Job Description

Lawrence Harvey are working with a leading company that is launching a large-scale IT initiative in 2026 to redefine its IT architecture and landscape, accelerating its transition to a more digitally enabled organisation.
As part of this programme, they are seeking a Senior IT Transformation Lead to provide leadership across IT architecture and projects. The role will focus on a comprehensive review of the current IT landscape and the definition of a future-state IT strategy for 2026, spanning both architecture and project delivery.
This is an Outside IR35 position with a flexible rate depending on experience for an initial 6 months, with an extremely likely chance of extension and the aim to start in February.
This is a hybrid position with weekly travel 2-3 days per week to Central London, near Bank.
Requirements:

• Proven enterprise architecture and IT governance experience, including operating in federated or multi-division environments and supporting large-scale IT transformation.
• Strong project and delivery governance capability, with hands-on experience across waterfall, agile, hybrid and DevOps, and a clear understanding of what good delivery looks like in practice.
• Broad technical and architectural literacy across applications, data, integration and infrastructure, including cloud, SaaS/COTS, custom solutions and modern integration patterns (APIs, iPaaS, event-driven).
• Ability to assess and guide architectural change, simplifying fragmented landscapes, modernising platforms, and ensuring solutions meet standards for security, scalability, resilience and lifecycle management.
• Strategic yet pragmatic leadership capability, translating business and IT strategy into clear architectural principles, guardrails, governance frameworks and actionable plans without needing to design solutions personally.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, able to communicate fluently between business and technical teams, with C-Suite management experience essential

If interested and available to start a new contract assignment in February, please apply with your latest CV.

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