As a Hands-on Technical Architect, I define and implement solutions that form part of a multi-tenant SaaS platform. To ensure the successful implementation of solutions by agile scrum teams, I set the direction for the development of new solutions and enhancements to legacy systems by taking responsibility for:• Developing full-stack proofs-of-concept to establish software patterns.• Mentoring and pairing with Developers to spread good practice and knowledge.• Creating a well-estimated and achievable backlog of user stories by working with agile scrum development teams, Product Owners and Product Managers.• Researching, evaluating and selecting new technologies.• Ensuring easy adoption of new technologies, and industry best practice and approaches.• Ensuring that solutions are scalable, reliable, monitorable and maintainable within our 24/7 service to our customers.• Communicate complex functional and non-functional requirements to Architects, Developers, DevOps, CloudOps, Product Owners and Manager.• Document solutions at a high-level using a C4 model and UML and/or BPMN at a low-level.

Working within an Agile Scrum software development team. Responsible for constructing high-performance and highly scalable solutions on a SaaS platform, employing a microservice architecture, deployed as Docker containers to the AWS Fargate service.

Implementing Warehouse Automation solutions using Java EE (CDI and JPA) and GlassFish, deployed on an Oracle/MSSQL/PostgreSQL and Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

Lead Java Developer in an Agile Scrum development team responsible for enhancement and support of the Viaduct integration product. My responsibilities included but were not limited to, designing solutions to enhancements, working with the Product Owner to create user stories, and technology stack evaluation and selection.

Lead Java Software Engineer of an Agile Software Development and Research team of five engineers. I am primarily responsible for developing new software packages which are added to the Infor suite of products.I research new frameworks, API's and Software Engineering patterns, and convert this research into Solution Architectures for my Team.

Developing Imaging and Content Management Systems (CMS) within the Retail Finance, UK Government Industries, incorporating Java J2EE Web Services and various other Enterprise Integration components. Also developing MI and HRMS solutions within the UK Security and Defence sector.

Developed Workflow Solutions for the Retail Finance sector. Hand-ons Technical Team Leader of a Team developing a 100% bespoke Investment Management solutions within the Corporate Finance sector.

Developed a Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Management Information Systems (MIS) for the in-house laboratories. Also assisted in finalising Business Requirements, and approved all database structural designs and modifications of my colleagues.

Worked with Business Sponsors to document and agree Business Requirements, and then work with limited supervision to design and implement a suitable/performant Oracle Database structure with an associated Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports application. This was an industrial placement year that was part of my University Degree.