Technology Application Owner & Project Lead at Wavestone Management Advisory UK Ltd, London, 12 Months, £Contract Rate

Your tasks

• Lead UAT oversight, defect triage, integration testing for the Smart Building solution, and go/no-go readiness for both applications
• Take end-to-end technical ownership of the occupant-facing and Smart Building applications, including handover from delivery teams and governance distinct from business ownership and strategic enablement
• Lead go-live readiness, ELS cutover, stabilisation, and structured ELS exit, including defect burn-down, knowledge transfer, handover, validation, transition to stable BAU, and sign-off
• Own the technical roadmap, enhancement backlog, architecture, and future re-platforming or decommissioning across the application life cycle
• Guide Smart Building architecture and capability decisions across IoT, BMS, occupancy analytics, energy monitoring, and related integrations, including data-quality and integration validation
• Assess the feasibility of business requests, make technical trade-offs and design decisions, and provide informed prioritisation recommendations
• Manage technical debt proactively, maintain the debt register, and escalate material technical, investment, or cross-portfolio risks
• Prioritise reuse of existing platforms and capabilities, capitalise on existing enterprise investment, and avoid duplicate solutions or shadow IT
• Lead end-to-end technical project delivery for local and global real-estate initiatives involving either application, including scoping, planning, budgeting, resourcing, timelines, and feasibility validation
• Coordinate IT, Workplace Services, Real Estate, Facilities, vendors, and local teams throughout project delivery
• Design and lead change management across UAT, go-live, ELS-to-BAU transition, and project rollouts
• Act as a trusted and constructively challenging technical partner to Workplace Services while preserving business ownership of priorities and acceptance
• Escalate cross-portfolio, investment, and strategic decisions to the Head of Tech for Real Estate and support resolution when business and technology perspectives diverge
• Provide regular governance and reporting on delivery status, technical debt, risks, roadmap, and strategic alignment
• Co-manage vendor SLAs, performance, and contract renewals with Workplace Services
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture overviews, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials

Must have competences

• London-based and able to work on-site in Mayfair at least 2 days per week, with availability for closer to 5 days per week during the initial phase
• Available to start no later than the first week of October 2026 and commit to a 1-year Full time contractor engagement
• Proven experience as a Technology or Application Owner, including technical ownership of occupant-facing and Smart Building applications
• Experience taking applications through UAT, go-live, Early Life Support or hypercare, and into steady-state operation
• Strong technical understanding of Smart Building technologies, including IoT, Building Management Systems, occupancy analytics, and occupant-facing applications
• Proven ability to assess feasibility, make technical trade-offs, and constructively redirect business requests toward sound and sustainable solutions
• Track record of managing technical debt and capitalising on existing enterprise investment rather than defaulting to new development
• Delivery experience across multiple locations or regions, including coordination of global programmes
• A project-management qualification or strong practical project-management experience using PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, or Scrum
• Structured change-management experience using Prosci, ADKAR, or an equivalent approach
• Strong stakeholder-management experience across business stakeholders and senior technology leadership, supported by excellent communication skills

Nice to have competences

• Experience in corporate real estate, workplace technology, or facilities management environments
• Experience supporting multi-region real-estate portfolios
• Awareness of ISO 27001 and GDPR requirements
• Experience with enterprise architecture and application rationalisation
• Experience working in matrixed global organisations

Additional information
The role is London-based and requires on-site presence in Mayfair.