Modernisation Transformation Lead

We are seeking a seasoned technologist to guide organisations through complex legacy modernisations and drive business success.

This role requires partnering closely with different business verticals to identify modernisation opportunities aligned with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

As a trusted advisor, you will work with clients' C-level executives and other stakeholders to enable them to achieve their business goals and redefine their industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with different business verticals in identifying modernisation opportunities aligned with industry best practices and emerging technologies.
• Be involved in pre-sales, lead generation, creating proposals, shaping engagements for clients, and helping educate both clients and colleagues about the value of our services and the commercial success they can deliver.
• Take a consultative approach with clients' C-level executives and other stakeholders, working as their trusted advisor to enable them to achieve their business goals and redefine their industry.
• Be a key member of the Enterprise Modernisation, Platform and Cloud service line, creating points of view and solutioning content through your insights on client needs and associated solutions, and also through defining progressive and repeatable practices which will help us to scale our efforts.
• Drive creation of industry-leading IP and best practices for modernising legacy retail banking systems while nurturing and upskilling future thought leaders at Thoughtworks.
• Partner closely with technical leaders to support the delivery team, ensuring they have what they need to successfully execute engagement and deliver extraordinary impact to our clients.
• Stay current with Thoughtworks' business strategy and our technology goals.
• Achieve billing targets by being fully or fractionally staffed on client engagements.

• Have experienced and executed modernisation and migration in large-scale organisations.
• Possess a strong technical background, ideally experienced in more than one programming paradigms – familiarity with Python will be a bonus.
• Be familiar with new and emerging technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Istio , PostgreSQL databases.
• Understand evolutionary architectures and modern architecture principles such as MACH (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless) and LIFESPAR (Latency-aware, Instrumented, Failure-aware, Event-driven, Secure, Parallelisable, Automated and Resource-consumption aware) and how to use them in practice.
• Have strong knowledge of building cloud-native architectures using microservices and serverless along with interaction styles such as synchronous and asynchronous communication, data streaming and API technologies and lifecycle management.
• Have the ability to understand various levels of consistency such as linearizability vs serializability.
• Have the knowledge of established and emerging approaches for achieving high availability and disaster recovery, including running systems across multi AZ, multi region and multi-cloud vendor environments.
• Have experience in building security and system performance management functions in solutions from the start.
• Have strong client-facing skills with the ability to position, defend and communicate effectively a technical position to a room of skilled client architects.
• Exhibit attention to detail, a practical approach to the day-to-day work of story-writing and delivery, and can draw a line directly from an overarching client strategy to your team's outcomes.
• Be well-versed with Agile, Lean and Continuous Delivery methodologies, SRE practices and the DevOps philosophy.

• Have demonstrable experience in engaging with C-level stakeholders at the business and technology level, using a consultative selling approach to maximise the customer outcomes.
• Possess a strong technology and consulting acumen with the ability to positively translate into business value.

No one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks. Your career development is entirely up to you. We balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture, supporting your career journey through interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow.

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design, and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Our unique culture empowers each other to learn and challenge ourselves, driving our passion for innovation and dedication to delivering exceptional results.