Head of Transformation

Manpower
Malta, MT, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Systems Development Life Cycle Systems Architecture Legacy Systems

Job description

The Head of Transformation turns IT strategy into real, working outcomes. You sit between Architecture, Demand, and Delivery, making sure ideas are practical, buildable, well-defined, and delivered efficiently.

Your focus is to modernise legacy systems, simplify the technology landscape, improve how work flows into development, and remove friction across teams.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

Bridge Strategy to Delivery

  • Turn architecture designs into clear, build-ready plans
  • Ensure solutions are supportable by L2 before go-live
  • Lead modernisation of legacy applications while keeping services running

Improve How We Deliver

  • Own and improve the SDLC and release processes
  • Remove bottlenecks between Dev, Infra, and Support
  • Introduce automation to speed up testing and releases

Improve Demand Quality

  • Ensure requirements are clear, feasible, and testable before development
  • Define quality gates (e.g. Definition of Ready / Done)
  • Reduce rework, defects, and late surprises

Cross-Team Coordination

  • Lead technical handovers from Analysis to Development
  • Ensure environments (Dev, UAT, Prod) support delivery needs

Simplify Technology

  • Identify systems and tools to retain, retire, replace, or re-platform
  • Lead consolidation and migration initiatives
  • Reduce cost, complexity, and operational risk

Quality & Performance

  • Track delivery health (speed, defects, releases)
  • Step in when trends slip and fix the root cause

Requirements

Do you have experience in System architecture?, * A seasoned IT professional with experience across analysis, development, or delivery

  • Strong background in application modernisation and re-architecture
  • Deep understanding of SDLCs, architecture, and operating models
  • Experience improving upstream quality (requirements, testing readiness)
  • Confident influencer who gets things done without relying on hierarchy

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