​Engineering Transformation Lead - Interim to Perm - Immediate Start

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Location:Flexible / Hybrid

Reporting to:CTO / Chief Digital Officer / Transformation Director

Competitive Market Rate on offer

Paritas is working with a leading Advisory client who are undertaking a large internal transformation project.

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We are seeking an experienced Engineering Transformation Lead to drive a large-scale digital and engineering transformation across the organisation. This role will play a critical part in scaling our engineering capability from a predominantly internal development model to a hybrid internal and third-party delivery model, while maintaining engineering quality, governance, and pace.

You will be accountable for shaping the target operating model, leading vendor delivery at scale, and ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across the full engineering lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Digital Transformation

• Lead large-scale engineering and digital transformation initiatives within complex, enterprise environments

• Design and implement a scalable hybrid delivery model, balancing internal engineering capability with strategic third-party partners

• Define engineering operating models, delivery standards, and governance frameworks to support growth and transformation

Third-Party & Vendor Leadership

• Operationally lead multiple third-party vendors across the end-to-end engineering lifecycle (design, build, test, implementation)

• Act as the single point of accountability for third-party engineering delivery, performance, and outcomes

• Establish clear delivery expectations, KPIs, commercial guardrails, and quality controls for external partners

Delivery & Execution

• Oversee engineering delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives, timelines, and budgets

• Drive consistency in engineering practices, tooling, and ways of working across internal and external teams

• Identify delivery risks early and implement mitigation strategies to protect outcomes

Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with senior technology, product, and business leaders to align engineering delivery with business priorities

• Provide clear, transparent reporting on delivery progress, risks, and dependencies

• Influence and challenge stakeholders to adopt modern engineering practices and delivery approaches

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Experience & Capabilities

Essential

• Proven experience leading large-scale engineering and digital transformations within complex organisations

• Demonstrated success scaling organisations from internal development capability to a hybrid internal / third-party delivery model

• Strong experience leading third-party vendors across the full engineering lifecycle (design, testing, implementation)

• Hands-on experience operationally managing vendor delivery, not just governance or oversight

• Deep understanding of modern engineering delivery models (Agile, DevOps, product-led delivery, etc.)

Desirable

• Background in consulting, systems integration, or large enterprise transformation programmes

• Experience working across regulated or asset-heavy industries (e.g. energy, utilities, infrastructure, financial services)

• Strong commercial awareness in managing vendor contracts and delivery economics
  

Key Attributes

• Credible senior leader able to operate at both strategic and operational levels

• Strong delivery focus with the ability to “roll up sleeves” when required

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving transformation environments

• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence at executive level