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Amin Mohammed-Coleman

Stafford,Staffordshire

Summary

Senior Director and Solutions Architect with 20+ years of experience architecting large-scale distributed systems for financial services and UK Government. Expert in enterprise platform architecture, cloud-native microservices, workflow and decision systems, and emerging AI-enabled architectures.

Combines hands-on engineering expertise in Java, reactive systems, and cloud platforms with a strong focus on leveraging AI and automation to enhance digital services, improve operational efficiency, and enable data-driven decision making.

Trusted technical leader experienced in mentoring teams, establishing architectural governance, and delivering reusable platforms and self-service capabilities that accelerate innovation at scale.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Senior Director – Solutions Architect

BNY
2025.04 - 2026.03
  • Lead the architecture and development of shared platform capabilities within the Foundational Framework, enabling scalable and reusable services across multiple engineering teams.
  • Designed and delivered a central workflow platform to standardise orchestration of business processes across enterprise applications.
  • Architected and implemented a central decision service providing consistent rule execution and decision management across distributed systems.
  • Built Workflow and Decision Designer tools enabling developers and non-technical users to visually design, prototype and execute workflows and DMN models.
  • Enabled rapid prototyping and self-service capabilities for delivery teams, reducing reliance on specialist engineering resources.
  • Established architectural patterns, reusable components and integration standards to support the industrialisation of platform services.
  • Worked closely with engineering teams and product stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable platform solutions.
  • Provided architectural governance and technical leadership to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and long-term platform strategy.

Technical Lead - Asset & Wealth Management

Goldman Sachs
Stockholm
2021.12 - 2025.04
  • Designed and built the first micro-frontend UI for data reconciliation, improving modularity and deployment independence.
  • Promoted a contract-driven approach to REST API design, improving consistency and integration across services.
  • Provided architectural guidance for reactive microservices built with RxJava and Vert.x.

Contract Technical Architect

UK Home Office
2017.10 - 2021.05
  • Achieved successful design and implementation of UK Border Force centralised operations platform.
  • Delivered a robust BF operations platform through effective Docker image development.
  • Realised deployment efficiency on Kubernetes cluster within AWS UK.
  • Ensured compliance with security standards for cloud-based microservices architecture.
  • Enabled secure authentication by Dockerising Camunda BPMN and integrating with Keycloak.
  • Established microservices architecture security through OAuth 2.0 implementation.
  • Streamlined resource loading processes for BPMN, CMMN, DMN from Git during container initialisation.
  • Established a cohesive form and process modelling tool that enhanced BF operations.

Optimised operations by introducing Camunda BPM engine and Form.io.

Elevated architectural standards through regular reviews for BF Technical Design Authority.

Enhanced project outcomes by providing application design and architecture guidance to Home Office projects.

Software Developer

Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLP
2017.03 - 2017.10

Contract Developer at American Express and HMRC

Equal Experts
2015.10 - 2016.12

Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Goldman Sachs
2015.01 - 2015.07

Senior Digital Developer/Technical Architect

Government Digital Services
2014.07 - 2015.01

Java Integration Architect

M&G Asset Management
2014.04 - 2014.06

Technical Lead (VP)

Goldman Sachs
2013.01 - 2014.03

Solutions Architect

Qatarlyst Ltd
2012.07 - 2013.01

Technical Lead (VP)

Goldman Sachs
2010.01 - 2012.07

Senior Java EE Developer

RI3K
2007.09 - 2010.01

Java Developer

Morgan Stanley
2006.09 - 2007.09

Education

BSc (Hons) - Software Engineering

University of Brighton

Skills

  • Java and Groovy
  • Nodejs
  • Spring framework
  • JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • EIP implementations
  • ORM technologies
  • Elasticsearch and Lucene
  • Hibernate Search and Logstash
  • JBPM and Camunda
  • BPMN 20, CMMN, DMN
  • Drools rules engine
  • PostgreSQL, DB2, MySQL, H2, Flyway
  • RESTful APIs
  • XML technologies
  • Distributed caching solutions
  • JBoss, Tomcat, GlassFish
  • JUnit and Mockito

Core Expertise

  • Enterprise & Platform Architecture
  • Cloud-Native Systems (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Microservices & Reactive Systems (RxJava, Vert.x)
  • Workflow & Decision Platforms (Camunda, BPMN, DMN)
  • API Design & Integration (RESTful, Contract-Driven)
  • Technical Leadership & Mentoring
  • Agile, TDD, BDD, Scrum Master
  • Financial Services & Government Platforms

Certification

  • Scala
  • AWS Technical Essentials
  • Developing with AWS
  • Cloudera Apache Hadoop Training
  • Scrum Master Certification
  • Elastic Search and Logstash

Timeline

Senior Director – Solutions Architect

BNY
2025.04 - 2026.03

Technical Lead - Asset & Wealth Management

Goldman Sachs
2021.12 - 2025.04

Contract Technical Architect

UK Home Office
2017.10 - 2021.05

Software Developer

Arrowgrass Capital Partners LLP
2017.03 - 2017.10

Contract Developer at American Express and HMRC

Equal Experts
2015.10 - 2016.12

Software Engineer/Tech Lead

Goldman Sachs
2015.01 - 2015.07

Senior Digital Developer/Technical Architect

Government Digital Services
2014.07 - 2015.01

Java Integration Architect

M&G Asset Management
2014.04 - 2014.06

Technical Lead (VP)

Goldman Sachs
2013.01 - 2014.03

Solutions Architect

Qatarlyst Ltd
2012.07 - 2013.01

Technical Lead (VP)

Goldman Sachs
2010.01 - 2012.07

Senior Java EE Developer

RI3K
2007.09 - 2010.01

Java Developer

Morgan Stanley
2006.09 - 2007.09

BSc (Hons) - Software Engineering

University of Brighton
Amin Mohammed-Coleman