Programme Director

Solihull, UK – Fixed Term Contract – Job

Programme Director

PRIMIS Mortgage Network are the largest Mortgage Network in the UK and form part of the LSL Property Services plc group. We are recruiting for a Programme Director for a 6-month contract.

Role

Purpose:

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The Programme Director will provide senior design leadership across a complex, multi-workstream transformation programme. They will be responsible for shaping and governing the end-to-end solution architecture across business and technology domains, ensuring that delivery teams work towards a coherent, secure, and supportable target state.

Working closely with programme leadership, Group Technology, suppliers, and business stakeholders, this role will bring clarity to complex delivery challenges, align architectural decisions with business outcomes, and help ensure successful programme delivery. The successful candidate will balance strategic thinking with pragmatic decision-making, providing clear direction while supporting delivery teams in navigating technical, operational, and organizational complexities.

Architecture Leadership and Direction:

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• Define and maintain the target and transitional architecture required to support programme objectives.
• Establish clear architectural principles, standards, and design approaches to promote consistency across work streams.
• Provide timely guidance and decision‑making to delivery teams, helping to resolve ambiguity and maintain delivery momentum.
• Facilitate design governance forums to ensure decisions are proportionate, evidence‑based, and aligned with programme objectives.
• Clarify system boundaries, responsibilities, and ownership across the programme landscape, supporting effective collaboration between teams and suppliers.

Solution Design, Integration, and Assurance

• Lead the development of an end-to-end solution architecture that aligns business outcomes with technology capabilities.
• Define integration approaches, interface standards, and data exchange principles in collaboration with Group Technology and delivery partners.
• Ensure solution designs adequately address security, privacy, resilience, recoverability, performance, scalability, accessibility, and operational support requirements.
• Work with data owners and specialists to establish data ownership, quality standards, governance, and retention requirements.
• Provide constructive assurance across internal teams and suppliers, helping to identify risks early and enabling successful implementation.

Programme Delivery and Recovery Support:

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• Partner with programme leadership to identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
• Help simplify complex technical issues and support informed decision‑making across business and technology stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into practical and deliverable end-to-end solutions that are achievable within programme constraints.
• Provide clear recommendations when timelines, budgets, technical constraints, or business priorities require informed trade‑off decisions.
• Support the programme throughout discovery, implementation, cutover, and service transition activities.

Technical Debt and Future Readiness:

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• Maintain visibility of technical debt, architectural compromises, and key dependencies across the programme.
• Support pragmatic decision‑making regarding short‑term delivery priorities while safeguarding long‑term sustainability and supportability.
  
  Recommend proportionate remediation, containment, or retirement plans where appropriate.
• Ensure programme decisions remain aligned with wider application, integration, and technology roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify architecture, reduce complexity, and improve…