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Head of Enterprise Technology Roadmap

The AA
London, GBR
Full-time
Director
Hybrid
Discovered 4 days ago

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Nice to Have

  • Experience operating within a regulated or operationally critical environment.
  • Relevant technology strategy, enterprise architecture, product, portfolio or transformation qualifications.
  • Relevant cloud or technology certifications.
  • Belonging at The AA
  • At The AA, we value the unique perspectives, experiences and ideas that our people bring. We've nurtured a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to do their best work.
  • Through our employee communities and inclusion initiatives, we’ve created opportunities for people to connect, share experiences and influence positive change across the business. This is a place where your voice matters and where you can belong, grow and succeed.
  • Driven by People, Rewarded by Benefits
  • We believe in rewarding our people. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package including;
  • 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, the option to buy additional holiday
  • Up to 7% employer pension contribution
  • Free AA breakdown membership from Day One with 50% discount for family and friends, discounts on AA products including car and home insurance
  • 24/7 GP access and wellbeing support for you and your family
  • A wide range of employee discounts, including our popular car salary sacrifice scheme
  • #LI-HH
  • #LI-Hybrid
  • Location: London (Hybrid working, 3 office days per week)
  • Employment Type: Permanent, Full Time
  • Why Join Us?
  • Annual bonus, cash car allowance and private medical insurance
  • Shape and embed The AA’s critical data governance operating model across a large, complex organisation
  • Build a meaningful Group wide capability with strong executive sponsorship and the opportunity to influence how data is governed from an early stage
  • Play a key role in ensuring trusted, high-quality data supports better decision making, customer outcomes and our growing Data and AI ambitions
  • For over a century, The AA has been keeping Britain moving. Today, millions of drivers trust us to be there when it matters most, and we're equally committed to supporting the people who make that possible. With a 4.5-star Glassdoor rating, we've built a culture where colleagues are empowered to grow, collaborate and make a real impact for our customers on every journey. Which has been recognised by Sunday Times “Best Places to Work” for the last two years.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in technology strategy, technology planning, enterprise architecture, engineering strategy or a comparable senior technology role within a large, complex organisation.
  • Proven experience developing and managing enterprise scale technology roadmaps spanning multiple platforms, products or organisational domains.
  • Strong experience translating technology strategy and target architecture into clear priorities, sequencing, investment choices and pragmatic delivery plans.
  • Broad enterprise technology knowledge spanning areas such as cloud, platforms, data, integration, cyber security, infrastructure and modern engineering practices, alongside an understanding of modernisation, lifecycle management and technical debt.
  • Strong commercial and strategic judgement, with experience connecting business strategy and investment priorities to longer term technology needs and evaluating complex dependencies and trade offs.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capability, with the credibility to operate across organisational boundaries and communicate complex technology choices clearly to senior technical and non technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the integrated enterprise technology roadmap, providing a clear short, medium and long term view of our journey towards the AA’s target technology state.
  • Translate technology strategy and target architecture into actionable priorities, bringing together plans across Value Streams, Platforms, Architecture, Engineering, Data and other technology capabilities.
  • Identify opportunities to maximise technology investment through modernisation, simplification, resilience, security, lifecycle management and the reduction of technical debt.
  • Provide enterprise visibility of strategic technology risks, dependencies and sequencing requirements, clearly articulating trade offs across value, cost, risk, pace and long term sustainability.
  • Establish measures for tracking roadmap outcomes, benefits and progress, providing clear, evidence based insight to support technology investment and prioritisation decisions.
  • Build strong relationships across technology and business leadership, influencing senior and executive stakeholders and connecting strategic technology direction with plans across the organisation.

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