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London, London, Gb

Leading the Group Functions Enterprise Architecture function to ensure that we have the right business capabilities to meet the business KPIs. and ensuring that we target change investment where it will return the most business value.

London, Gb

Applying Digital era Business and Enterprise Architecture methodologies to identify business capabilities with high business value, low technical health, and where there were potential conflicts and/or synergies across operating unit investment plans. Working with operating unit CIOs, business change leads, global process owners and business ops leaders. to deliver actionable insights into their IT landscape to develop roadmaps and optimise their change portfolios.Applying Business and Enterprise Architecture to gather information about the SAP landscape and develop a strategic roadmap.Enhancing existing ways of working to shape the demand backlog and provide design assurance into an Agile and DevOps delivery based around Products and Platforms Championed the benefits of developing a business capability model as the foundation for business transformation and optimisation. Provided the expertise on business capability development methodologies, and their pros and cons. Acted as QA to review and guide the development of the business capability model to enable the team to avoid the common mistakes and pitfalls that can undermine usefulness and value.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

I steered the transformation of the Enterprise Strategy & Advisory practice from a traditional application, integration and technology focused practice into a business change led, strategic CIO advisory consulting practice selling and delivering digital business transformation and IT business management services. I was the author of Wipro’s point of view on EA for the Digital era and I was responsibility for promoting the thought leadership and consulting services at industry forums and with industry analysts. As a result, the practice was positioned as the outright leader in EA services strategy by Forrester in their Wave report.Following are the key accomplishments:Creator of the innovative approach that connects the dots between business strategy and the change portfolio, to enable the definition of a set of fact based, business value targeted change initiatives. Delivered to clients as the Line of Sight Framework and the Enterprise Strategy Roadmap consulting service.Thought leader on the role of Digital era EA and modern Business Architecture in driving digital transformation as described in the Point of View that was used successfully with both clients and industry analysts.Designed and developed a target operating model for the business of Digital era EA incorporating mission, metrics, services, tools, governance and external interlocks as an accelerator to assist clients with starting/rebooting their EA function for the digital era.Developed Wipro’s application portfolio analysis consulting service into a class leading Business Capability led Application Portfolio Management approach supported by accelerators and tools.Inventor of a new agile native, decision-centric approach to solution design assurance which empowered agile development teams to rapidly deliver high quality change while still meeting organisations business and IT controls. https://www.wipro.com/applications/design-governance-in-the-agile-world/

Stratford, London, Gb

As Chief Enterprise Architect, I delivered improvements in change execution by establishing an extended architecture community consisting of the FSA architects and the chief architects from the FSA’s four IT partners to engender trust, open honest dialogue, and collaborative behaviour.Following are the key accomplishments:Communicated the target architecture and explored innovation in collaboration with IT partners.Defined and developed the Enterprise Architecture function and its processes.Recruited and managed the Enterprise Solution Architects for the project teams.Established and chaired the Architecture Review Board.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As Chief Architect, I led the special project team that IBM assembled to support me in the deployment and on-going development and the IT transformation framework that I created.Following are the key accomplishments:Recognised by IBM with an Outstanding Innovation and Leadership Award for the development and rollout of a strategic planning framework and approach to integrate business capability analysis, enterprise portfolio management, and change governance.Engaged with both external clients and other internal IBM initiatives to utilise the framework in real world situations to resolve client challenges and align IBM solution options.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As a Global Chief Architect, I led the development of IBM’s Global Wealth Management reference architecture, combining CBM (business capability models) and EA overlaid with mappings to IBM and partner solution components.Following are the key accomplishments:Developed a pre-integrated WM solution to take to market by collaborating with selected solution partners.Engaged with WM clients through RFP responses and presentations to sell the consulting led WM solution.