World Wide Technolgy
Principal Advisor - Technology Transformation
London or Remote
Full Time
The Principal Advisor is a senior transformation leader within WWT Engineering Services. You will shape strategic technology led change for customers from presales architecture visioning to delivery governance, ensuring that every engagement drives measurable, business‑aligned transformation outcomes.
You blend technology strategy, enterprise architecture, presales solutioning, delivery excellence, and organisational transformation. As a senior partner to Sales and Delivery, you ensure the solutions we propose are strategically grounded, technically sound, and executable in real‑world customer environments.
Key Responsibilities
1) Technology Transformation Strategy & Architecture Leadership
- Lead the development of modernisation strategies and technology transformation roadmaps across cloud, data, security, workplace, networking, automation, and platform domains.
- Connect business strategy to architectural direction — framing current‑state challenges and defining target‑state architectures, capabilities, operating models, and value realisation paths.
- Facilitate executive‑level discussions that simplify complex technology landscapes and drive alignment on transformation priorities.
2) Presales Leadership & Outcome‑Driven Solutioning
- Own the transformation narrative in pursuit cycles, developing outcome‑focused proposals, architectural options, and multi‑phase execution plans.
- Translate problem statements into scalable, secure, cost‑effective architectures and implementation pathways that balance innovation with risk.
- Drive end‑to‑end presales solutioning across ES&A, Consulting, EA, Practices, and ATC — ensuring scope, stages, risks, governance, and success measures are defined from the outset.
- Engage confidently with C‑level and senior technical leaders to shape demand and align on strategic direction.
3) Delivery Excellence & Transformation Governance
- Provide senior oversight throughout delivery to protect the architectural intent, transformation roadmap, and business‑outcome commitments.
- Operate the Two‑in‑the‑Box model with PMO to control scope, risks, dependencies, quality gates, and stakeholder communications.
- Lead or support transformation governance forums (steering committees, architectural boards) to ensure alignment, transparency, and executive confidence.
- Champion measurable value: operating‑model change, adoption, risk reduction, performance uplift, and transformation KPIs.
4) Organisational Change, Adoption & Operating‑Model Shift
- Ensure technology transformation is matched by people, process, and organisational evolution, including role definition, capability uplift, training, and embedding new ways of working.
- Guide customers through the impacts of modernisation (e.g., cloud operating models, agile DevOps adoption, automation‑driven processes, zero‑trust uplift).
- Partner with delivery and consulting teams to ensure transformation outcomes are achieved and sustained beyond project completion.
5) Practice Development, Offerings & Thought Leadership
- Lead or co‑lead development of new ES&A transformation offerings — patterns, methodologies, accelerators, reference architectures, value frameworks.
- Strengthen repeatable approaches for strategy‑to‑execution, discovery‑to‑roadmap, and presales‑to‑delivery continuity.
- Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers to raise the organisation’s capability in transformation consulting and architecture‑led delivery.
- Contribute to internal thought leadership, enablement, and knowledge‑sharing across global ES teams.
Required Experience
- 10+ years guiding complex technology transformations across enterprises (cloud, network/security, workplace, data/AI, automation, platform modernisation).
- Proven experience shaping strategic transformation roadmaps, enterprise‑wide architectures, and multi‑phase programmes.
- Strong presales and consulting expertise — discovery, problem framing, value articulation, storytelling, positioning, and commercial shaping.
- Demonstrated ability to assure large, multi‑domain deliveries and maintain alignment to architectural intent and business outcomes.
- Experience leading governance, influencing senior executives, and managing risk across cross‑functional delivery teams.
Key Competencies
- Enterprise Architecture & Modernisation Patterns: cloud operating models, network transformation, zero trust, workplace re‑platforming, automation pipelines, data platforms.
- Consulting Craft: hypothesis‑driven framing, structured storytelling, facilitation, executive influencing.
- Transformation Governance: RAID, change control, benefits realisation, roadmap tracking, organisational readiness.
- Commercial Acumen: estimation, pricing, risk modelling, commercial guardrails, SOW clarity.
- Change & Adoption: capability uplift, service introduction, operating‑model change, workforce readiness.
- Leadership: guiding multidisciplinary teams, mentoring senior technologists, driving cross‑functional alignment.
Measures of Success
- Transformation proposals that result in strategic multi‑phase wins with strong executive sponsorship.
- Engagements delivered on time, on budget, and aligned to target‑state architectures and outcomes.
- Increased adoption of modernised capabilities and operating models within the customer organisation.
- Repeatable transformation assets and patterns adopted across ES&A.
- Observable uplift in architecture, delivery, and consulting capability across the team.
Equal opportunities:
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skill, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for all!