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Requirements
Must:
- Proven track record delivering large-scale cloud or infrastructure transformation programmes in complex, multi-supplier environments
- Strong background in service design, service transition, and operational readiness within enterprise IT
- Experience consolidating tooling, platforms, or hosting services and transitioning them to managed service providers
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure), modern hosting models, and associated tooling ecosystems
- Demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders
- Strong commercial awareness, including contracts and supplier management
Responsibilities
- Define and scope out all deliverables associated with the ongoing run and support of the services being delivered by the Cloud Transformation
- Define and implement the target support model for the Cloud Platform in a mixed in-sourced/out-sourced model
- Drive the design, development, and implementation of new and enhanced cloud services, ensuring they meet operational, security, and compliance requirements
- Manage a small team of contractors, overseeing service transition activities
- Manage the consolidation, rationalisation, and migration of tooling, platforms, and hosting services into supplier environments
- Coordinate multi-supplier delivery models
- Establish and maintain programme governance, reporting, RAID management, and financial oversight
- Engage senior stakeholders to ensure buy-in and resolve cross-functional issues
- Ensure service readiness, including operating model updates, process design, support models, SLAs/OLAs, and knowledge transfer
- Drive risk mitigation, dependency management, and proactive issue resolution
- Champion continuous improvement, embedding best practices in service design, transition, and cloud adoption
Description
We are seeking a Senior Service Design Lead / Senior Service Architect to join our enterprise-scale business in Central London during a time of real transformation and modernization. This hybrid role will require you to work onsite 2-3 days per week, with an initial contract duration of 12 months inside IR35. As part of a major Cloud Transformation programme, you will lead a small team of contractors and play a pivotal role in defining and executing our Service & Support workstream. We offer a dynamic work environment with competitive rates in the region of £700-900 per day.
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