Applications Transformation Advisor

Job Description:

Application Transformation Advisor
Business area: UKI Advisory X – Application Transformation
Location: UK-based / remote with travel as required. IDEALLY LONDON OFFICE BASED.
Security: Ability to support secure or regulated client environments, subject to project-specific eligibility requirements. Requires a sole UK national who hold or will undergo security clearance.

Role overview

We are seeking an experienced Application Transformation Lead / Senior Application Modernisation Advisor to help scale our Apps Transformation capability and improve our ability to convert client demand into revenue.

These are senior client-facing advisory roles focused on shaping, leading and mobilising enterprise application transformation and modernisation opportunities. The successful candidates will work with senior client stakeholders, enterprise architects, sales teams and delivery specialists to articulate the client problem, shape the transformation opportunity, define credible solution approaches and support the early-stage analysis and mobilisation of engagements.

The role requires strong consulting presence, technical credibility and commercial awareness. The focus is on providing the senior advisory capability needed to run multiple client conversations in parallel, support proposal and solution shaping, and help convert pipeline opportunities into deliverable transformation engagements.

Core purpose of the role

The successful candidates will:

• Lead and shape client conversations around application transformation and modernisation.
• Translate client business and technology challenges into clear transformation opportunities.
• Support opportunity qualification, solution shaping and proposal development.
• Provide credible advisory input across application rationalisation, migration, replatforming, modernisation and operating model considerations.
• Work with sales, presales, architecture and delivery teams to turn demand into structured, deliverable engagements.
• Support early-stage discovery, analysis, transformation planning and engagement mobilisation.
• Help build scalable capability by creating reusable approaches, templates and advisory assets.

Key responsibilities

Client advisory and opportunity shaping

• Engage directly with senior client technology and business stakeholders to understand their application estate challenges and transformation objectives.
• Shape clear, value-led application transformation narratives that clients can understand and act on.
• Facilitate workshops and discovery discussions to identify opportunities, risks, constraints and transformation priorities.
• Support senior governance and client decision-making through concise recommendations, options analysis and briefing materials.

Application transformation solutioning

• Assess application portfolios and advise on appropriate transformation pathways, including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire and retain.
• Identify dependencies across applications, infrastructure, hosting, security, integration, testing and operations.
• Shape pragmatic transformation roadmaps, migration approaches and mobilisation plans.
• Ensure solution recommendations are commercially realistic, technically credible and aligned to client outcomes.

Presales and revenue conversion

• Support sales and account teams in converting pipeline into structured application transformation engagements.
• Contribute to proposals, estimates, assumptions, staffing models and delivery approaches.
• Help define the resource profile required to deliver against specific pipeline opportunities.
• Link capability requirements to revenue opportunity, forecast risk and delivery feasibility.

Delivery mobilisation and governance

• Provide senior advisory input into the first phase of engagements, including discovery, analysis, planning and mobilisation.
• Work with enterprise architects, platform specialists, core systems SMEs, testing advisors and delivery teams to ensure transformation plans are viable.
• Support governance forums, risk reviews and technical assurance activities.
• Create reusable advisory frameworks, transformation accelerators and client-ready assets to improve consistency and scalability.

Required experience

• Significant experience in application transformation, application modernisation, enterprise technology transformation or strategic technology consulting.
• Strong client-facing consulting experience, including shaping and leading senior stakeholder conversations.
• Proven ability to support solution shaping, presales, proposal development and early-stage engagement mobilisation.
• Good understanding of enterprise application estates, application rationalisation, cloud migration, hosting models, infrastructure dependencies and operational readiness.
• Ability to assess transformation options and trade-offs across cost, risk, complexity, business impact and delivery feasibility.
• Experience working across sales, architecture, delivery and client stakeholder groups.
• Strong communication, facilitation and executive briefing skills.
• Commercially aware, pragmatic and able to operate with ambiguity in complex enterprise environments.

Desirable experience

• Experience in a global systems integrator, consulting firm or enterprise advisory organisation.
• Experience supporting regulated, secure or complex enterprise clients.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, hybrid hosting models, enterprise architecture and application dependency mapping.
• Experience creating reusable transformation frameworks, playbooks, templates or accelerators.
• Experience coaching junior consultants or helping build scalable delivery capability.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate will be a credible, commercially minded and technically fluent transformation advisor. They will be comfortable leading senior client conversations, shaping opportunities, working with sales and delivery teams, and turning ambiguous demand into clear, actionable transformation engagements.

They should be strong enough to “front” client discussions, but practical enough to work through the detail of application estates, dependencies, delivery assumptions and mobilisation risks. They will bring the confidence to sell the story, the judgement to shape the right solution, and the discipline to help convert pipeline into revenue.

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