Greater Oxford Area
Experienced IT delivery leader with a demonstrated history of achieving results across financial services (B2C & B2B), secure government and retail industries. Commercially focused, product centric leader. I believe in setting goal based outcomes to inspire teams with desired outcome and empowering them to deliver business value, while remaining engaged through active participation in problem solving.
Leading the UK change and IT functions to build inclusive retail finance solutions
Leading a hybrid team to deliver retail finance (BNPL) solutions to high street names such as Octopus, Simba Sleep and Dusk. * Recovered monolith to microservices project * Helped secure private equity investment * Transformed delivery from change/run to product model * Delivered regulated products: Interest Bearing and Long Term Interest Free * Built multi award winning platform * Help secure acquisition by Zopa bank * Championed and delivered MACH architecture * Led lending engine and membership integration
Reporting to the CIO, as the chief technologist within the group. Responsible for the IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps. Accountable for the delivery by the technical teams across the strategic investment portfolio and the DevOps product communities.
Lead domain architect with line management responsibility across architecture and diverse engineering teams. From software engineering, application integration, data development and BI.
Responsible for digital transformation to enable the omni channel vison and global delivery of the technical projects within Change Management Services. Covering core platfrom, applications and infrastructure delivery.
Led programs across multiple secure government business units from UK Public Sector for Secure Mobility, the ATLAS Transformation Programme; and Defence for Command and Control Systems.
Led a variety of increasingly complex Ministry of Defence outsourced delivery projects. Including the recovery of several distressed deliveries.
Accountable for the development and delivery of secure command and control systems. Web, Distributed Client Server and plug-ins.
Retail software development in Java for head office, back office and POS systems.
Responsible for leading a implementation team to deliver solutions from deal acquisition through to roll-out.
Product take-on and pre-sales consultant for Java based retail systems.