Requirements

• At least 15 years of technology experience, including significant responsibility for enterprise technology strategy, operations, transformation, or delivery.
• Demonstrated personal accountability for multiple technology integrations, separations, or carve-outs, including at least one transaction involving meaningful pre-close planning and post-close execution.
• Broad working knowledge of enterprise applications, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, identity, data, integrations, IT service management, vendor management, organizational design, and technology operating models.
• Strong judgment when assessing architecture, technical dependencies, operational risks, and transition feasibility, with the confidence to challenge senior technology leaders and make practical decisions across multiple technical domains.
• Hands-on experience developing or challenging Day 1 readiness plans, TSA strategies, application disposition decisions, target operating models, technology roadmaps, and execution plans.
• Commercial and financial fluency, including the ability to estimate and explain one-time transaction costs, recurring operating expenses, investment needs, potential synergies, and underlying assumptions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex technical information into concise, actionable recommendations for investment and operational decisions.
• A self-directed, pragmatic, and accountable working style, with a strong commitment to quality, delivery, and client outcomes.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving transaction environments with incomplete information, compressed timelines, and changing assumptions.
• Willingness and ability to work remotely, collaborate across time zones, and travel to client sites when required.
• Preferred experience: Previous leadership as a CIO, CTO, Technology Director, Head of IT, Head of Technology Transformation, M&A Technology Lead, Integration or Separation Technology Lead, enterprise architect, or senior leader in enterprise applications, infrastructure, or cybersecurity.
• Preferred experience: Exposure to private equity investors, operating partners, or private-equity-backed management teams.
• Preferred experience: Buy-side and sell-side transactions, including corporate divestitures, platform acquisitions, and add-on acquisitions.
• Preferred experience: Establishing standalone technology environments, exiting TSAs, consolidating application or infrastructure estates, and leading complex data or identity transitions.
• Preferred experience: Advisory or consulting experience; however, direct operational experience and personal responsibility for delivery are particularly valued.
• Preferred education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, business, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience is also highly valued.
• Preferred qualifications: Relevant certifications in technology, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, cloud computing, or program leadership are advantageous but not mandatory.

Benefits

• The opportunity to work on high-impact mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and carve-outs that shape technology strategy and private equity value creation.
• Exposure to senior decision-makers, including private equity investors, operating partners, boards, and executive technology leaders.
• A varied scope of work spanning transaction diligence, integration and separation planning, post-close execution, and interim technology leadership.
• Collaboration with experienced practitioners in small, senior teams, with access to specialist expertise when deeper technical knowledge is required.
• An initial apprenticeship across at least two engagements, providing structured exposure to established methodologies, tools, and quality standards.
• Opportunities to take ownership of client engagements and progress toward independent leadership of complex assignments.
• The chance to apply direct operating experience to challenging technology and business problems, with a focus on measurable outcomes rather than process alone.
• A remote-working setup with opportunities to collaborate across time zones and travel to client locations as engagement needs require.

How Jobgether Works

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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