What You’ll Be Doing
Strategic Influence
- Develop and shape technology strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Assess the current technology landscape to identify gaps, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Define recommendations for the organisation’s future-state technology environment.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their relevance, potential value and business impact.
Application Portfolio & Rationalisation
- Conduct application portfolio assessments across a complex enterprise technology environment.
- Evaluate applications based on business value, technical health, cost, risk, redundancy and strategic alignment.
- Recommend where the organisation should invest, modernise, consolidate or retire applications.
- Assess dependencies and implications across applications, platforms and business functions.
Strategic Advisory & Decision-Making
- Translate complex technology findings into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.
- Present strategic proposals and recommendations to C-level executives, senior technology leaders and business stakeholders.
- Build compelling business and technology cases to influence strategic decision-making.
- Work across technology and business functions to build alignment around strategic priorities.
Market & Technology Research
- Conduct market and technology research to identify industry trends, emerging technologies and potential opportunities.
- Benchmark the organisation’s technology capabilities against market developments and industry practices.
- Provide insights and recommendations to support long-term technology planning and investment decisions.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience in Technology Strategy, IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture or Digital Transformation.
- Proven experience developing technology strategies, technology roadmaps or future-state architectures.
- Experience in application portfolio assessment and/or application rationalisation.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex technology landscapes.
- Ability to evaluate technology from both business and technical perspectives.
- Strong executive communication, presentation and storytelling skills.
- Comfortable presenting recommendations and influencing senior technology and business stakeholders.
- Experience in market research, technology assessment, benchmarking or emerging technology evaluation.
- Experience within Banking / Financial Services (BFSI) is an advantage.