Director, PEPI - Technology Services CTO Domain

• CDD/Strategy

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results‑oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands‑on approach to solving our clients’ problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

A&M's Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) practice focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged A&M to help improve operating results at their portfolio companies ($50M–$1B+ revenue range).

• IT / Product / Engineering (Technology Services)
• CDD/Strategy
• Interim Management
• Merger Integration & Carve‑outs
• Rapid Results
• Supply Chain
• CFO Services

The Technology Services Team works directly with private equity firms and their portfolio companies to drive measurable value through applied AI. Within the CTO Domain, our engagements target the software engineering, product development, and technical delivery organizations of portfolio companies—helping them embed AI across the SDLC, Dev Ops pipeline, and product lifecycle to increase engineering throughput, reduce R&D cost, and accelerate time‑to‑market.

Specific focus areas include:

• AI‑native SDLC transformation: embedding agentic AI coding tools and assistants across requirements, design, code generation, code review, testing, and release management
• Engineering productivity measurement and uplift: DORA metrics improvement, developer capacity modeling, and AI tooling ROI quantification
• Dev Ops and CI/CD pipeline modernization incorporating AI‑driven automation, intelligent testing, and deployment orchestration
• MLOps and AI model lifecycle management: model versioning, CI/CD for ML, monitoring, drift detection, and responsible AI guardrails
• Platform engineering: AI‑accessible developer platforms, self‑service internal tooling, and Backstage‑based developer portals with AI integrations
• Technical debt assessment and architecture modernization to enable AI‑ready, cloud‑native engineering environments
• AI‑enabled product roadmap acceleration: using AI to shorten development cycles, increase feature velocity, and reduce cost per feature delivered
• End‑to‑end transformation execution, governance, and value tracking tied to engineering financial targets

We align AI initiatives with investment theses, financial targets, and operational realities to ensure durable impact.

As a Director in the PEPI Technology Services AI team [CTO Domain], you will independently lead AI‑driven value creation engagements across the private equity lifecycle, with a specific focus on the software engineering, product development, and technical delivery organizations of PE‑backed portfolio companies. You own scope, workplan, client relationships, and financial outcomes end‑to‑end.

This role requires a practitioner who has operated inside or directly alongside engineering and product organizations—someone who has personally led SDLC transformations, managed engineering teams, governed AI coding tool rollouts, or run Dev Ops programs at scale—and who can translate that hands‑on operating experience into rapid, credible impact within the compressed timelines of a PE holding period.

• Own the full engagement lifecycle: scoping, work planning, team management, executive communications, and financial delivery against defined engineering performance targets
• Serve as primary point of contact for portfolio company CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and PE deal partners
• Lead cross‑functional engagement teams spanning software engineering, product management, Dev Ops, platform engineering, and data/ML
• Drive executive‑level workshops and steering committee presentations; translate engineering findings into financial narratives for PE…