Head of Modernisation

Position: Head of Application Modernisation
Job Description

Head of Application Modernisation

Location:

Birmingham (Hybrid)
Type:
Permanent | Senior Leadership
Salary:
Competitive + Benefits

Role Purpose
We are creating a senior leadership role — Head of Application Modernisation — to expand and mature our modernisation capability, drive strategic sales, and ensure excellence in delivery. This role is pivotal to TXP’s growth strategy and organisational vision.

The Head of Application Modernisation will lead TXP’s end-to-end modernisation proposition, acting as the senior champion for the practice across sales, solutioning, delivery, capability, and partnerships. You will work closely with Sales, Sector Leads, and Delivery teams to shape and position modernisation solutions that address complex business and technology challenges, particularly within the Financial Services and Public Sectors.

You will be responsible for growing revenue, shaping client solutions, leading strategic engagements, and ensuring the successful delivery of modernisation programmes across our client base. A core part of the role is embedding world-class delivery practices, driving market differentiation, and championing the intelligent use of AI across the practice.

This role blends thought leadership, commercial ownership, and delivery accountability — ideal for a leader who thrives on empowering teams, driving innovation, and making a measurable impact across the organisation.

You will be instrumental in driving TXP’s mission forward, embodying our core values of CARES.

• Client Focus:
Champion a client-centric culture, ensuring that every engagement delivers meaningful, measurable outcomes that advance the client’s strategic goals.

• Adaptability:
Lead the practice through change, shaping and evolving modernisation approaches in response to market trends, emerging technologies, and client needs.

• Responsibility:
Take full ownership of the modernisation practice—its strategy, performance, risk management, and delivery outcomes—while building a culture of accountability.

• Excellence:
Set and uphold the highest standards across solution design, delivery quality, thought leadership, and team capability, driving continuous improvement and innovation.

• Success:
Define success through sustained client trust, high-impact outcomes, repeat business, and long-term value creation for clients and TXP.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Practice Leadership

• Define and lead TXP’s Application Modernisation strategy, including propositions, service offerings, and market differentiation.

• Shape and execute the go-to-market strategy for modernisation, with a particular focus on the Financial Services and Public Sector markets.

• Develop and continually refine value propositions that reflect emerging technologies, client needs, and industry trends.

• Build a scalable, high-performing modernisation practice spanning architecture, engineering, Dev Ops, testing, and low-code.

Sales, Solutioning & Commercial Ownership

• Act as the senior solution leader for all application modernisation opportunities—leading discovery, shaping solutions, and ensuring proposals align with client outcomes.

• Partner with Sales and Sector Leads to drive pipeline growth, jointly develop propositions, and close strategic deals.

• Serve as executive sponsor for key modernisation engagements, providing commercial oversight and risk management.

• Represent the practice in client-facing pitches, executive briefings, and bid presentations.

Delivery Assurance & Client Success

• Hold ultimate accountability for delivery quality, outcomes, and client satisfaction across all modernisation programmes.

• Provide governance and assurance across delivery teams (led day-to-day by Head of Development / Delivery Managers).

• Ensure consistent use of best-practice methodologies including cloud-native architectures, re-platforming, re-architecture, Dev Ops and Agile.

• Establish frameworks, accelerators, and delivery models that create repeatable, scalable success.

AI Leadership & Innovation

• Champion AI-driven modernisation approaches, embedding intelligent automation into assessment, engineering, Dev Ops, and testing processes.

• Evaluate and…