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Warrington, Gb

As a Principal Solution Architect in the Engineering & Architecture Group (EAG), I am at the forefront of technological innovation, driving AI and data transformations for global organizations. My role is not just about delivering solutions; it’s about continuous growth and learning. I leverage my expertise in modern data platforms, analytics, machine learning, and AI to empower individuals and organizations worldwide.In this pivotal position, I am part of a team that prioritizes continuous learning and development, providing unparalleled access to the latest innovations. Guiding customers through their AI transformation journeys, I also enhance my own skills, ensuring I remain at the cutting edge of industry advancements.Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) EAG is a global consulting and engineering organization supporting our most complex and leading-edge customer engagements. We enhance ISD’s technical capabilities and partner with others to develop innovative solutions and engineering standards, setting our sales and delivery teams up for success. By leveraging the principles of model, care, and coach, we deliver consistent, high-quality customer experiences through technical leadership and IP capture centred on delivery truth. Committed to Responsible AI, we help our customers and partners build ethical, transparent, and trustworthy AI solutions.

Cloud Architect in the Industry Solutions Retail and Consumer Goods Service Line utilising retail and consumer good industry expertise to identify, lead, and manage a set of complex industry focused solution opportunities. Drives the sales team pursuits, scoping proposals, and ensuring successful delivery on groundbreaking engagements.Develops a network of internal/external relationships with senior-level decision makers to build influence in addressing issues and facilitating additional views on the matter of interest. Acts as an advisor to external stakeholders.Uses evidence-based arguments that articulate complex concepts in a simple manner to challenge Microsoft and customers when a decision or course of action will not produce optimal results. Leverages strategic expertise to encourage alternative approaches where applicable.Leads the adoption of Microsoft solutions technologies based on understanding of competitor solutions and how customer business value can be driven through Microsoft's offerings. Differentiates Microsoft's solutions in customer/partner conversations to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s). Leads virtual teams around technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures.Collaborates with the Account Team to understand the business solution/problem. Drives agreement, based on the customer’s priorities, requirements, approach, principles, concepts, and expectations. Builds a realistically costed, advanced/complex Solution Approach with traceability of requirements, constraints, decisions, and tradeoffs that balances risk, technical credibility, and technical innovation to meet customer need. Leads oversight and governance and establishment of quality practices and standards to realize the business solution.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Global role functioning in close interaction with product engineering and collaborating with services teams to drive solution adoption. Utilises a mix of advanced technology, customer and strategic business acumen to work with CxOs to deliver global strategies, digital transformation and technical readiness. The focus is on understanding the business challenges global customers face and combining this with broad and deep knowledge about Cloud, Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Data Visualization. This requires both broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect solutions by mapping common customer business problems to reusable end-to-end technology solutions to be implemented worldwide by the Services delivery organization

Manchester, United Kingdom

Drives high priority customer initiatives, leveraging Azure data services to solve the biggest and most complex data challenges faced by Microsoft’s enterprise customers. Technical, customer facing role, accountable for the end-to-end customer deployment and usage experience for Azure data services. Owns the Azure technical customer engagement including: architectural design sessions, implementation projects and/or Proofs of Concepts. Experienced in leading deep technical architecture and design discussions with senior executives.

Knutsford

Manages design services for (Real-time Integration, ETL/Data Modelling, Big Data) within the Chief Architecture Office. Designing solutions across all Barclay's Integration and Information Services technologies. Responsible for • Stakeholder Management and Technical Leadership• Ensuring close communication and synergy with Business representatives, Technical Leadership and definitive guidance for issue resolution, portfolio demand management and Service Improvement.Architects and E2E designers to provide effective design solutions and roadmaps aligned to organizational goals.• Creation of reusable assets, catalogues & standards across all technologies. Achievments• Formed Big Data design Team• Defined and Implemented Big data solution architecture design patterns, and drove their adoption.• Designed Enterprise Data Lake• Reengineered organizational structure to create more effective, efficient and collaborative high performing teams.• Increased team’s productivity, through more effective communication, utilization of automation tooling and reengineering team working methods and processes to incorporate agile methodology.• Expanded sphere of influence to take over responsibility for all the Information and Integration design services

Port Sunlight

Strategic visionary responsible for identifying future technology trends and defining a architectural roadmap for their adoption to best business advantageAchievements• Lead investigations into a variety of big data technologies with a focus on social media, self-service analysis, self-service integration and cloud. This has resulted in the implementation of a global multi-brand social media and sentiment analysis big data solution and the creation of self-service analytics and data mashups services.• Created and Implemented Big Data Architecture Strategy and Architected Enterprise Data Lake.

