The Cloud Modernisation Program Director is a senior executive role responsible for leading TAL’s enterprise-wide transformation from legacy systems to a modern, cloud-based Microsoft ecosystem. With a strong focus on large-scale application migration, the role ensures the structured and risk-managed transition of critical business systems while maintaining operational stability and regulatory compliance. This includes driving the prioritisation and sequencing of migration waves, managing key dependencies, and delivering measurable outcomes across multiple application portfolios.Operating at the executive level, the Program Director provides strategic oversight, governance, and performance reporting across a complex, multi-stream program spanning application migration, data platform uplift, and AI enablement. The role partners closely with Executive Leadership and strategic vendors, including Microsoft, to drive alignment between business objectives, investment decisions, and delivery outcomes. Central to success is the ability to engage senior stakeholders, ensure transparency and accountability, and accelerate cloud adoption—ultimately enabling TAL to operate as a modern, data-driven, and AI-enabled enterprise.In this role you will:Lead the end-to-end application migration strategy and execution, including portfolio assessment, migration wave planning and execution governanceEstablish and lead executive governance forums, including SteerCo, ensuring clear visibility of progress, risks and decisions requiredProvide end-to-end oversight of application migration risks, including operational, regulatory and customer impactsLead executive engagement with Microsoft and key delivery partners, ensuring alignment to migration strategy and outcomesEnsure application migration is fully integrated with target cloud architecture, platform engineering and data strategyOversee business readiness and adoption for migrated applications, ensuring continuity and value realisation
