Global Head of Digital Delivery

Overview

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• Drive the design and execution of the global digital delivery operating model.
• Facilitate the network-wide AI and emerging technology governance framework, connecting multidisciplinary task forces and ensuring coherence across firms and service lines.
• Ensure Technology governance frameworks function effectively, including executive reporting, KPI dashboards, and risk/issue escalation.
• Ensure adherence to international and BDO‑specific standards for digital and AI governance including security, responsible AI, sustainability, privacy and ethics.
• Contribute to the global digital and AI strategy, including service line–specific digital transformation roadmaps and priorities.
• Translate enterprise level global digital strategy into actionable, technically sound roadmaps across service lines and priority programmes.
• Oversee global portfolio prioritisation, including build/buy/partner decisions, investment cases, and lifecycle management.

• Lead the technical delivery of the global digital and AI strategy, including service line– specific digital transformation roadmaps and priorities.
• Oversee end‑to‑end engineering and platform delivery to ensure secure, scalable, high availability solutions aligned to enterprise architecture and quality standards.
• Implement modern delivery approaches—agile, Dev Ops, CI/CD, platform development—to accelerate time‑to‑value for digital solutions.
• Enable AI adoption across strategic initiatives, embedding responsible AI controls and ensuring compliance with emerging frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001).
• Promote AI literacy and digital competence across the enterprise.
• Support Global service areas and key firms in developing and scaling use cases in AI and emerging tech, acting as a trusted advisor on adoption pathways, responsible AI, emerging technology, and change management.
• Lead senior technical leaders, providing vision, coaching, performance direction and succession planning.
• Promote a culture of innovation and experimentation, aligned to CPO‑style product discovery and continuous learning.
• Foster talent development, digital dexterity, and employee enablement across the Technology function.

• Act as a senior advisor to business digital leaders, translating strategic objectives into executable delivery plans.
• Build strong relationships with back‑office functions (HR, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Security) and service line leaders.
• Represent Technology at global steering committees, ensuring executive visibility of programme health and value realisation.
• Influence, promote and champion digital and AI best practice across Stakeholder groups.
• Lead Technology’s investment planning for digital and AI platforms, ensuring alignment with global budget frameworks.
• Oversee vendor delivery governance and performance, strategic partnerships, and contract management, ensuring value extraction and capability enhancement.
• Ensure benefits realisation by embedding KPI‑driven value measurement that links digital delivery to business outcomes, ROI, and transformation impact.

• Ensure digital platforms and AI solutions align with enterprise cybersecurity posture and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee resilience and continuity strategies for critical digital assets.
• Promote risk‑aware decision‑making at pace.
• Work in partnership with the Global Strategy team to establish market scans to identify opportunity pipelines and translate them into actionable insights for firms, industries, and service lines.
• Build and maintain an AI and emerging tech inventory…