M&A Product Tech Diligence Architect, Manager

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Technology (tech) Diligence is part of Deloitte’s M&A Transaction Strategy & Diligence Transaction (TS&D) Offering, within our broader Strategy & Transactions practice. Our Technology Diligence practitioners are focused on delivering successful, informed business decisions for our clients by identifying the key product technology risks and opportunities associated with the most challenging M&A transactions. They are seeking a Product Architect Manager to add to their team who will have the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology, product architecture, and M&A strategy.

You will play a visible role in high-impact transaction work, helping clients assess technology risk, validate growth readiness, and identify post-close priorities that shape investment outcomes. Apply today!

Recruiting for this role ends on 07/30/2026.

• Synthesize overall technology strategy by analyzing a wide variety of solutions, selecting the most relevant tools/techniques to meet specific client requirements such as business case, pricing, or complex financial and technical analysis, and interpreting and reporting on outputs
• Evaluate software products, digital platforms, engineering environments, and support technology ecosystems to identify strengths, risks, scalability considerations, technical debt, and value creation opportunities
• Evaluate architecture quality, technical debt, engineering maturity, and platform scalability
• Assist in product and technology architecture assessments for buy-side, sell-side, and carve-out due diligence engagements
• Assess product scalability, resilience, maintainability, extensibility, security and operational readiness across R&D organization, SDLC, strategy and roadmap, and underlying infrastructure
• Identify technical debt, legacy constraints, architecture bottlenecks, and other technology risks that may affect valuation or investment thesis
• Review engineering maturity across the software development lifecycle, Dev Sec Ops , release management, testing, observability, and governance
• Assess the feasibility of the product roadmap and the architecture’s ability to support future growth, modernization, and integration
• Analyze third-party dependencies, vendor concentration, platform supportability, and operational vulnerabilities
• Encompass a strong understanding of modern architectural patterns, including microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud-native platforms, and SaaS environments
• Translate technical findings into concise diligence outputs, including red flags, risk assessments, Day 1 implications, and value creation recommendations
• Present a coherent perspective in verbal, written and analytical formats, as part of a broader M&A diligence effort
• Collaborate with broader diligence teams across commercial, financial, operational, cybersecurity, and data work streams
• Support post-close planning by advising on integration complexity, separation considerations, modernization priorities, and architecture-related synergies
• Develop work plans for components of engagements, coordinate activities between work streams and identify changes in scope
• Design deliverable content to precisely reflect the engagement contract and client needs and strive to improve deliverable quality through verification and validation of results
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including private equity investors, corporate development teams, CTOs, CIOs, and executive sponsors
• Ability to be resourceful with certain subject matter…