Head of Product & Technical Consultancy

Sopra Steria; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software consultancy in the UK is seeking a Head of Product & Technical Consultancy to lead a high-performing team. Key responsibilities include overseeing product design, engaging with stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Ideal candidates will have a proven leadership background in consultancy roles, strong understanding of enterprise solutions, and the ability to influence senior leadership. This role is pivotal in ensuring successful delivery and adoption of consulting outputs.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in Product Consultancy or Technical Consultancy.
• Strong understanding of integrations, APIs, and data migration.
• Track record of leading complex client implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing Product & Technical Consultancy team.
• Responsible for consultancy approach across all client engagements.
• Implement repeatable consulting assets and templates.

Skills

Leadership in Product Consultancy

Understanding of enterprise solution delivery

Stakeholder management

Influencing senior leadership

Experience in regulated industries

Job description

74Software is home for leading brands (Axway, SBS Software) with mission‑critical enterprise applications and infrastructure software serving a growing range of markets and geographies – each with their own identities and value propositions.

SBS Software helps financial institutions navigate challenging and changing times. With our technology and strong commitment to being a trusted partner, we build software products for banks and enterprises. Now part of 74Software, a major global software player, SBS brings decades of expertise to the finance industry, supporting banks and financial institutions on their digital transformation journey.

SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large‑scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance.

With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia’s Universe: Digital Banking Platforms. SBS is headquartered in Paris, France.

Axway is a global software company specializing in API management, MFT, and B2B integration. Trusted by thousands of enterprises worldwide, Axway delivers proven solutions that enable secure, scalable, and reliable AI‑ready ecosystems.

Job Description

Role Purpose

The Head of Product & Technical Consultancy leads a specialist team that bridges product capability, technology, and client needs. Shaping scalable solutions, guiding complex design decisions, and ensuring consultancy outputs accelerate successful delivery and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, coach, and develop a high‑performing Product & Technical Consultancy function.
• Set clear priorities, ways of working, quality standards, and performance expectations.
• Build capability across product knowledge, architecture, integration patterns, and delivery methods.

Product & Technical Advisory

• Responsible for the consultancy approach for product and technical design across all client engagements.
• Provide technical governance and oversight across solution design, integration, configuration, and customisation.
• Translate business requirements into product‑led, technically feasible designs and roadmaps.
• Ensure designs align to platform strategy, baseline configuration, and long‑term maintainability.

Stakeholder & Client Engagement

• Act as a senior client‑facing leader, supporting technical credibility, influencing decisions, and de‑risking delivery.
• Partner with Business Consulting, PS Delivery, QA/Testing, Support/Service, Engineering, and Product Management.
• Support commercial efforts where needed (RFPs, bids, shaping, scoping, estimates).

Standards, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Implement repeatable consulting assets, templates, patterns, accelerators, and reusable approaches.
• Drive continuous improvement based on delivery outcomes, defects, and client feedback.
• Ensure adherence to governance, documentation discipline, and technical best practice.

Success Measures (KPIs)

• Reduced delivery risk and improved quality through stronger design assurance.
• Increased baseline adoption / reduced unnecessary customisation.
• Improved client satisfaction for design and technical decision making.
• Stronger cross‑team alignment between Product, Engineering, and PS Delivery.
• Improved team capability and utilisation.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in Product Consultancy / Technical Consultancy / Solutions Architecture within a software organisation.
• Strong understanding of enterprise solution delivery including integrations, APIs, data migration, environments, and release processes.
• Track record of leading discovery and design phases for complex client implementations.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior internal and client leadership.
• Comfortable operating across strategy and detail, able to dive deep when needed.
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services).
• Familiarity with core banking / lending / savings platforms (where relevant).
• Experience shaping consulting “packages” or repeatable propositions.

Personal Attributes

• Commercially aware, outcome‑driven, and pragmatic.
• Clear communicator who can simplify complexity and lead decisions.
• High standards, structured thinker, strong accountability.
• Collaborative leader who builds trust and capability.

Additional Information

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.

All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.