Senior Consultant - Digital Transformation

The UBDS group is seeking a Senior Business Transformation Consultant to lead and support complex transformation engagements across client environments. This role focuses on shaping and delivering business and technology transformation initiatives, with particular emphasis on modernising legacy systems and services.

The successful candidate will apply a user centred and design led approach across the full agile lifecycle, from Discovery through to Live, ensuring that solutions are aligned to user needs, organisational objectives and long term sustainability. Working closely with stakeholders, the role requires strong influencing skills to drive change, unlock opportunities and deliver meaningful, lasting outcomes.

• Lead and support business transformation initiatives, particularly those involving legacy technology and service modernisation.
• Apply design thinking and User Centred Design (UCD) principles across all phases of delivery, from Discovery, Alpha, Beta through to Live.
• Facilitate and manage organisational change activities, working closely with users to embed new processes, systems and ways of working.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders to build strong relationships, elicit critical information and support successful delivery outcomes.
• Identify opportunities for improvement, innovation and future work within client engagements.
• Collaborate with multi disciplinary teams to ensure transformation initiatives are aligned to business needs and deliver measurable value.
• Support the shaping of transformation strategies, roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Provide guidance on agile methodologies, ensuring a transformation led (not solely technology led) approach to delivery.
• Contribute to the development of business cases, options papers and strategic recommendations.
• Monitor and evaluate transformation outcomes, ensuring benefits realisation and continuous improvement.

• Strong understanding of transformation methodologies and frameworks.
• Knowledge of User Centred Design (UCD) and design thinking principles.
• Familiarity with agile delivery frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and their application in transformation contexts.
• Ability to develop transformation roadmaps and strategic plans.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to translate complex challenges into actionable solutions.
• Active SC Clearance or Eligible for SC clearance

• Change management certification (e.g. Prosci or equivalent).
• Agile certification (e.g. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM .
• Design thinking or User Centred Design related certification (desirable).

• Training - All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development, whether it is technical led, business acumen or methodologies. We want you to grow with us and to help us achieve more
• Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality
• Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance
• Holiday - You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays
• Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice
• Contributed Pension Scheme
• Death in service cover

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.