Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

• Set the technology vision and strategy for the APAC region while shaping global priorities, with accountability for emerging technology, research, and client impact. Lead 500+ technologists and serve as a trusted executive advisor to CxOs of national and regional organisations to translate global technology trends into locally relevant outcomes.
• Technology Strategy & Vision: Define and execute enterprise-wide technology strategies, identifying Horizon 2–3 opportunities and retiring legacy platforms to maintain competitive differentiation.
• Innovation & Emerging Tech: Lead the global emerging technology and research agenda, connecting R&D with client-facing accelerators and strategic partners to pilot and scale new technologies, including AI-first software delivery
• Thought Leadership: Amplify Thoughtworks’ reputation as a technology innovator through board-level advisory, public speaking, and media engagement; curated key themes that shaped market positioning.
• Client Impact & Advisory: Deliver strategic technology guidance to CxOs, ensuring exceptional outcomes across financial services, retail, and government, while embedding AI-first delivery practices into client organisations.
• Leadership & Culture: Mentor senior technology leaders, championing inclusion, collaboration, and capability growth across software, data, and infrastructure disciplines.

Jan 2024 – Oct 2024 · 9 mos

• Co-design client's executive technology leaders driving digital and technology transformations. Specialty topics range from technology strategy, modernisation and scaling to building products and platforms that bring the strategy to life using modern architecture and engineering.
• Drives the execution of Thoughtworks technology strategy in the service lines. That includes developing and sharing our unique approaches to transformation, growing the next generation of leaders, driving assets/IP harvesting and creation, developing partnerships, and contributing to our go-to-market strategies.

Nov 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sep 2020 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Lead the largest service line to expand and scale our portfolio of differentiated services. Work across global and local leadership teams to support our clients with modernisation, platform and cloud solutions.
• Key partners with MD ANZ, Head of Finance ANZ, Head of Business Operations ANZ, Head of Technology ANZ, other service line leaders ANZ, Head of Emerging Technology, other EMPC service line leaders across the global and EMPC Global Service Line leader. Serving the Australian Leadership Team as first-amongst-equals service line partner.
• Key accountabilities include driving differentiation, building capability, curating points of view, driving profitable growth and building and running the daily operations of the service line. Played a pivotal role in acquiring and integrating the Itoc business to grow the infrastructure capability.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

• Sarah served ThoughtWorks Australia as a Luminary Support alongside her usual consultant responsibilities. The responsibilities of this role include identifying the next generation of thought leaders across ThoughtWorks Australia, at all levels of experience, with a particular focus on gender diversity and mentoring budding thought leaders (including collaboration in topic selection, content creation and delivery). The aim is to increase the number of ThoughtWorks impacting local and national communities through conference speaking, blog and article writing and open source contributions.

Jun 2017 – Jan 2024 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• Key Projects:
• Scale-Up company
• CTO Executive Coach/Advisor
• Sarah worked as a coach and trusted advisor to the CTO of a company who was transitioning and scaling from a successful start-up to the next level of growth. In this role she created the company’s Technical Strategy, which supported its ambitious Business Strategy, assessed and reviewed the architecture and technical stack of the system, and created a Technical Roadmap to execute on the Business and Technical Strategies.
• Digital Transformation Replatform
• Head of Architecture
• Sarah worked as a trusted advisor to the CIO of a company that was replatforming a legacy system. She acted as the Head of Architecture to advise and support the oversight of the migration to the Target Architecture. In this capacity, she developed and embedded the Architecture Capability, worked with Product Owners to establish the Tech Vision for each new feature and worked closely with teams to execute this vision and strategy.

Nov 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Sarah served the Brisbane office as the Market Technical Principal (MTP) alongside her usual consultant responsibilities. In this role, she worked closely with the Head of Technology supporting the execution of ThoughtWorks Tech Strategy. By understanding the specific technology needs of the Brisbane market, she was well placed to inform and advise on local and national decisions. She also supported the Brisbane-based consultants by providing hands-on Technical Assurance to project teams, helped the Demand team by offering technical guidance to pursuits, assisted the Recruitment and Capability Development teams assess capability gaps and fostered the growth of internal and external communities within Brisbane.

Sep 2011 – Jun 2017 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for leading and coaching teams towards successful delivery of large programs of work and agile transformations.
• Key Projects:
• Queensland Government
• Solutions Architect/Technical Principal
• Sarah worked as an architect, advisor and caretaker on several projects for the Queensland Government which delivered better digital services to its citizens. In this role she was instrumental in helping the client to pivot their vision to deliver a more robust platform, reducing time and cost to market for several projects.
• Medical Practice company
• Solutions Architect/Iteration Manager
• Sarah worked as an architect on a project which moved medical practice software from thick client to the cloud.
• Quick Service Restaurant company
• Iteration Manager/ Solutions Architect
• Sarah worked as an Iteration Manager to lead the team to a successful delivery of the support phase of a project.
• She also assessed the software delivery techniques and improved the release management process
• Health Insurance company
• Tech Lead/IM/Agile coach
• Sarah led a team to the successful rewrite of the quoting tool for a major Australian health insurance company. She also helped the transformation of the development team from a waterfall process into a well functioning agile process.
• Startup Sports company
• Application Developer
• Sarah worked with a close-knit team to develop an Android application for a set-top box for a unique sports proposition.
• Real Estate Agency company
• Lead Developer
• Created a mobile iPad experience for a real estate company to help their agents with their marketing pitch for new vendors.
• Superannuation industry
• DevOps Consultant
• Sarah assessed the software delivery techniques and improved the release management process
• Financial Services industry
• DevOps Consultant
• Sarah assessed the software delivery techniques and improved the release management process

May 2011 – Aug 2011 · 3 mos

• Responsible for leading and coaching teams towards successful delivery of large programs of work and agile transformations.
• Key Projects:
• Publishing company
• Tech Lead Consultant/Inception Facilitator
• Sarah was asked to assess the health of a critical project, which was overrun and delayed. Following this health check, she helped the delivery team facilitate a new inception for this critical project in order to uncover the true business value and set a clear direction for the remainder of the project.

Aug 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Responsible for leading and coaching teams to successful delivery following XP and agile practices.
• Key Projects:
• Global Media company
• Tech Lead
• Sarah led a team of 10 developers in the successful delivery of a Media Planning Tool.
• Social Housing company
• Tech Lead/Inception Facilitator
• Sarah led the technical aspect of the project inception for a Social Housing company.
• Online Gambling company
• Tech Lead/Architect/IM/Agile Coach
• Sarah acted as the tech lead for this integration-heavy project, a project which required the coordination between various teams (some working in an agile manner, others working in a waterfall manner). She also supported the architecture team decide on the future architecture of the company.
• Sarah was also instrumental in the transformation of this client from a waterfall process to an agile environment.

Aug 2007 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs

• Responsible for the successful delivery of key features for software applications following XP and agile software practices.
• Key Projects:
• Online Mobile Phone Comparison Startup
• Application developer
• Sarah worked closely with the client as a developer to deliver the core functionality for a Web2.0 application in Ruby on Rails.
• Global Retail Intelligence company
• Application Developer/partial Tech Lead
• Sarah worked closely with the client as a developer on a project to enable the client to streamline their processes.