Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract (6–12 months)

Role Overview

A specialist financial institution is seeking an experienced Head: Digital Business Transitioning to lead and accelerate its journey toward becoming a digitally enabled, future-ready organisation.

This role is a strategic transformation mandate, focused on designing and driving enterprise-wide digital change rather than operational IT delivery. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive digital business strategy that integrates technology, people, processes and data to improve efficiency, competitiveness and customer experience.

The role is offered on a 6–12 month fixed-term contract.

Key Responsibilities Digital Strategy & Transformation Leadership

• Diagnose the organisation’s market position, business value chain and digital maturity.

• Develop a clear digital business vision, blueprint and future-state architecture.

• Translate strategy into a bold, structured and achievable implementation roadmap.

• Drive enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives aligned to business strategy.

Implementation & Delivery

• Define and sequence digital initiatives across front- and back-office environments.

• Develop digital business investment cases (quantitative and qualitative).

• Embed agile ways of working and modern delivery approaches.

• Track delivery of transformation milestones and measurable business outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement

• Engage extensively with executive and senior stakeholders across the organisation.

• Facilitate strategy, visioning and ideation workshops at Exco and Board level.

• Act as a change ambassador, shifting mindsets and driving adoption of digital solutions.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to enable innovation.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure governance, risk and compliance are embedded across digital programmes.

• Provide oversight for ethical and responsible use of emerging technologies.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory, cybersecurity and internal policy frameworks.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, or related field.

• Relevant international certifications (e.g. CISA or similar) will be advantageous.

Experience

• Extensive experience in digital strategy development and execution (15+ years overall).

• Proven track record delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

• Strong experience in crafting digital investment and business cases.

• Demonstrated application of agile methodologies within large organisations.

• Senior-level experience engaging C-suite stakeholders and Boards.

• Previous application development experience is critical.

• Experience in shifting organisational mindsets and enabling change.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• A strategic, commercially minded digital leader with strong execution capability.

• Comfortable operating in complex, regulated environments.

• Highly credible at executive level with exceptional facilitation and communication skills.

• Delivery-focused, decisive, and resilient.

• Able to operate independently with minimal supervision.

If you are a seasoned digital transformation leader seeking a high-impact, strategic role with national significance, we encourage you to apply.