Job Summary
We are seeking a Principal Leader to help oversee and enable a large-scale technology modernisation initiative for one of our clients. The role will act as a bridge between business strategy, product requirements, and technical delivery, ensuring alignment across multiple product lines and major platform transformation workstreams.
Key responsibilities
Programme & Solution Enablement
- Oversee the coordination of four major modernisation workstreams.
- Build and maintain the strategic programme roadmap in partnership with product and technology leads.
- Facilitate Domain-Driven Design workshops and solution alignment sessions with product, engineering, and architecture teams.
Business & Technology Alignment
- Partner with product leaders from across all platforms to align feature roadmaps, ensuring a common platform vision and measurable business value.
- Translate technical dependencies (microservices, Unity/WebView, API contracts, Pub/Sub messaging, etc.) into business impacts and clear decision points.
- Ensure new services and client capabilities are designed with long-term reuse, scalability, and resilience in mind.
Delivery Oversight
- Ensure dependencies between backend and frontend services and teams are identified, tracked, and resolved.
- Work with engineering leads to identify risks from documentation gaps, technical debt, and hidden dependencies, and propose mitigation plans.
- Promote best practices in CI/CD, GitOps pipelines, and microservices lifecycle management.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven track record in digital transformation or platform modernisation programmes.
- Strong background in enterprise/solution architecture with understanding of microservices and cloud-native patterns.
- Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, able to balance business priorities with technical constraints.
- Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, event storming, and product domain mapping.
- Deep understanding of software development operating models and cross-functional product/engineering organisation design.
- Consulting or advisory experience in complex multi-vendor, multi-product environments
Preferred
- Background in gaming / social casino / large-scale consumer applications.
- Familiarity with Unity and Webview architecture.
- Experience with GCP (Pub/Sub, autoscaling, observability) or equivalent cloud environments.
- Strong working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and platform enablement practices.
Location
London: 2-3 days in office near Heathrow.
Some of the benefits you'll enjoy working with us
- A highly competitive compensation package.
- Medical insurance.
- The chance to join an organisation with triple-digit growth that is changing the paradigm on how software products are built.
- The opportunity to form part of an amazing, multicultural community of tech experts.
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What We Do
At Parser we help organisations leverage on digital to advance their business strategy.
For us, creativity, talent, and passion are indispensable to succeed. This is why we are committed to building, nurturing, and empowering a diverse, multi-disciplinary environment, where every team member can grow professionally and achieve their ambitions, while helping our clients deliver amazing digital products.
Thanks to our flexible, distributed model of global operation and the high calibre of our experts, we have enjoyed triple digit growth over the past five years, creating amazing career opportunities for our people across 4 continents.
Our services:
- Digital Strategy & Transformation
We help you understand market trends, relevant technologies, and aligned with your business strategy we create your vision and set the digital direction. This enables you to focus efforts and integrate business and technology across your organisation.
- Digital Portfolio Management
Based on a clear vision and direction, we help you assess your position, execute your digital strategy and manage your portfolio. We do this by integrating a range of diverse business and technical practises, transforming your organisation in the process.
- Product & Service Development
We help you create new experiences by designing user journeys that bridge all of the relevant departments of your organisation. By harnessing our ecosystem of specialised talent, we can provide relevant and focused expertise on demand.
