Deloitte Extends Digital Engineering At Scale With Giant Machines Acquisition

‘What Giant Machines brings us is this strategic engineering lens. And when I say that, I mean the ability to start in ambiguity regardless of technology and help our clients make progress. That is a unique challenge to solve in our world today. We've had that in smaller pockets. But this is really our investment in our growth,’ says Tim Juravich, a principal at New York-based Deloitte Consulting.

IT consultant Deloitte Monday said it has acquired Giant Machines as a way to expand its digital engineering capabilities.

With the acquisition, Deloitte gets a team of engineers focused on large-scale product design and development capabilities that will help Deloitte Engineering and Deloitte Digital accelerate customers’ digital product development and delivery, said Tim Juravich, a principal at New York-based Deloitte Consulting who is responsible the company’s design-led products and engineering practice.

The acquisition stems from the need to address the question of how to take a customer from having an idea to having an actual product, Juravich (pictured above) told CRN.

“One of the biggest challenges that any of our clients face is, ‘We have an idea, how do we make it real,” he said. “You know, going from concept to code. We also have challenges with where clients are looking for a large transformation that requires them to switch technologies. They may have been working in a mainframe context, and they need to move to a web-friendly context, or they're going from a world where they've never had to work direct-to-consumer using mobile experiences, as an example.”

These types of challenges are unique and are rooted in technology, Juravich said.

“Ultimately, it requires a different skill set, a startup engineering ethos, if you will, that brought us to Giant Machines,” he said.

Giant Machines is a U.S.-based strategic engineering firm that is bringing Deloitte true full-stack engineers, a startup engineering mindset, and unparalleled skill sets, Juravich said. The company has 119 employees, according to LinkedIn.

“One of the most interesting ways they're able to do this is through their learning capability,” he said. “One of the most challenging things we hear from clients is, they want full stack. They want people that are unicorns. That is the conversation in the industry. Giant Machines has been able to create an amazingly diverse, powerful team, using to help fuel the skill sets necessary to be full-stack. They have a very tactical training curriculum that helps them grow using computer science educators [giving them the] skill sets, the mindsets, and the ability to move fast in a world that is craving it.”

Prior to the acquisition, Deloitte itself was very deep in specialized engineering, from data engineering to mobile engineering and other areas where customers have very specific specialized engineering needs, Juravich said. The company’s 2021 acquisition of India-based HashedIn Technologies and its 70,000 technology practitioners globally has given it the scale needed to do projects of any size, he said.

“What Giant Machines brings us is this strategic engineering lens,” he said. “And when I say that, I mean the ability to start in ambiguity regardless of technology and help our clients make progress. That is a unique challenge to solve in our world today. We've had that in smaller pockets. But this is really our investment in our growth. At this point, there's a lot of people that have scaled engineering, and we're amongst the best, but to be strategic and further up the lifecycle, there's really nobody doing that well. And That's what we're doing with Giant Machines.”

Deloitte declined to discuss financial terms of the acquisition, which closed Friday.

With the close of the acquisition, Giant Machines CEO Roy Yang has joined Deloitte as a principal focused on Deloitte’s TMT (technology, media, and telecommunications, life science, healthcare, and financial services clients, Juravich said.

Going forward, Giant Machines will be a core part of Deloitte approaches clients, and will show up as one Deloitte engineering team to our clients.

“Customers will be seeing the amazing team of Giant Machines alongside our existing skilled engineering teams in the market,” he said. “Day one, we're already delivering some amazing results together, and we're looking forward to continuing to grow that. So they'll be inherently integrated with all we do in engineering.”