Head of Discipline – Transformation & Digital Insights

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and manage a growing multi-disciplinary advisory team across Digital, Data, GIS and Transformation services.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment and onboarding to meet growth targets (building an additional c. 20+ FTEs over the next two years).
• Foster a high performing, integrated ‘one team’ culture, encouraging open communication, trust, shared accountability, and collective success.

Build and Mature Capabilities

• Work with UK teams to define and implement emerging GCC capabilities, including Digital Advisory, Data Analytics, Change and Adoption Management and Transformation Management Office services to strengthen and grow the advisory offering.
• Build a strong understanding of UK market needs and priority sectors to ensure GCC capability development and recruitment aligns with priorities and demand.
• Provide regular updates and reports to clients on project status and milestones.

Digital & Platform Leadership

• Own and shape the GCC’s digital engineering and platform strategy, with a strong focus on Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), Azure-native services, and enterprise digital solutions.
• Provide senior leadership oversight on solution architecture, platform governance, security, scalability, and technical quality across digital initiatives.
• Balance low code / rapid development approaches with enterprise grade delivery standards, ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, and scalable.
• Act as an informed senior counterpart to UK digital and technology leaders, able to challenge, shape and validate digital solution approaches.

UK Integration & Ways of Working

• Establish strong working relationships with UK Transformation and Digital leadership and teams.
• Embed standardised processes for deployment, quality assurance, communication and project handover.
• Support the development of a joint operating model, ensuring the GCC functions as an extension of the UK team.
• Enable consistent cross team knowledge sharing, learning, and visibility of work pipelines.

Delivery Oversight & Quality Assurance

• Act as a delivery leader across GCC workstreams, supporting planning, prioritisation and resourcing.
• Ensure high quality output, adherence to UK delivery standards, and operational excellence across projects through appropriate processes and capabilities.
• Monitor team utilisation, support workforce planning, and proactively identify opportunities for deployment.
• Ensure the team contributes effectively to bids, proposal materials, case studies and client pursuits.

Capability Evolution & Skill Mix Balancing

• Actively reshape the capability mix of the T&DI GCC to align with future demand, shifting from legacy heavy execution work towards digital engineering, data platforms, automation and change led transformation.
• Drive upskilling, redeployment or transition of existing capabilities (including GIS) towards higher value, insight led and platform integrated services.
• Make informed, sometimes difficult, decisions on capability relevance to ensure the team remains future ready and market aligned.
• Ensure the team contributes effectively to bids, proposal materials, case studies and client pursuits.

Success in this Role Means

• Strong, trusted UK–GCC relationships.
• High utilisation and predictable deployment.
• New capabilities built and embedded.
• High quality delivery aligned to UK standards.
• Clear, scalable operating model between UK and GCC.
• Growing, motivated advisory team.
• A demonstrable shift in capability mix towards digital, data and change led services.
• Tangible digital and data assets in active use across UK engagements.
• Reduced dependency on low value, repeatable execution work through automation and platforms.
• Proven senior leadership experience managing multi‑disciplinary advisory teams across transformation, digital, and analytics domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple advisory service lines or cost centres within a complex delivery environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, with experience engaging senior UK stakeholders.

Qualification & Requirements

Key Competencies / Skills:

• Proven experience in delivery governance, quality assurance, workforce planning, and utilisation management.
• Strong commercial awareness with demonstrated contribution to advisory bids, proposals, and pursuits.
• Leadership‑level understanding of data, analytics, digital transformation, and insight‑led decision making.
• Familiarity with modern data and analytics platforms (preferably Azure‑based ecosystems).
• Exposure to analytics tools and languages (e.g. SQL, Python), geospatial technologies and advanced visualisation is advantageous.
• Understanding of Agile and modern delivery practices.
• Demonstrated senior level understanding of enterprise digital platforms, including low code / no code ecosystems and cloud native architectures.
• Ability to lead and influence senior technologists and engineers without needing to be hands on, while still providing credible technical challenge.
• Experience operating at the intersection of digital delivery, data, and organisational change, rather than treating these as separate disciplines.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience establishing or scaling a GCC / advisory centre supporting UK or global markets.
• Experience developing reusable advisory accelerators, analytics assets, and delivery playbooks.
• Relevant certifications such as Azure, Agile or Change Management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Data/Analytics, Technology or a related field.
• Typically 15+ years of relevant professional experience with senior leadership responsibility.
• Willingness to work across time zones and undertake periodic UK travel as required.

Benefits

No information available.