Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
With three decades of leadership, I build technology strategies and teams where predictable, high-quality outcomes replace crisis-driven effort. Success is engineered, not rescued. Leadership & Strategy: I lead teams (5 to 150) across greenfield initiatives and post-acquisition integrations, emphasising operational quality, regulatory rigour, and a sustainable people-first culture. Programme Stability & Predictability: Re-architected governance and delivery processes for critical, high-risk programmes, successfully transitioning them from crisis-mode into predictable, top-quartile operations. Technology Strategy & Modernisation: Architected and governed the migration of legacy on-prem workloads to cloud-native SaaS, establishing the systemic capability for high-speed, reliable delivery while optimising cost-to-serve. Team Builder & Coach: Established scalable talent architecture and mentorship frameworks, consistently growing engineers, tech leads and future directors. Formal Communities of Practice ensured systemic quality improvement and knowledge transfer across 120+ engineers. DevOps & Continuous Delivery: Embedded the planning discipline required to achieve top-quartile DORA performance, shipping to production multiple times per day with high confidence on a mortgage origination platform processing more than 30% of UK transactions. Domain Expertise: Deep fintech experience (D2C & B2B digital lending, payments, trading, telecoms) underpinned by meticulous planning for security and regulatory compliance.