Enterprise Application Transformation Lead

DXC Technology; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking a Senior Client Lead – Application Transformation to shape, sell, and deliver complex transformation engagements for enterprise clients. The role blends strategic consulting with hands‑on migration, modernization, and technical debt remediation.

You will engage CIOs, CTOs and business stakeholders to define transformation roadmaps, build compelling business cases, and lead multidisciplinary teams through delivery from discovery to transition.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience delivering large-scale technology transformation programmes.
• Proven experience leading enterprise application migration and modernization engagements.
• Hands-on experience with application assessment, migration planning, portfolio rationalisation, and cloud transformation.
• Strong understanding of technical debt identification, quantification, and remediation.
• Experience across legacy, cloud-native, hybrid, and distributed application environments.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing transformation business cases, roadmaps, and operating models.
• Strong understanding of programme governance, risk management, and delivery methodologies.
• Experience leading business change activities associated with technology transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive-level conversations with CIO, CTO, and technology leadership teams.
• Identify, qualify, and shape Application Transformation opportunities.
• Translate business challenges into pragmatic transformation strategies and delivery roadmaps.
• Conduct technology assessments, discovery workshops, and modernization reviews.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Develop business cases and transformation plans aligned to client objectives.
• Lead assessments of complex application portfolios and technology estates.
• Define and execute application modernization and migration strategies.
• Apply industry frameworks such as the 7Rs (Retain, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Relocate).
• Identify opportunities to simplify, rationalise, decommission, modernise, or migrate applications.
• Provide oversight of cloud migration, application refactoring, containerisation, and legacy modernisation initiatives.
• Shape transformation programmes from initial discovery through implementation and transition to BAU operations.
• Assess technical debt across applications, infrastructure, integrations, and operational services.
• Develop actionable remediation roadmaps balancing business value, risk reduction, cost, and delivery constraints.
• Identify obsolete technologies, unsupported platforms, architectural weaknesses, and operational bottlenecks.
• Advise clients on prioritisation and investment decisions to improve resilience, agility, and total cost of ownership.
• Facilitate technology governance and risk-based decision making across transformation programmes.
• Assess the impact of technology change on users, support teams, and operational processes.
• Ensure transformation initiatives include organisational readiness, communication, training, and adoption planning.
• Work closely with Change Managers, Business Analysts, and Operational Leaders to embed new ways of working.
• Consider support models, operating procedures, and service management implications when defining transformation approaches.
• Ensure technology decisions are aligned with business outcomes and end-user needs.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Delivery leadership

Strategic consulting

Change management

Communication skills

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking a Senior Client Lead – Application Transformation to shape, sell, and deliver complex transformation engagements for enterprise clients. The role blends strategic consulting with hands‑on migration, modernization, and technical debt remediation.

You will engage CIOs, CTOs and business stakeholders to define transformation roadmaps, build compelling business cases, and lead multidisciplinary teams through delivery from discovery to transition.