MorganFranklin Consulting LLC Looking for Senior Manager, GovCon Technology Advisory at McLean, VA  Full Time

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The Team – Technology Advisory

Work with a team of deeply skilled professionals who deliver transformational technology services and outcomes to Government Contracting Organizations, Private Equity, and Portfolio Companies.

You Are

As an M&A expert with specialized knowledge in government contracting, you will play a pivotal role in advising Government Contracting Organizations, Private Equity and Portfolio Companies throughout the M&A lifecycle. Your expertise will be essential in performing IT Due Diligence on potential acquisition targets, performing Day 1 planning, building M&A playbooks, defining and executing various absorption strategies. Your expertise will be essential for identifying opportunities, evaluating risks, and ensuring successful mergers & acquisitions.

As a team builder and problem solver, you are someone who knows how to lead and deliver, driven by seamless project execution. You’re not only concerned with the success of the project, but you’re building positive relationships with clients along the way. You’re leading their expectations and ensuring the standard of work is in line with promises made. There are a lot of moving pieces, but you’ve got the work ethic to stay on top of it all.

You stay updated on new products, technologies, and industry trends. You know how to use technology and applications to creatively design, prototype, and implement solutions for your client’s unique challenges. You know that collaboration is key, so you look for ways to share and source best practices. If there’s a new way to do something that improves outcomes for clients, you’ll find it.

Your Impact

• Lead large, complex projects through the project life cycle, including requirements definition, planning, development, testing, training, operational readiness, change management and ongoing support.
• Create M&A playbooks to prepare for acquisitions and integrations across systems, architecture, cyber security, and data.
• Define and execute various absorption models aligned to operational and financial organizational objectives.
• Prepare and execute comprehensive project plans for acquisitions, divestitures, and post-merger technology separation/integration projects.
• Lead operational and technology assessments and perform comprehensive IT Due Diligence in support of carve-outs, mergers, or post-close execution management.
• Work with stakeholder management and business teams to maintain business continuity during ongoing IT platform mergers.
• Assume a key IT role throughout the entire M&A deal process and ensure timely delivery of IT M&A projects.
• Articulate the quality and performance of IT environments, including security.
• Analyze IT costs, identify cost synergies that may arise from deals, and identify IT risks and mitigation plans.
• Drive the development and/or enhancement of IT M&A methodologies (diligence, planning, carve-outs).
• Embrace MorganFranklin’s client service approach and manage client relationships to ensure that high-quality and high-value services are provided to achieve clients’ objectives.
• Assist with the development and execution of a Program Roadmap including project prioritization and delivery.
• Educate internal and external audiences on IT Strategy and Governance best practices.
• Identify, design and implement creative business and technology solutions to continually improve the firm’s methodology and approach.
• Develop thought leadership materials.

Leadership Expectations

• Our expectation is that you would have prior experience and the ability to lead, guide, coach, and mentor teams.
• Actively participate in career development activities and technical training of staff.

At a minimum, you will have:

• 8+ years of IT M&A integration experience specifically within the aerospace & defense industry.
• Professional services experience related to IT project-based work or managing complex operational and/or IT projects related to IT carve-outs and M&A, with good depth across different technology stacks.
• Experience working within aerospace & defense environments.
• Experience with the IT M&A transaction lifecycle, including 100-day planning, performance improvement, and organization development.
• Experience developing management reporting, metrics, and formats to monitor and manage value creation initiatives across portfolio companies.
• Experience developing and leading strategic plans for acquisition targets.
• Experience designing enterprise technology architecture across various industries, including consolidating network, infrastructure, cyber, data, and application design and decisions for new companies.
• Experience developing and executing on a technology integration playbook for new acquisitions.
• Developing M&A programs to enhance acquisition targets.
• Experience managing IT activities related to infrastructure, security, service management, development, software, risk management and finance.
• Knowledge of and experience in operationalizing IT governance and service delivery models (e.g. ITIL, TOGAF, Agile).
• Knowledge and experience in assessing compliance against cybersecurity frameworks and industry regulations (CMMC, NIST, GDPR, ITAR, HIPPA, PCI)
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Management or related field.
• Due to the unique security requirements for this client portfolio, US Citizenship is required.
• Flexibility to travel up to 25%.

Preferably, you will have:

• Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification.
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Cloud technologies, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), or Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications.

MorganFranklin is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran status, physical impairment, political affiliation, marital status, disability, or on any other basis prohibited by law.