IT Transformation Consultant

Role Description

To establish and lead the enterprise IT Quality Assurance and Technology Delivery function, ensuring the secure, reliable, and timely delivery of technology solutions through effective quality engineering, governance, DevOps practices, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder collaboration, while driving continuous improvement and operational excellence across the technology landscape.

Duties and Responsibilities:

IT Quality Assurance Strategy

• Define and implement enterprise-wide QA and testing strategies aligned with IT and business goals.

• Establish quality governance frameworks, standards, and testing methodologies.

• Lead functional, integration, system, regression, performance, security, and user acceptance testing activities.

• Drive quality engineering practices and shift-left testing approaches.

• Ensure compliance with security, audit, regulatory, and IT governance requirements.

• Log and analyze front end CM experience impacting issues.

Technology Delivery Leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery of IT projects, software products, system implementations, and digital transformation initiatives.

• Oversee IT project execution from requirements gathering through deployment and post-production support.

• Manage release planning, deployment schedules, and production readiness reviews.

Agile & DevOps Excellence

• Drive automation across development and testing processes.

• Improve release frequency while maintaining system stability and quality.

• Collaborate with infrastructure to streamline deployment pipelines.

• Establish DevOps metrics and performance monitoring frameworks.

• Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Develop and execute enterprise test automation strategies.

Increase automated test coverage across web, mobile, APIs, and enterprise applications.

• Implement modern testing tools and frameworks.

• Drive performance testing, load testing, and security testing initiatives.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Establish IT delivery governance and quality assurance controls.

• Manage delivery risks, technical debt, and quality-related issues.

• Ensure compliance with IT policies, cybersecurity standards, and regulatory requirements.

• Conduct quality audits and delivery reviews.

• Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.

• incident notification requirements introduction

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Serve as the primary escalation point for delivery and quality-related concerns.

• Communicate delivery status, quality metrics, risks, and recommendations to executive leadership.

• Collaborate with business units to align technology delivery with strategic priorities.

• Ensure third-party solutions meet organizational quality standards.

• Establish and lead a technology vendor risk management framework.

Regulatory & Compliance Alignment

• Ensure QA and IT deliveries comply with SAMA regulations

• Set traceable sign off framework before production, to ensure monitoring effective roll out of services and communication of SAMA requirements.

• Oversee readiness for regulatory inspections, reviews, and reporting related to IT.

• Assess IT governance readiness and create a robust framework

Minimum Qualification:

Years of Experience:

Minimum 8 – 12 years of relevant experience

Certifications:

Enterprise Architecture – preferably certified in TOGAF and/or COBIT. [Highly required] · 15+ years experience.

Saudi National is not a requirement.

Project Management is not a necessity; but preferred.