Senior Architect - Mergers and Acquisitions

## Senior Architect - Mergers and Acquisitions Apply locations:
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** Team Overview
** 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.
** Role Overview and Core Responsibilities
** 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).
** Required Knowledge and Experiences**
* ** 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…