Greater Edinburgh Area
As a results-driven Global Head of Enterprise Infrastructure & Architecture, I specialise in designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology strategies that align with business objectives and enable innovation. With a proven track record in IT strategy, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, networks, cloud, platform engineering, development, and automation, I bridge the gap between business vision and technical execution. I lead globally distributed teams across multiple time zones, fostering collaboration and excellence in complex, fast-paced environments. My approach combines strategic foresight with hands-on technical expertise, ensuring that technology decisions not only solve today’s challenges but also position organisations for long-term success. Passionate about delivering measurable business value, I work closely with executives, stakeholders, and technical teams to drive transformation, improve operational efficiency, and ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and future-ready.
- Own the global technology estate end-to-end across infrastructure, architecture, networks, cloud, and core platform strategy, operating as the bridge between technical execution and enterprise direction. - Lead global infrastructure and architecture across multiple regions, covering cloud, networks, identity, security alignment and platforms - Own enterprise technology standards, governance and operating model, ensuring consistency across a complex multi-entity organisation - Drive global transformation initiatives including platform consolidation, identity modernisation, SaaS governance and AI enablement - Accountable for stabilising and standardising a historically fragmented estate, reducing operational risk and improving scalability - Set direction on enterprise architecture, ensuring all technology decisions align to long-term strategy rather than short-term fixes - Worked directly with senior stakeholders to translate business requirements into executable technology roadmaps - Lead and develop a distributed global team, focusing on accountability, delivery consistency and raising the overall technical standards
Built and led the enterprise architecture function across a fragmented global technology estate, bringing structure, governance and direction. - Established enterprise architecture standards across infrastructure, networks, cloud, identity, and SaaS platforms, aligning multiple regions and business entities - Defined and governed target state architecture, reducing duplication and driving platform consolidation (M365, Google, SaaS sprawl, legacy estate) - Introduced formal governance around solution design, ensuring consistency, scalability and security across all new initiatives - Led architectural direction for major transformation programmes including cloud adoption, identity modernisation and collaboration platform strategy - Acted as the escalation point for complex cross-domain technical decisions, balancing speed, cost and long-term maintainability - Built credibility for architecture as a function - moving it from advisory to decision-making authority
YouTrain was acquired by GP Strategies in September 2017