Strategic M&A Tech Diligence Architect Manager

Deloitte France; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte's M&A TS&D team seeks a Product Architect Manager to blend technology, product architecture, and transaction strategy. You will guide clients through high-impact diligence, assess architecture quality, and identify growth opportunities during buy-side, sell-side, and carve-out engagements.

The role emphasizes independent work, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a dynamic Deloitte environment in the M&A technology diligence space.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product architecture, software engineering, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• 6+ years of experience evaluating product architecture, platform design, cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize technology strategy by analyzing multiple solutions and reporting outputs.
• Evaluate software products, digital platforms, engineering environments, and support technology ecosystems for strengths, risks, and scalability.
• 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, SDLC, strategy and roadmap, and underlying infrastructure.
• Identify technical debt, legacy constraints, architecture bottlenecks, and other technology risks affecting valuation or investment thesis.
• Review engineering maturity across the software development lifecycle, DevSecOps, 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.
• Understand 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 workstreams.
• 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 reflect the engagement contract and client needs and 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 areas that arise during diligence activities.

Skills

Product architecture

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Platform engineering

Cloud environments

Independent work

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Project leadership

Job description

Deloitte's M&A TS&D team seeks a Product Architect Manager to blend technology, product architecture, and transaction strategy. You will guide clients through high-impact diligence, assess architecture quality, and identify growth opportunities during buy-side, sell-side, and carve-out engagements.

The role emphasizes independent work, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration within a dynamic Deloitte environment in the M&A technology diligence space.