Applications Transformation Advisor

Application Transformation Advisor Business area: UKI Advisory X – Application Transformation Location: UK-based / remote with travel as required. IDEALLY LONDON OFFICE BASED. Security: Ability to support secure or regulated client environments, subject to project-specific eligibility requirements. Requires a sole UK national who hold or will undergo security clearance. Role overview We are seeking an experienced Application Transformation Lead / Senior Application Modernisation Advisor to help scale our Apps Transformation capability and improve our ability to convert client demand into revenue. These are senior client-facing advisory roles focused on shaping, leading and mobilising enterprise application transformation and modernisation opportunities. The successful candidates will work with senior client stakeholders, enterprise architects, sales teams and delivery specialists to articulate the client problem, shape the transformation opportunity, define credible solution approaches and support the early-stage analysis and mobilisation of engagements. The role requires strong consulting presence, technical credibility and commercial awareness. The focus is on providing the senior advisory capability needed to run multiple client conversations in parallel, support proposal and solution shaping, and help convert pipeline opportunities into deliverable transformation engagements. Core purpose of the role The successful candidates will: Lead and shape client conversations around application transformation and modernisation. Translate client business and technology challenges into clear transformation opportunities. Support opportunity qualification, solution shaping and proposal development. Provide credible advisory input across application rationalisation, migration, replatforming, modernisation and operating model considerations. Work with sales, presales, architecture and delivery teams to turn demand into structured, deliverable engagements. Support early-stage discovery, analysis, transformation planning and engagement mobilisation. Help build scalable capability by creating reusable approaches, templates and advisory assets.

Client advisory and opportunity shaping Engage directly with senior client technology and business stakeholders to understand their application estate challenges and transformation objectives. Shape clear, value-led application transformation narratives that clients can understand and act on. Facilitate workshops and discovery discussions to identify opportunities, risks, constraints and transformation priorities. Support senior governance and client decision-making through concise recommendations, options analysis and briefing materials. Application transformation solutioning Assess application portfolios and advise on appropriate transformation pathways, including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire and retain. Identify dependencies across applications, infrastructure, hosting, security, integration, testing and operations. Shape pragmatic transformation roadmaps, migration approaches and mobilisation plans. Ensure solution recommendations are commercially realistic, technically credible and aligned to client outcomes. Presales and revenue conversion Support sales and account teams in converting pipeline into structured application transformation engagements. Contribute to proposals, estimates, assumptions, staffing models and delivery approaches. Help define the resource profile required to deliver against specific pipeline opportunities. Link capability requirements to revenue opportunity, forecast risk and delivery feasibility. Delivery mobilisation and governance Provide senior advisory input into the first phase of engagements, including discovery, analysis, planning and mobilisation. Work with enterprise architects, platform specialists, core systems SMEs, testing advisors and delivery teams to ensure transformation plans are viable. Support