Transformation Strategy Lead

About the Position

Transformation Strategy Lead

DXC Technology is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, helping organizations modernize, secure, and operate complex technology environments. Our Insurance Software business sits at the heart of the global insurance industry. DXC is the No. 1 provider of core technology to the insurance industry, combining deep insurance expertise with software, services, and technology to help insurers modernize their operations, reduce complexity, and accelerate transformation.

This is an exciting time to join the business as we continue to focus on modernization, innovation, and transformation across the insurance market.

Responsibilities

As Transformation Strategy Lead, you’ll provide overall ownership and direction for four integrated transformation roadmaps, ensuring they remain aligned with business priorities and customer needs. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Own, develop, and maintain four integrated strategic roadmaps across the London Market business, providing a clear view of priorities, dependencies, outcomes, and planned change.
• Translate strategic business priorities into structured, achievable transformation activity with clearly defined outcomes and measures of success.
• Work closely with the customer to agree and prioritize roadmap activity, balancing strategic objectives, technology considerations, dependencies, and delivery requirements.
• Lead and coordinate a matrix team across architecture, change, PMO, and work-package leads, creating alignment across multiple areas of the transformation.
• Lead the Design Authority alongside Enterprise and Business Architects, ensuring proposed change is technically feasible and aligned with the wider architecture.
• Ensure key design and architecture decisions are captured effectively, creating a clear decision record to support future transformation activity.
• Own the intake and exit governance process, ensuring scope, assumptions, requirements, acceptance criteria, and measures of success are established at the beginning of each initiative and tested at completion.
• Ensure requirements are appropriately agreed and signed off before build activity begins.
• Assess proposed changes before commitments are made, ensuring the potential impact on agreed roadmaps, priorities, and delivery is understood.
• Maintain roadmap baselines under effective change control, working closely with the Change Control Manager to manage change in a controlled and transparent way.
• Ensure operational impacts are understood and agreed before changes progress to cutover.
• Connect roadmap initiatives to clear, measurable business outcomes and acceptance criteria, creating greater visibility of the value expected from each piece of work.
• Maintain a consistently high standard of outputs before they are shared with Velonetic or the ISB.
• Manage relationships across the customer and supplier environment, with clear ownership, expectations, and accountability.
• Establish and monitor agreed SLAs, ensuring performance and responsibilities are visible and understood.
• Track benefits against agreed baselines, including supplier contribution and contractual IP.
• Ensure strategic roadmaps are approved, published, and refreshed quarterly, giving stakeholders a clear and current view of transformation priorities and progress.

Requirements

• Experience within the London Market, banking, or a similarly complex and highly regulated environment.
• Strong experience working across complex transformation programs involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and interdependencies.
• Experience developing, owning, or managing strategic transformation roadmaps.
• The ability to translate business objectives and strategic priorities into clear, achievable transformation activity.
• A strong understanding of how business strategy, technology, architecture, and change come together to enable successful transformation.
• Experience working alongside Enterprise and Business Architecture teams and engaging constructively in design and architecture governance.
• Strong experience of governance, prioritization, change control, and decision-making within complex programs.
• Experience managing customer and supplier relationships with a clear understanding of ownership, accountability, and service expectations.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and dependencies while maintaining focus on the wider strategic outcome.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to consider both business value and delivery impact when assessing priorities and change.
• Excellent customer and stakeholder management skills.
• Clear and credible communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and create alignment across different levels and disciplines.
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach, balanced with the confidence to challenge constructively where needed to protect quality, outcomes, and strategic alignment.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture
• Professional development opportunities

About the Company

DXC Technology is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, helping organizations modernize, secure, and operate complex technology environments. Our work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.