Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom
An experienced solution consultant who enjoys working on complex projects understanding challenging requirements and offering creative solution options in a client facing role. Adept at owning client, business and technical relationships. Able to maintain a holistic overview of the end to end solution and quickly impact assess change across the whole solution highlighting risk and mitigation options.
Take on architectural responsibility for the communication platform engines ensuring solutions or enhancements fit with the enterprise model and use agreed upon components. Take a lead in highlighting potential efficiencies, improvements in the service and future direction of the platform.
Take a lead role in the Communication solution design team to support the communication engines for the bank offering solutions to complex problem statements. Bring fresh ideas and be the overarching expert encompassing third party suppliers to achieve a truly end to end solution. Work with the business and technical teams to ensure smooth transition of solutions from inception through to warranty understanding both business cost, stability and technical issues.
Joined an established scrum feature team to review and bring the draft solution up to Aviva architectural standards amending the design as necessary. The solution was a mix of private cloud, public cloud and data centre services. Tasked to get the solution design TDA approved and work with security and data governance teams to ensure the solution was compliant with all internal standards and provide evidence of approvals.
Moved from lead developer to team leader delivering document composition tools primarily for a major bank. Involved on site visits promoting capabilities within the organisation that fit the banks needs. Promoted to a hybrid design role working across both the internal and external business and technical stakeholders to offer a single voice leading customer communication solutions. Initially worked as lead BA but asked to write technical designs as well as requirement documents to allow a seamless transition from a customers perspective. Able to lead the development and testing teams while also supporting the client through both design and delivery stages of large projects.