close:
Integration, Carve-Outs, & Separation

• Integration Roadmap Execution:
  Design and execute detailed post-close technology integration schedules, transitioning targets smoothly from Day 1 readiness to full target-state operations.
• TSA Execution & Exit Management:
  Define, operationalize, and govern technology Transition Service Agreements (TSAs) for divestitures; rigorously track delivery milestones to ensure rapid, secure TSA exits and eliminate stranded costs.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Consolidation:
  Drive the physical and logical consolidation of global cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), legacy data centers, and enterprise back-office systems.
• Financial Tracking & Governance:
  Manage and track post-close technology integration budgets, monitoring actual spend against pre-close forecasts and reporting variances directly to executive leadership.
• Strategic Technical Leadership:
  Act as the primary executive escalation point to unblock engineering teams, resolve complex architectural bottlenecks, and align cross-functional streams (Legal, HR, Security).

• Proven M&A Track Record:
  Minimum of 5 years in enterprise architecture, engineering leadership, or technical consulting, with at least 2 years dedicated to leading global M&A transactions.
• Full M&A Lifecycle Ownership:
  Documented success leading transactions from pre-diligence scoping through to final post-close integration or complex carve-out separation.
• TSA Governance Expertise:
  Direct experience creating, negotiating, tracking, and exiting technology TSAs for corporate divestitures.
• Architectural Depth:
  Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, enterprise application integration (EAI), software engineering (including code quality and SDLC evaluation), data engineering/analytics pipelines, and modern cybersecurity frameworks.
• Financial Modeling
  
  Skills:
  
  Proficiency in building technology cost models (Cap Ex/OpEx) during diligence and managing multi-million dollar integration budgets post-close.

• Industry: Experience executing M&A within highly regulated data, fintech, financial services, or credit-reporting environments.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a…