Principal Advisor

• 10+ years guiding complex technology transformations across enterprises (cloud, network/security, workplace, data/AI, automation, platform modernisation).
• Proven experience shaping strategic transformation roadmaps, enterprise‑wide architectures, and multi‑phase programmes.
• Strong presales and consulting expertise — discovery, problem framing, value articulation, storytelling, positioning, and commercial shaping.
• Demonstrated ability to assure large, multi‑domain deliveries and maintain alignment to architectural intent and business outcomes.
• Experience leading governance, influencing senior executives, and managing risk across cross‑functional delivery teams.

• Enterprise Architecture & Modernisation Patterns: cloud operating models, network transformation, zero trust, workplace re‑platforming, automation pipelines, data platforms.
• Consulting Craft: hypothesis‑driven framing, structured storytelling, facilitation, executive influencing.
• Transformation Governance: RAID, change control, benefits realisation, roadmap tracking, organisational readiness.
• Commercial Acumen: estimation, pricing, risk modelling, commercial guardrails, SOW clarity.
• Change & Adoption: capability uplift, service introduction, operating‑model change, workforce readiness.
• Leadership: guiding multidisciplinary teams, mentoring senior technologists, driving cross‑functional alignment.

• Transformation proposals that result in strategic multi‑phase wins with strong executive sponsorship.
• Engagements delivered on time, on budget, and aligned to target‑state architectures and outcomes.
• Increased adoption of modernised capabilities and operating models within the customer organisation.
• Repeatable transformation assets and patterns adopted across ES&A.
• Observable uplift in architecture, delivery, and consulting capability across the team.

• Travel up to 25–50% depending on engagement and customer needs.

Location: UK/EMEA/APAC (flexible/remote; customer travel as required)
Reporting To: ES&A Manager – EMEA/APAC

The Principal Advisor is a senior transformation leader within WWT Engineering Services. You will shape strategic technology‑led change for customers — from presales architecture visioning to delivery governance — ensuring that every engagement drives measurable, business‑aligned transformation outcomes.

You blend technology strategy, enterprise architecture, presales solutioning, delivery excellence, and organisational transformation. As a senior partner to Sales and Delivery, you ensure the solutions we propose are strategically grounded, technically sound, and executable in real‑world customer environments.

• Lead the development of modernisation strategies and technology transformation roadmaps across cloud, data, security, workplace, networking, automation, and platform domains.
• Connect business strategy to architectural direction — framing current‑state challenges and defining target‑state architectures, capabilities, operating models, and value realisation paths.
• Facilitate executive‑level discussions that simplify complex technology landscapes and drive alignment on transformation priorities.

• Own the transformation narrative in pursuit cycles, developing outcome‑focused proposals, architectural options, and multi‑phase execution plans.
• Translate problem statements into scalable, secure, cost‑effective architectures and implementation pathways that balance innovation with risk.
• Drive end‑to‑end presales solutioning across ES&A, Consulting, EA, Practices, and ATC — ensuring scope, stages, risks, governance, and success measures are defined from the outset.
• Engage confidently with C‑level and senior technical leaders to shape demand and align on strategic direction.

• Provide senior oversight throughout delivery to protect the architectural intent, transformation roadmap, and business‑outcome commitments.
• Operate the Two‑in‑the‑Box model with PMO to control scope, risks, dependencies, quality gates, and stakeholder communications.
• Lead or support transformation governance forums (steering committees, architectural boards) to ensure alignment, transparency, and executive confidence.
• Champion measurable value: operating‑model change, adoption, risk reduction, performance uplift, and transformation KPIs.

• Ensure technology transformation is matched by people, process, and organisational evolution, including role definition, capability uplift, training, and embedding new ways of working.
• Guide customers through the impacts of modernisation (e.g., cloud operating models, agile DevOps adoption, automation‑driven processes, zero‑trust uplift).
• Partner with delivery and consulting teams to ensure transformation outcomes are achieved and sustained beyond project completion.

• Lead or co‑lead development of new ES&A transformation offerings — patterns, methodologies, accelerators, reference architectures, value frameworks.
• Strengthen repeatable approaches for strategy‑to‑execution, discovery‑to‑roadmap, and presales‑to‑delivery continuity.
• Mentor architects, consultants, and engineers to raise the organisation’s capability in transformation consulting and architecture‑led delivery.
• Contribute to internal thought leadership, enablement, and knowledge‑sharing across global ES teams.