Transformation Director

Job Summary

We are seeking a Principal Leader to help oversee and enable a large-scale technology modernisation initiative for one of our clients. The role will act as a bridge between business strategy, product requirements, and technical delivery, ensuring alignment across multiple product lines and major platform transformation workstreams.

Key responsibilities Programme & Solution Enablement

• Oversee the coordination of four major modernisation workstreams.
• Build and maintain the strategic programme roadmap in partnership with product and technology leads.
• Facilitate Domain-Driven Design workshops and solution alignment sessions with product, engineering, and architecture teams.

Business & Technology Alignment

• Partner with product leaders from across all platforms to align feature roadmaps, ensuring a common platform vision and measurable business value.
• Translate technical dependencies (microservices, Unity/WebView, API contracts, Pub/Sub messaging, etc.) into business impacts and clear decision points.
• Ensure new services and client capabilities are designed with long-term reuse, scalability, and resilience in mind.

Delivery Oversight

• Ensure dependencies between backend and frontend services and teams are identified, tracked, and resolved.
• Work with engineering leads to identify risks from documentation gaps, technical debt, and hidden dependencies, and propose mitigation plans.
• Promote best practices in CI/CD, GitOps pipelines, and microservices lifecycle management.

Skills & Experience Essential

• Proven track record in digital transformation or platform modernisation programmes.
• Strong background in enterprise/solution architecture with understanding of microservices and cloud-native patterns.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, able to balance business priorities with technical constraints.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, event storming, and product domain mapping.
• Deep understanding of software development operating models and cross-functional product/engineering organisation design.
• Consulting or advisory experience in complex multi-vendor, multi-product environments.

Preferred

• Background in gaming / social casino / large-scale consumer applications.
• Familiarity with Unity and Webview architecture.
• Experience with GCP (Pub/Sub, autoscaling, observability) or equivalent cloud environments.
• Strong working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and platform enablement practices.

Location

London: 2-3 days in office near Heathrow.

Benefits

• A highly competitive compensation package.
• Medical insurance.
• The chance to join an organisation with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
• The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.