Reporting to Head of Digital Transformation & Data (DT&D), the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
Use case identification and prioritisation
- Identifying and prioritising digital transformation use cases that deliver clear business value.
- Engaging with business users across the Company and the IT team to identify challenges and improvement opportunities and translating them into clear problem statements and outcome-based initiatives.
- Supporting prioritisation of initiatives based on value, solution complexity, technology readiness, and strategic alignment.
Solution design and architecture alignment
- Ensuring proposed solutions align with the Company's enterprise architecture, application landscape, and data strategy.
- Leading early solution design discussions to agree the most appropriate technology, solution approach, and implementation plan.
- Providing solution and architecture oversight across digital initiatives.
Vendor selection
- Leading vendor evaluations and providing input into vendor selection decisions.
- Ensuring vendor scope of work, proposed cost, and contract terms are consistent with Company standards and the agreed solution design.
- Facilitating and obtaining necessary internal management approvals for projects.
Project enablement and oversight
- Enabling project managers to focus on delivery by providing strong pre‑project definition and solution readiness.
- Providing ongoing guidance during delivery on scope interpretation and solution consistency.
- Identifying and escalating risks relating to scope creep, architectural misalignment, or delivery feasibility.
- Promoting structured, transparent, and repeatable delivery best practices across initiatives.
Cross functional collaboration
- Supporting cross‑functional discussions and problem solving for initiatives that cut across departments.
- Managing communication consistency across digital initiatives.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field. Master's degree is an added advantage.
- Minimum ten years of experience in enterprise technology, with a track record of leading in-house transformation initiatives covering solution design, enterprise architecture and delivery.
- Preferred certifications include TOGAF (or equivalent Enterprise Architecture) and project delivery certifications like PMP or PRINCE2.
- Strong experience operating at the interface of business, IT, and vendors.
- Proven experience shaping initiatives in early phases of the project (use cases, solution options, business cases).
- Experience supporting vendor selections, vendor evaluations, and contract scope definition.
- Experience working with enterprise systems (ERP, business applications, data platforms and integration tools).
- Good understanding of enterprise architecture and solution design principles.
- Strong understanding of project governance frameworks and delivery methodologies.
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to operate independently, with sound judgement and pragmatic decision‑making.
- Demonstrate the Company's core values of Integrity, Teamwork, Accountability, Agility, and Ambition.
