Principal Modernisation Strategist

About the role

Thoughtworks Singapore is looking for a Principal Modernisation Strategist to act as a trusted partner to its clients, helping shape the future of legacy modernisation through a focus on business outcomes delivered through technology excellence. The role develops and leads large-scale transformation and modernisation strategies within the Enterprise Modernisation, Platform and Cloud service line, and Thoughtworks prioritises applicants currently residing in Singapore.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with business verticals to identify modernisation opportunities aligned with industry best practices and emerging technologies
• Take part in pre-sales, lead generation, proposal creation and shaping engagements, educating clients and colleagues on the value and commercial success of the services
• Advise C-level executives and stakeholders in a consultative way, acting as a trusted advisor to help them achieve their business goals
• Create points of view and solutioning content, define progressive and repeatable practices, and drive industry-leading IP and best practices for modernising legacy retail banking systems
• Nurture and upskill future thought leaders at Thoughtworks
• Partner with technical leaders so the delivery team has what it needs to execute engagements
• Stay current with Thoughtworks' business strategy and technology goals, and meet billing targets by being fully or fractionally staffed on client engagements

Required profile

• Experience executing modernisation and migration in large-scale organisations
• Strong client-facing skills, able to position and defend a technical position to a room of skilled client architects
• Demonstrable experience engaging C-level stakeholders with a consultative selling approach
• Attention to detail, a practical approach to story-writing and delivery, and the ability to link client strategy to team outcomes
• Well versed in Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery, SRE practices and the DevOps philosophy

Required skills

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Kafka, Istio and PostgreSQL; Python is a bonus
• Knowledge of MACH and LIFESPAR architecture principles and cloud-native microservices and serverless architectures
• Understanding of consistency models, high availability, disaster recovery and multi-AZ, multi-region and multi-cloud deployments
• Security and system performance management built into solutions from the start