Director of Platform

Over the last few years, Xantura has grown significantly. We now support a growing number of local authorities across multiple people based service areas
-and are increasingly working alongside Newton on larger transformation programmes.

As the business has grown, so has the number of opportunities, ideas and demands being placed on the platform. Evolving prevention maturity of clients.

• New client requirements emerge through delivery.
• Newton programmes identify opportunities that could become reusable capabilities.
• Local Government Reorganisation, devolution,
• Advances in artificial intelligence

All of these drivers are creating new possibilities for how public services operate and how technology can support them.

At the same time, not every opportunity could / should become a platform capability and not every customer requirement should shape the roadmap.

The Platform Director role will help Newton and Xantura navigate these choices.

Working closely with the CEO, CTO, COO and Newton colleagues, the Platform Director will help ensure that One View evolves in a deliberate and commercially sustainable way. They will identify where the market is moving, determine which opportunities are strategically important and help translate those opportunities into platform capabilities, propositions and investment decisions.

The role sits between market insight and platform delivery. It provides a structured mechanism for converting customer needs, programme learning, technology developments and strategic priorities into a coherent platform direction.

The role is accountable for platform strategy, proposition direction, capability prioritisation and platform investment recommendations.

Delivery execution, engineering management, technical architecture, platform operations and platform support remain the responsibility of the CTO and Platform Delivery teams.

The Platform Director will also lead a small prototyping and exploratory development team responsible for testing new concepts before larger platform investment decisions are made.

Success in this role will be measured by the quality of the decisions made, the opportunities identified and the extent to which platform evolution remains aligned with the future needs of customers and the business.

A key measure of success will be the ability to convert successful client innovations and transformation learning into repeatable platform capabilities that can be adopted across multiple organisations