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Experience & Delivery Timeline

Strategic enterprise architecture, cloud transformation, and delivery leadership across regulated, high-value programmes in government, energy, defence, insurance, policing, and financial services.

Certifications

TOGAF 9 PractitionerAWS Certified Solutions Architect - ProfessionalAWS Certified Security SpecialistPrince2 PractitionerDSDM Agile Project Management PractitionerITIL Foundation

Industries Served

GovernmentEnergyFinancial ServicesInsuranceDefencePolicingRetailManufacturingEducationSupply ChainSmart IoT

Feb 2025 - Present

Principal Architect (Contract)

Aviva

  • Senior Architect defining data migration architecture from legacy mainframe to target cloud SaaS platform across a highly complex multi-platform landscape.
  • Identifying downstream impacts across multiple platforms, defining strategies for data quality, consistency, reconciliation, and currency.
  • Persuaded programme leadership to invest over GBP1M in end-to-end testing infrastructure, significantly reducing risk to reputation, regulatory fines, and customer impact.
  • Coordinating with enterprise, data, security, and risk architects to navigate Aviva's governance processes and secure architectural approvals.
  • Leveraging AI-assisted tools (Claude, ChatGPT) to accelerate data mapping analysis, architecture documentation, and solution design.

Oct 2021 - Feb 2025

Senior Enterprise / Principal Architect

Capgemini / Home Office

  • Led digital transformation of a major official-sensitive Home Office legacy system to a microservice-based, cloud-first architecture on AWS.
  • Spearheaded transition from police networks to a secure cloud-based environment, ensuring compliance with AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Defined architecture meta-model using ArchiMate enabling traceability from business features through to technology.
  • Developed AWS Security and Infrastructure designs for DevOps. Presented at Security Design Board and Technical Design Board.
  • Guided a team of six architects ensuring alignment between product features, user journeys, process models, and architecture standards.
  • Presented designs through Home Office governance forums to secure architecture approval and funding for transformative initiatives.

Jan 2019 - Oct 2021

Head of Design Authority — Smart Metering

DCC

  • Led architecture governance for the UK's GBP11bn Smart Metering critical national infrastructure programme, reporting directly to CTO and COO.
  • Established a collaborative engineering-based design authority, integrating business analysis, architecture, service design, and quality assurance.
  • Implemented a BiZZdesign digital twin to enhance enterprise-wide collaboration across stakeholders and suppliers.
  • Oversaw the Next Gen Smart Metering Program and next-day energy switching architecture.
  • Defined Engineering and Architecture capability model, Architecture Artifacts, and governance model.

Dec 2017 - Jan 2019

Systems Integration Architect

DCC

  • Provided end-to-end design governance for the integration and implementation of the UK Smart Metering Program.
  • Led architectural governance boards, including the Design Issues Board (DIB) and Architecture Review Group (ARG).
  • Influenced adoption of collaborative agile governance over engineering programme and supplier delivery.

Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

Enterprise Architect

Boeing UK

  • Lead Architect for Boeing's Staffordshire Police Programme and hybrid-cloud IT transformation.
  • Managed architectural governance for virtualisation, high availability, business continuity, and mobile data.
  • Led a team of five architects with weekly stakeholder meetings aligning IT strategy with policing objectives.

Dec 2014 - Dec 2016

Senior Solution Architect

Boeing Defence UK

  • Led architectural solutions for Boeing's MoD support contract, focusing on supply chain and finance capabilities.
  • Worked on multi-million-pound proposals for MoD logistics, including ITAR compliance projects.
  • Designed SOA and microservices solutions to address complex, heterogeneous system requirements.

Pre-2014

Various senior architecture, delivery, and operations roles

IBM, HP, ABN-Amro, Cigna, LeasePlan, Edexcel, and others

  • Held roles spanning Solutions Architect, Technical Lead, Development Manager, and IT Operations Manager.
  • Delivered ERP, systems integration, SOA, and transformation programmes across financial services, retail, manufacturing, education, and the public sector.

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