Expanded role to incorporate responsibility for Reporting and Analytics. Position now encapsulates end to end architectural authority for all BI solutionsAchievements• Perceived as a trusted advisor to both capability delivery managers and IT innovation directors, capable of providing decisive decisions and mitigations/resolutions on architecture and design decisions to meet business requirements and drive technical solutions to successful deployment• Utilization of cross industry experience to enhance and further develop BI platform to exceed business expectations

Port Sunlight

Lead Architect responsible for Data Warehousing and Integration Architecture globally. Reports directly to the Global Strategy & Technology Director for BI within the Global IT CTO’s Office and is embedded within the Global BI Centre of Excellence team (BI CoE) Core Solutions Innovation Team.Represents the CTO Office in implementing architectural strategy for Data Warehousing and Integration to integrate information and operational systems and in providing an integrated data warehousing environment across technical boundaries, business processes and functions. Ensures the delivery of agile, adaptable, resilient, cost effective architectures to an appropriate level of detail for long term future strategic direction and the satisfaction of immediate business requirementsAchievements• Identified sub-optimal design architecture and implemented architecture standards to remedy existing implementation with no negative impact to end-users and enable faster deployment on new capabilities• Developed a destination architecture road map which will reduce deployments cost and enable an aggressive capability roll out plan to be achieved as well as providing a higher level of performance • Defined an alternative architecture providing same business benefit for a much lower implementation cost.

Chorley

Have performed varied roles and achieved numerous successes whilst working within CSC’s Global Business Services (consultancy) Enterprise Intelligence division.Integration Architect responsible for creating customised integration solutions to meet each NHS trusts unique combinations of systems and business processes. Implementing solutions at Trusts involved successfully driving multiple disciplinary virtual teams as well as indirectly managing client staff. Created a £300m cost saving buy implementing a major architectural change and demonstrating its viability. Chosen for two trouble shooting teams to increase the robustness of the solution and accelerate deployment timescales. Technical Architect designing and implementing a policy viewing and analysis system for Zurich. Responsible for the successful transition of entire David Lloyd Leisure architecture from old outsourcer to new, under very difficult and challenging circumstances. Drove a virtual team of direct and indirect reports, in a variety of divisions and globally diverse locations to meet highly aggressive timescales, whilst ensuring no loss of financial or commercial data and continuity of service to the Leisure centers.Solution Architect for an information roadmap to enhance management information and to improve the efficiency of business process and validate the profitability of new products for the Royal Mail Group.Technical Architect for the design and development of a high volume data warehouse for Vodafone. Redesigned the data warehouse using dimensional modelling techniques and massively reduced query times. Solution Architect on a Management Information System delivery for Whitbread. Solution definition was complicated by rollout of solution across multiple brands to local outlet level with each brand having conflicting business rules and requirements.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Technical Consultant within Hewlett Packard’s Consulting division. Technical Manager on a worldwide Exchange upgrade and infrastructure consolidation project for Astra Zeneca. Project utilised multiple teams, subcontractors, outsourcing and overseas resources. Data Integration Architect on a B2B supply chain enterprise integration cross industry reusable framework solution. Modelling and implementing data capture processes to enable real-time reporting of transactions.Solution Integrator for a worldwide B2B ecommerce system for Lloyds managing the integration of solutions from multiple suppliers and resolving issues.Lead Technical Consultant for the construction of an ebanking solution for Yorkshire Bank using Weblogic and Oracle. XML web services were constructed to interface with legacy systems.

Technical Manager on a successful Ecommerce development for an international book seller.Lead Consultant on a number of Business Intelligence projects. Developed an in depth knowledge of ETL, dimensional modelling techniques and OLAP and used this to implement number of successful MIS and data warehousing solutions, commonly with intranet portals.

Godalming

Joined Triad as a programmer and quickly progressed through the ranks to a Lead Consultant role. Acted as a trouble-shooter for projects going over budget and/or failing user acceptance testing.Developed a variety of Client/Server, File/Server and stand-alone systems including Call-Centre, Workflow, Purchasing, Accounting and Resource Management Solutions.Managed the ongoing maintenance, support and enhancement of a purchasing system for major global corporation.

Warrington, United Kingdom

Constructed a system in DataEase for the analysis of quality metrics using the European Quality Standard as a management tool.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Aeronautical Engineering

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