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Newquay, Gb

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Gb

Enabling organisations to deploy integrated financial advice solutions with compelling user journeys. Focus’ secure API-first technology platform utilises a modular architecture to unlock the vision of a “composable enterprise”, providing an extensible foundation for outstanding adviser and customer experiences.

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Gb

* Led technology design and implementation of a Cloud native multi-tenant SaaS platform meeting hosting cost, performance, availability, security, extensibility and quality goals.* Updated governance, standards and security processes for an evolving technology portfolio through the creation of discipline-based organisational practices, regular leader forums, and automation.* Improved team job satisfaction and employee retention while managing staff and partner resource across multiple parallel projects at different lifecycle stages.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

* Established new capability for development of internationalised mobile banking apps, with robust and repeatable release automation. * Advice and guidance concerning deployment and management of cloud, DevOps, and development technologies across the organisation.

York, North Yorkshire, Gb

* Developing integrated process and technology standards to ensure smooth delivery of complex customer projects as subject matter expert for cloud automation, tooling, and DevOps practises.

York, North Yorkshire, Gb

* Led initiatives to accelerate cloud delivery through standardisation of tooling and process, adoption of a DevOps culture, and extensive systems automation, ultimately achieving vendor cloud accreditations.* Communicated vision for cloud managed service propositions and worked to first deliver and later evolve these with customers and business stakeholders.* Collaborated with senior stakeholders to identify business goals and set strategy, ultimately turning these into actionable multi-year investment plans, recruitment profiles, and product roadmaps.

York, North Yorkshire, Gb

* Led adoption of a sustainable and agile product-centric delivery capability for internal systems.* Consulting in cloud app migration and transformation, Robotic Process Automation, DevOps, and the cultural/process changes needed to harness cloud technology.* Technical, architecture, and delivery lead for the Trustmarque Digital Platform, enabling customer self-service, automating procurement processes, and driving business adoption of Agile principles.* Microsoft Azure specialist, with particular focus on CSP, Azure DevOps, apps, APIs, and data.* Demystifying technology to define and deliver new service propositions, managing risk to exploit modern cloud platforms and architecture patterns.

York, North Yorkshire, Gb

* Worked with a wide variety of public and private sector organisations and across a range of industries to deliver technology transformation, setting shared vision and roadmap across solution stakeholders.* Demonstrated excellent written and presentation skills across the solution lifecycle, through pre-sales, bid response, technical design, and team collaboration meetings.* Exhibited an aptitude to quickly learn new technologies, formulate roadmaps, and drive cross-discipline outcomes across cloud, BI, web, APIs, mobile development, and automation.* Strong customer focus and account awareness, modelling cost and risk in both customer and supplier contexts.

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Gb

* Identified key software patterns to isolate and stabilise complex components and integrations* Evangelised and demonstrated technologies to enhance product proposition* Liaised with a range of banks and financial institutions to deliver integration capabilities * Created an architecture governance framework to align development with business needs * Worked on cost/benefit analyses for a range of investment opportunities and new technologies* Designed and rolled out new software build processes incorporating automated build, test and deployment* Set and managed employment objectives for direct reports, tracking training and development needs

York, Gb

* Defined technical standards and responsibilities for interoperable components delivered by both in-house and major IT partner project teams * Estimated risks, benefits, and impact of design decisions to keep stakeholders informed of project progress and potential implementation conflicts * Designed and delivered projects adhering to corporate strategies and IT standards, considering security, master data, interoperability (including SOA) and accessibility * Documented solution design with supporting platform justification and capacity plans * Oversaw the development and enhancement of software libraries to encourage code reuse and reduce code ownership through source code reviews and subsequent refactoring

Irving, Tx, Us

* Established a solid understanding of development best practices including unit testing,extreme programming and design patterns. * Worked with international project teams to assure delivery of modular software components * Gained experience in Business Intelligence with the Cognos platform and served as a consultant for pan-European projects

Jp

Worked as part of a team to develop, test, deploy and maintain a .NET-based web content management system, assuming a lead role by the end of the placement.

Computer Science (Hons), Computer Science

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