As the great digital shift continues to accelerate, organizations are looking to accelerate business outcomes by unlocking the value of their data with an open, hybrid multi-cloud and AI approach that scales resiliency and performance. However, few are satisfied with the pace and scale of business outcomes, inhibited by the growing complexity of their IT estates. At IBM we believe there are 4 key imperatives driving the next era of hybrid multi-cloud, which you must be prepared to meet, in order to keep up with the pace of innovation. IBM is assisting clients in making informed architectural decisions to expedite outcomes and future-proof their businesses, enabling the creation of sustained value. These architectural decisions are grounded in four core imperatives:Create freely:- Simplify your hybrid cloud landscape to distribute, run and connect workloads and IT anywhere.Create securely:- Confidently integrate your data keeping it safe and compliant as it moves across your ecosystem.Create intelligently:- Architect an ecosystem that will enable AI at scale.Create quickly:- Deliver IT on demand with as a service solutions, consuming only what you need, when you need it.

Working in Cross-Domain Delivery Architecture and Industry Services (AIS) at Microsoft I seek to provide end-to-end orchestration, oversight, and architectural accountability across the solution lifecycle, to maximise my customer outcomes and mitigate project risks. I achieve this though offering leadership in multi-domain, cross solution area(s), cross-industry (and industry-specific), high risk/high value/high complexity, opportunities and engagements.Question: What is high complexity I hear you ask? My short answer would be: Projects such as this: https://www.microsoft.com/inculture/sports/real-madrid/ My long answer would be - Where we bring the best of Microsoft together with the single objective of supporting (digital) transformation (which if you look at Microsoft's definition is, "reimagining how you bring together people, data and processes to create value for your customers and maintain a competitive advantage in a digital-first world") for our customers, my role therefore is to provide the end-to-end orchestration, oversight, and architectural accountability across the solution lifecycle in support of our customers as they (digitally) transform. I seek to achieve this though being the centre of gravity that binds, grounds and supports the entire team as we work to overcome challenges, change ways of working & establish new capabilities and services in support of the key objective, our customers success, and of course beyond that, "to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more"

A Solution Architect in the Microsoft Practice within CSC.