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Seattle, Wa, Us

Senior Partner Solutions Architect in AWS Partner Management, working as a trusted advisor and technical strategist to support AWS Partners in UK and Ireland to build a successful AWS practice. I focus on partners operating in Financial Services, and projects requiring guidance on cybersecurity or IoT.I work directly with senior business leadership and technical leadership of a number of key AWS Partners to develop a joint technical strategy, building upon partners' unique technical focus and vertical sector experience. As a member of the AWS Financial Services Technical Field Community, I also provide technical strategy and cloud architecture advice directly to Financial Services client organisations. * Act as the technical trusted advisor for key AWS Partners, working closely with business and technical leadership on shared technical strategy.* Develop technical strategies and strategic development plans to align AWS Partner business ambitions with the AWS Partner Network programs that can best support these.* Enable AWS Partners to achieve their ESG and Sustainability goals by architecting for sustainability, measuring impact, and incorporating environment data into business analytics.* Evaluate and authorise funding support requests to support partners’ commercial engagements.* Co-leading an initiative to promote AWS Partner status to IT businesses in Northern England.* Evangelise AWS services and solutions at external summits, webinars, and product launches.* Provide guidance on technical architecture best practice, and AWS products and services. * Jointly develop industry- and vertical-focused cloud solutions with AWS partners and customers.

London, Gb

Solution Architecture Lead in BT Security with a focus on solution architecture for Big Data applications, developing the technical design for a cybersecurity platform, and providing subject matter expertise to the wider organisation. * Technical Design Authority for Operations Support Systems in BT Security's strategic Security Service Transformation project, and its Graded Service Model for the provision of Managed Security Services to external client organisations.* Leading the architecture team responsible for the MSS device management platform and its transformation into a data-centric, analytics-driven platform that supports proactive decision support and automated response.* Working with BT Research to transition cutting edge research prototypes into industrial scale products, to ensure the cybersecurity analytics platform performs at the scale needed by nation state and multinational corporate clients.* Designing the ICS/SCADA security proposition for integrated cybersecurity solutions for IT-OT network integration in the industrial control space.* Collaboration with BT Research in applying blockchain technology to cybersecurity applications, transitioning prototypes to real-world client PoCs.* Providing subject matter expertise and knowledge on DevOps, agile development practices, secure application development, IoT, sensornets, and other cybersecurity-related subjects, to the wider BT business.

New York, New York, Us

Senior developer in the front office Fundamental Equities and Research Platform teams within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Developed and supported mission-critical trading applications. Direct and frequent collaboration with front office personnel, external vendors and service providers, and members of other technical teams, was of key importance in this role.Development projects included:* Led the design and development of several applications within a greenfield research support platform. These applications enable collaboration across business units and regions for research provider assessment, commissions allocation, and corporate access tracking.* Ported proprietary Order Management System back-end services from a legacy Solaris platform to a new Linux-based cloud infrastructure, and transitioning multiple region-specific Order Management Systems to a unified global system.* Transitioned user authentication and authorisation mechanisms for a critical trading application to a role-based approach, transferring privilege management overhead from the application team to a support team.* Integrated and unified multiple vendor and internal data sources, providing appropriate access controls, APIs, and reporting.Other duties included promoting and improving software testing, delivering software development skills training, and promoting information security best practice.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, Gb

Senior developer working with investment bank clients including Morgan Stanley and Nomura on long-term software development projects. Agile test-driven development processes with short release cycles ensured timely delivery in response to rapidly changing requirements of internal and external users.Client projects were developed in globally distributed teams, using a wide variety of technologies but always placing a high priority on robust design and meeting the client's needs. Development projects included:* An integrated research, analytics, and trading application for equities and fixed income business, used by thousands of internal users and tens of thousands of external users.* An equities research application used by front office trading personnel to manage portfolios and measure performance, and to publish trade ideas to external clients.* A fixed income investment web portal to provide analytics and research content to internal users and external clients.Non-client duties included managing and implementing the security review process for internal software projects, improving the technical recruitment process, and developing internal corporate administration applications.

London, England, Gb

Software developer working on mission-critical projects for large-scale collection and analysis of network information. These projects involved highly specialised information and technologies, and were generally tackling specialised problems not addressed elsewhere in the technology sector.Contributed throughout the development lifecycle from inception to deployment, in a highly security conscious environment. Led the development of subsystems of projects for large-scale data analysis, and research tools, using a range of proprietary and open source technologies.Instigated collaboration between divisions of the organisation to avoid redundant effort on R&D tools, chaired risk analysis sessions, and developed a software quality review process. Other technical duties included reverse engineering, source code analysis, system efficiency analysis, and resource tracking.

Phd, Computer Science

Msc (Research), Computer Science

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

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