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London, England, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

Responsible for designing and architecting solutions, defining technology selections aligning with technology strategy and investigating new technologies. Also developing prototypes or proofs of concept and specifying interfaces and contracts for development teams. Covering application, infrastructure, data and process architectural areas.In addition using.

New York City, NY, US

• First non-US based EA appointed by the Chief Architect to cover global editorial systems strategy also aid / expand governance and metrics activities to UK, CEMEA and AsiaPac.
• Owned technology strategy for editorial and fabrication systems, reducing overall global development durations and spend significantly within New Lexis change programme (>£100 million investment).
• Expanded adoption of architectural principles, golden rules and system asset governance / metrics – UK coverage up to 100% and onboarded LN France, South Africa, India & Australia based teams. Work identified multiple.
• Implemented streamlined technology governance process unblocking Agile development teams and increasing technology utilisation visibility by 10-fold.
• Completed Technical Due Diligence for multi-million-pound mergers and acquisitions (including successful purchases of Jordan Publishing, MLex & RavelLaw).
• Championed UK Continuous Integration & Delivery Initiative resulting in 90%+ speed improvement for automated cloud (AWS) build, test and deployment.

London, GB

• Additional responsibilities for resourcing as well as architectural leadership.
• Managed 40 strong UK development team, including technical leads, developers, testers and deployment engineers.
• Negotiated and implemented a graduate programme, enabling more cost-effective running of the department and introducing awareness of new technologies.
• Delivered highly popular and cost-effective solutions actively adopted by US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and Hong Kong business units.
• Successfully migrated many offerings onto AWS cloud based hosting, providing improved cost, flexibility and resilience.

London, GB

• Given architectural oversight of successfully growing team by Head of Content Solutions.
• Manager of 8 technical leads ensuring their developments aligned with strategic direction.
• Defined architectural standards for documenting systems – including diagramming and interface contracts, driving to greater understanding of systems across department and more widely within the business.
• Training and evolving architectural understanding of team members to enable them to take on the role of solution architect.

London, GB

• Recruited by Content Solutions Development Manager to provide architectural solutions for all content / knowledge management challenges faced.
• Modularised and decoupled systems to enable independent evolution and simplification of the UK systems portfolio.
• Increased UK managed content set coverage by over 300%.
• Winning UK, US and ECLA innovation awards for the solutions delivered.

Norwich, GB

• Managed team of 4 architects.
• Led strategic architectural direction of all customer specific content and knowledge management solutions. Larger customer implementations in the order of £1m per implementation.

GB

• Designed and implemented flagship CMS (ActiveText) – major driver behind acquisition.
• Led team of 2 developers.