Applications Lead (Technology Value Creation)

What Alysian isAlysian is an advisory boutique working exclusively with private equity firms and their portfolio companies across Europe and the US. We do technology work with a value-creation lens: due diligence, carve-outs, transformation delivery, and IT cost programs- packaged as standardized solutions, delivered by small, senior teams of experienced practitioners. We're aligned with the fund and work hand in hand with the portfolio company. This means independence, a clear mandate, and licence to give straight answers, grounded in the value creation plan and the data. We are scaling, which means the playbooks are real but still being written, and the people who join now help write them.About the roleAlysian is hiring an Applications Lead to own the applications work-stream of complex technology carve-outs, TSA exits, and post-merger integrations across private equity portfolio companies. The role pairs deep technical understanding of an enterprise application estate with the consulting muscle to coordinate SIs, vendors, app owners, and business stakeholders through separation, migration, and steady state. Typical programs span 100+ applications across ERP, CRM, HRIS, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and customer platforms, within EUR 50M – 100M+ technology separation envelopes.Key responsibilities• Own the applications workstream end-to-end: portfolio inventory, mapping, separation strategy, sequencing, execution, cutover, and hypercare.• Build and maintain the application portfolio view — business criticality, ownership, dependencies, TSA scope, separation approach, target-state design.• Design and execute application separation, migration, consolidation, or rationalisation strategies aligned to the carve-out / TSA exit plan.• Coordinate across SIs, software vendors, internal app owners, infrastructure / data / integration leads, and business stakeholders during separation.• Identify application-level risks to Day 1 readiness, TSA exit, business continuity, and cost-to-achieve; surface fact-based issues to the Control Tower Lead and PE sponsor.• Support cutover planning, hypercare, and steady-state transition; act as PMO peer to SI Application Program Directors.Required experience• Strong experience in consulting, transformation advisory, systems integration, or PE-backed portco with a named carve-out / separation track record.• Direct ownership of application workstreams during IT separations, TSA exits, or post-merger integrations at EUR 50M – 100M+ scale.• Strong applications breadth across ERP, CRM, HRIS, finance, supply chain and customer platforms, with adjacent fluency in cloud migration, hosting, and integration.• Experience with multi-vendor / multi-SI coordination, technical due diligence, system unification, and technical debt reduction.• Strong consulting skills — problem structuring, executive PowerPoint storylining, decision papers, senior stakeholder management.• Comfortable with CIO / CTO / Transformation Director / PE Operating Partner audiences at PE pace.What we offerRemote-first, genuinely. Work from anywhere in the US; no office attendance theatre, and travel measured in days per quarter, not days per week.Small teams, real ownership. You own your piece of the work, deal directly with the client, and see your name on the outcome. There is no layer above you doing the interesting parts.PE exposure from day one. Our clients are PE funds and their portfolio companies. The work is close to the investment thesis, and you see the results in the numbers.A firm scaling, with ambition. Playbooks, solutions, and ways of working are taking shape - VPs joining now shape them. A builder's seat, if you want one; a warning, if you need mature infrastructure around you.Progression on outcomes. Small firm, visible work, no tenure clocks.