Director of Platform

Over the last few years, Xantura has grown significantly. We now support a growing number of local authorities across multiple people based service areas -and are increasingly working alongside Newton on larger transformation programmes. As the business has grown, so has the number of opportunities, ideas and demands being placed on the platform.

Requirements

emerge through delivery. Newton programmes identify opportunities that could become reusable capabilities. Local Government Reorganisation, devolution, Advances in artificial intelligence All of these drivers are creating new possibilities for how public services operate and how technology can support them.

At the same time, not every opportunity could / should become a platform capability and not every customer requirement should shape the roadmap. The Platform Director role will help Newton and Xantura navigate these choices. Working closely with the CEO, CTO, COO and Newton colleagues, the Platform Director will help ensure that OneView evolves in a deliberate and commercially sustainable way.

They will identify where the market is moving, determine which opportunities are strategically important and help translate those opportunities into platform capabilities, propositions and investment decisions. The role sits between market insight and platform delivery. It provides a structured mechanism for converting customer needs, programme learning, technology developments and strategic priorities into a coherent platform direction.

The role is accountable for platform strategy, proposition direction, capability prioritisation and platform investment recommendations. Delivery execution, engineering management, technical architecture, platform operations and platform support remain the responsibility of the CTO and Platform Delivery teams. The Platform Director will also lead a small prototyping and exploratory development team responsible for testing new concepts before larger platform investment decisions are made.

Success in this role will be measured by the quality of the decisions made, the opportunities identified and the extent to which platform evolution remains aligned with the future needs of customers and the business.

Develop and maintain platform capability maps Identify capability gaps and future capability

Help determine what capabilities should become part of the platform and what should remain client-specific solutions Support decisions regarding platform standardisation, reuse and long-term platform consistency Assess platform maturity and identify areas requiring future investment Chair platform roadmap review and prioritisation activities Balance short-term client

with long-term platform objectives Help define what OneView should become over the next three to five years Market insight, proposition development and platform evolution Maintain a strong understanding of local government, health and wider public sector priorities Monitor developments in Local Government Reorganisation, devolution, prevention, service reform and emerging policy agendas Assess the implications of artificial intelligence, automation and other technology developments for clients and the platform Identify emerging market opportunities and communicate their implications across the business Build relationships across the public sector, technology community and partner ecosys