- Location
- London, England, United Kingdom · published · Manchester, England, United Kingdom · Leeds, England, United Kingdom
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Lead
- Source
- Workable
Description
Codurance is hiring an Application Modernisation Principal into Client Solutions, reporting to the Client Solutions Director. You'll spend about 40% of your time shaping modernisation work before it's sold, and 60% delivering it. It's a senior, hands-on role with no line management. You'll be based in the UK, with travel to client sites as engagements need it.
We want someone who can design the target architecture for the modernisation of an aging application estate, then sit in front of a client CTO and explain how to get there without stopping the business, and what AI changes about the approach.
Why Codurance
We're a software craftsmanship consultancy, and we do the work properly. Here is what you'd get, and what you should know going in.
- Craftsmanship, not bodies in seats. We deliver through testing, pairing, and knowledge transfer. We coach and enable clients rather than supply resources.
- Real AI work. We have production AI deployments with clients, AI hyperscaler and cloud partnerships, and live AI and engineering service lines such as AI and Engineering Assessment and Codebase Intelligence.
- Influence. You'd help shape how we design, sell and deliver modernisation work rather than slot into a finished model, and you'd report to the person who built the Client Solutions function.
- Variety. A mix of pre-sales and delivery across different clients suits people who have outgrown a single product backlog.
- Straight talk on pace. The pipeline is busy and senior people are stretched across discovery and bids. Part of this hire is fixing that.
What you'll do
The target is roughly 40% pre-sales and solutioning and 60% billable delivery, measured over a quarter rather than a fixed week. Delivery is normally one engagement at a time.
Pre-sales and solutioning
- Own the modernisation architecture story in proposals and discovery: target architecture, migration approach and risk
- Join client calls and workshops, and explain technical approaches to non-technical buyers
- Help scope work, build estimates and defend them
- Shape repeatable modernisation offers, such as an assessment-to-roadmap package or a phased migration approach
Delivery
- Lead or work hands-on in live modernisation engagements: architecture, decomposition, incremental migration and re-platforming
- Advise clients on how AI tooling changes modernisation work, and say plainly where it doesn't help
- Set architecture and engineering standards and mentor engineers, without line management
- Pass knowledge to client teams as the work goes, so they can run it themselves