Manchester, England, United Kingdom
A seasoned Head of Engineering with deep expertise in cloud strategy, digital transformation, and engineering leadership. Experienced at driving success through shaping high-impact strategies and leading talented teams. With a focus on AWS and Azure, excels in translating complex business goals into scalable, secure, and innovative cloud solutions. With experience spanning C-suite engagement, team development, and revenue growth, and a track record of delivering transformative projects across multiple industries. Passionate about guiding organisations through their cloud journeys and fostering a culture of best practices, agility, and innovation. Skills: Leadership | Engineering | Digital Transformation | Cloud Strategy | Client Focused | Consultancy | Stakeholder Engagement | Problem Solving | Collaboration | Communication | Commercial Acumen
Arantis Ltd is an expert technical consultancy providing pragmatic, unbiased advice to UK businesses. We specialise in Cloud Strategy, DevOps, and Fractional CTO leadership to ensure your technology delivers real business value.
Delivering leadership across both the Manchester and Build UKI Leadership teams, driving strategy, client engagement, and revenue growth. Leading a talented team of Platform Engineers, shaping go-to-market strategies, spearheading new client opportunities, and overseeing initiatives that drive revenues across the UKI region. - Translated client goals into actionable strategies and proposals. - Guided clients through the journey from legacy systems to cutting-edge cloud platforms. - Aligned technology solutions with business value, enabling clients to craft robust, secure, and scalable infrastructures. - Analysed the current systems at a car leasing company to propose a modern connected data platform to improve ways of working and technical ability within the organisation. - Led on the assessment and design to migrate a sporting client from IBM Cloud to AWS, modernising the architecture to better fit their strategic goals. Led the team through the migration work with a team of engineers. - Led on the assessment of a call recording companies’ systems to design the migration paths from an on-premise data centre to AWS. - Designing a serverless architecture in AWS for a small clothing company to better manage their warehouse and stock. - Vast experience in proposals and sales, hiring new engineers and building their career paths. - Working closely with partners like Microsoft and AWS to ensure we could get the best funding options for our clients.
Providing Digital, Data, and Technology services across the UK market. Acting Head of Cloud. Leading the growth and development of cloud capability, defining go-to-market strategies, and building a high-performing team through strategic hiring. - Retained the AWS Advanced Partnership. - Led the achievement of AWS Government Competency accreditation. - Ensured the maximisation of these partnerships. - Assessed and enhanced cloud strengths, developing a cloud strategy, and ensuring engineers were trained in cloud best practices partnering with the Head of Engineering. - Improved the quality of hires by refining the recruitment process, including training Leads and Seniors to align with key criteria I established. - Enabled C-suite executives to realise the benefits of cloud transformation - Led the development of an open-source application enabling hospital patients to make video calls to loved ones during the pandemic. - Enhanced the service to better address customer needs within the care sector. - Served as Account Lead for the national expansion of the NHS Virtual Visits platform. - Led a COVID response initiative to increase blood plasma collection for the NHS. Architected the solution using Azure functions and .NET. - Architected a fully serverless, event-driven platform on AWS using Golang, delivering it within tight timelines. - Provided leadership across projects for the Home Office, XLab, Ofqual, and the Department for Education. - Ensured adherence to development best practices, GDS guidelines, and iterative ways of working. - Drove a strategic focus on AWS and Azure skills development, initiated training programs, and enhanced our cloud partnership initiatives.