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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

• Work with Product Managers to own portfolio key objectives, investigate and refine the problem space and define conceptual/reference and detailed architectures to multiple engineering pods
• Investigate and document current state architectures to use as knowledge transfer documents to engineering and product teams. These documents are also used as a basis for investigating the scale of impact of new.
• Work with colleagues in Product and Engineering to understand their goals and roadmaps to produce target architectures and supporting technology roadmaps. These work items are then refined into backlog items for the.
• Influence portfolio leadership (often at GM level) to set priorities for the key object workstreams I’m supporting
• Identify and own the resolution of architecture and project issues
• Support the central architecture function at Xero by owning and delivering against work items and initiatives that are outside of the portfolio I’m supporting

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for leading multi-skilled agile delivery teams to design and deliver technology projects to meet customer needs.
• Worked with client stakeholders (often at Director level and above) and project leadership to define a product vision and both functional and non-functional requirements to help the client implement a new platform
• Own and define the project architecture vision and solution designs, while setting the overall technology direction for projects. Subsequently, solutions are refined into backlog items for the agile team work from
• Acted as an escalation point for the agile teams or the client to discuss and resolve technical issues
• Identified and raised architectural and delivery issues and drove through to resolution. I also supported junior colleagues to do the same to support their development
• Owned and presented solution options, and solution artefacts to stakeholders and agile teams

• Responsible for defining enterprise level strategies across several business capabilities
• Worked with business stakeholders to understand the business strategy for each impacted area. This was used to define the scope of each strategy
• Formed and ran a team of Portfolio Lead Architects and Lead Engineers from the impacted areas to identify hotspots within the current architecture that will prevent the business from achieving their goals and drove.
• As a proposed target architecture was being defined, I worked with CIO and business stakeholders so they can understand and feed into the future state of technology in their area
• Presented architecture decisions, strategies, and roadmaps to Director and MD level architecture stakeholders at an area Architecture Review Board. This includes stakeholders at CTO and CIO level, as well as senior.
• Worked with Solution Architects to define their project architecture based on the defined and agreed strategies

• Responsible for leading several teams across multiple portfolios, ranging from regulatory to discretionary projects including partnerships with 3rd party organisations
• I form part of a project leadership team and provide advice, guidance, and direction to the project while acting as an escalation point as required
• Produce reference architecture documents for each project, which are presented to technical and non-technical project stakeholders. This includes CTO stakeholders at a Design Authority to ensure the architecture is in.
• Work with my team to produce design documentation, based on the reference architecture. This involves architects from impacted areas and Platform Architects
• Chair and lead workshop solutioning sessions with business and technical stakeholders of various levels
• Consult on upcoming change to refine project goals and produce indicative cost and effort estimate for project approval and funding

• Successfully led a team of several architects to deliver large scale change under aggressive regulatory timescales
• Co-ordinated the architecture deliver across multiple business units also required to deliver against the regulation.
• Defined and chaired a programme level Design Authority to ensure consistency in the overall architecture and to prevent one particular business unit deviating from the architectural direction unless absolutely necessary
• Produced reference architecture documents for the project, which was then presented to technical and non-technical project stakeholders for stakeholder buy-in and governance approval
• Worked with my team to produce design documentation for their respective workstreams
• Act as an escalation point for design decisions and technology risks. This results in risk-based decisions being made balancing long term technology impact with short term project need

• Solutions architect responsible for delivering high-level design documentation across several workstreams on two large regulatory portfolios
• Took part in requirement reviews and walkthroughs to identify impacted component teams that would need to be changed as part of the solution. I subsequently worked with leads from these areas to produce the overall.
• Supported implementation events for both regulatory projects and supported data migration events for one of the regulatory projects (out of hours activity)
• Represented Barclays at industry workshops to influence the industry design
• Owned the governance for the workstreams I was the lead on, including creating a reference architecture and presenting to a Design Authority
• Supported test and implementation teams by supporting their knowledge gathering and review sessions as well as reviewing and approving their output artefacts

Radbroke Hall

• Work with Product Owners to help define the scope of new propositions and refine business requirements
• Craft the architecture vision for each project and take the vision through internal and central Design Authority governance processes.
• Document the lower-level architectural design by working alongside development teams in Pingit and interacting with Architects within the Payments CTO.
• When working with 3rd parties, I represented Barclays to understand how best to implement the services taking into account Functional and Non-Functional requirements
• Support developers by performing code reviews as required
• Review test scenarios and test cases documented by the Pingit Testing/QA team.

Radbroke Hall

• I continued my responsibility from my previous role in addition to the following responsibilities:
• Managed the workload of my team, made up of onshore and offshore colleagues
• Reported on the status of each deliverable being worked on to project stakeholders
• Acted as an escalation point for my team and project stakeholders, and to make risk-based design decisions where required.
• Defining architecture vision documents for each project I worked on, and to take artefacts through governance processes.

Radbroke Hall

• Define low level architecture documents based on a high-level strategy documentation, working with members of the development, testing, and live support teams
• Own and complete internal governance processes for each design I worked on
• Reviewed and refined project requirements with stakeholders to ensure the project goals would be met by the produced solution
• Acted as an Accessibility Champion to the Mobile Department, working in a small to raise awareness of Accessibility regulation and champion development standards

Radbroke Hall;

• Focused on Automating Acceptance tests
• Tasked with finding automation tools and frameworks that could be used to validate functionality during development cycles on a wide array of software applications
• Responsible for organising a team of 7 through a Proof-of-Concept phase and into mainstream usage across all projects within the Mobile Department
• Lead the team through a research phase to identify which software would enable the team to meet all of the requisite testing criteria agreed with department stakeholders
• Modified and re-designed existing frameworks in use by Barclays, and trained my team in their usages whilst ensuring that it would remain future-proof, i.e., allowing for seamless interaction with the Oracle Databases.

Radbroke Hall

• Tested some of the more complicated functionality, and aided the testing team where necessary
• Discussed testing requirements with the project Architectures to ensure that the test my team and I were undertaking would be accurate and correct
• Assist in leading the Pingit testing team by coordinating an onshore team of 5 and an offshore team of 5
• Compile a daily report on testing status and execution statistics to project stakeholders, and also broadcast defect statistics to the appropriate development teams
• Owned the resolution of test environment setup and test data creation
• Made the point of contact for an offshore Automation testing team for any test data requirements or functionality related queries

Radbroke Hall

• Placed with Barclays Bank working on the Pingit payments application from its early stages
• Created Test Scripts and Scenarios covering a wide range of the functionality from a requirements specification
• Tested a variety of software applications, both Web based and on Mobile devices during smoke testing and end-to-end and regression testing cycles
• I was also made responsible for testing the more complex scenarios, working with external teams and by myself. This included Fraud test, Business account integration and ATM test
• Supported the testing team by creating and running SQL queries

After graduating from University I was employed by FDM Group as a Software Test Analyst and underwent their in-house training programme. After qualifying I was contracted out to Barclays Bank PLC to work in their Mobile Department, where I have been since August 2011. Since working in this Department, I have been directly involved with numerous releases.

Bsc, Computer Science, Upper Second Class (2:1)

Activities and Societies: University of Leicester Computing Society (Secretary)

Btec National Diploma, Ict Practitioners, Triple Distinction (Ddd)