Richard Harris Email & Phone Number

Nw9 5Ll, London, England, United Kingdom

Part of the Large Objects Conservation team helping conserve the museum's 50+ aircraft with inspections, minor repairs, maintenance and keeping them looking clean and safe for our visitors to enjoy and learn from.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Technical liaison between development teams and technical teams such as Wintel, Storage, DBA, Networks and Information Security.• Member of the Vulnerability Management forum, Engineering Lead Forum, Outdated Terminology Forum• Technical lead for all Market EDM systems.• Creation of system monitoring tools to assist Production and Test Environment management to quickly identify issues.• Engineering Lead for a SaaS (NoCode) implementation including SSO and IP Allow lists via the IDP and automated group membership via SAML and release procedures• Responsible for deriving and implementing the security requirements in conjunction with Global Access Design and Information Security and create toolsets to manage the creation of security profiles, tasks, and services.• Creation of toolsets to assist in analysis of system performance and throughput and to assist developers in building and managing services, scheduled tasks, and integration into MQ.• Assist with Information Security processes.• Provide technical guidance on use of SQL server (in conjunction with DBAs) and assist with investigations on issues, performance, and stored procedures.• Drive adoption of Memory Optimized objects and System Versioning in SQL Server allowing better performance and data audit without any additional development effort.• Creation of supporting environment agnostic and self-determining management scripts• Derive standards for interfacing, control, error reporting and resilient coding.• Design the infrastructure setup for sever builds and HA resilience in conjunction with Wintel and DBAs.• Key role in the Design of the technical solution for Security Master replacement system including full data lineage and version history.• Technical design for data cleansing all external data feeds as part of the company wide project to integrate BRS Aladdin into Schroders using federated approach allowing flexibility in control of the environment for future growth and load balancing.

Solutions Architecture and IT Consultancy

London, United Kingdom

Markit EDM Upgrades• Technical lead on large Markit EDM upgrade project from v6 to v8. This was a significant piece of work encompassing all infrastructure associated with the implementation to cover physical server upgrades, migration of certificates and trusted connections, OS upgrades, Database upgrades and external connectivity for Production, DR, all test environments and development.• Migrated interfaces to/from over 40 external and internal data providers and consumers including systems such as Charles River, Bloomberg and Rimes using Messaging, File feeds, and direct DB access • Designed and built mechanisms to allow side-by-side regression testing between the new and old systems by splitting interfaces where external feeds have only a single touch point and subsequently managed the test environments to ensure maximum up-time and correct job sequencing for scripted tests run by the test team.Batch Re-Engineering (16 Month Project)• Design and Technical lead to redesign the Cadis overnight batch systems to enable simultaneous processing of multiple back offices through the system thus reducing overall batch processing times and delivering a more responsive and efficient overnight processing model without the constraints of the existing sequential batch.• Redesigned all batch control scheduled jobs, their interdependencies and all batch control code. Coded all batch processes and incorporated configuration based tuning and full system logging providing both flexibility and enhanced supportability.• Produced all training material and provided training to support teams across the globe.Other• Instrumental in implementing stricter test environment controls and better management of the environment.• Provided QA, governance and code reviews

Managed the Systems Analysis and Architecture team. We were responsible for architecting technical solutions for the business and managing the company’s Architecture Principles and practices, running Architecture Governance Forum. We had also started to implement TOGAF as the company’s framework.

Various roles for several clients. These ranged from major programes of work spanning multiple years to major developments in VBA for a large MS Excel based system.

The architect role covered everything from solution design to standards generation, programming assistance and general technical support in many diverse areas. I was also extensively involved in governance and Quality Assurance rulings and provided core application infrastructure components such as the separate systems mechanisms and many generic systems tools and solutions for use by the developers.