
Results-driven leader with expertise in agile delivery and scrum methodologies within banking and financial services. Experienced in programme and project leadership, stakeholder engagement, and team mentoring. Specialises in solution design, governance, and vendor-client relationships. Technical skills include Microsoft Azure, .NET Core, C#, SQL Server, and DevOps practices. Focused on driving innovation in risk and compliance solutions to enhance financial services platforms.
Currently performing multiple roles across programme, spanning IT Project Lead, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Technical Business Analyst (TBA), and Lead Developer responsibilities. Accountable for end-to-end delivery of PRA and FCA regulatory reporting solutions, combining project management, stakeholder engagement, requirements analysis, solution architecture, and technical leadership.
Key Projects
Bank Of England and Financial Reporting
Led design and ongoing delivery of Bank of England regulatory reporting platform covering FINREP, COREP, and PRA liquidity returns. Architected scalable data lake and regulatory data mart solution to automate statutory reporting submissions to PRA and FCA, ensuring compliance with Bank of England reporting standards. Implemented end-to-end data lineage, reconciliation frameworks, and validation controls to strengthen data quality, auditability, and regulatory transparency.
Enterprise Data Platform
Working as Technical Business Analyst on an Enterprise Data Platform programme, supporting migration of data from on-premise Oracle databases to cloud-based Data Lake. Collaborating with stakeholders across Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Operations to gather and translate business and regulatory requirements into technical specifications. Working closely with onsite and offshore teams, coordinating delivery activities, clarifying requirements, and ensuring effective handover between development and testing streams. Working with Solution Architects and Data Engineering teams to define source-to-target mappings, data flows, and transformation logic for migration. Supporting testing and UAT to ensure migrated data is accurate, complete, and compliant with FCA and PRA regulatory reporting requirements.
Project Unity
Led design and development of enhancements and partial rewrite of an existing regulatory reporting platform to incorporate capital markets data. The programme focused on extending existing architecture to support merging and standardisation of capital market products into unified data view for downstream regulatory and risk reporting.
Delivered improvements to data integration and transformation layers, enabling consistent representation of complex financial instruments across multiple source systems. Enhanced third-party integrations and existing data pipelines to support expanded coverage for Securities Financing Transactions (SFT), credit risk, market risk, RWA (Risk-Weighted Assets), and leverage reporting in line with FCA/PRA regulatory requirements.
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Key Responsibilities
Technology
MS Project, JIRA, Power BI, VISIO, DevOps, Azure, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Azure Data Lake, Kafka, .NET Core, C#, SQL Server, REST APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, WPF, VISIO, Azure DevOps
Worked as a Technical Project Lead, delivering complex digital transformation programmes across the Insurance and Financial Services sectors, with responsibility for stakeholder management, Agile design and delivery, and cross-functional team leadership.
Key Projects
Saga Savings Platform
Designed and led the delivery of the Saga Savings platform integration with Goldman Sachs’ Marcus platform, acting as the sole point of contact for client engagement and driving end-to-end technical delivery. Architected a scalable data lake solution to support growth, performance, and operational resilience across the integration.
Motor, Home & Travel Insurance Platforms
Delivered innovative digital solutions and system enhancements across insurance quotation, pricing, and policy administration platforms, improving customer journeys and streamlining end-to-end business processes.
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Key Responsibilities
Technology
Provided architectural leadership across CRM, finance management, and customer acquisition platforms, including the redesign of legacy desktop applications into modern .NET-based services with Angular JS front-end applications. Delivered scalable N-tier architecture solutions to improve performance, maintainability, and extensibility. Led the development of responsive tablet and mobile applications, enabling consistent cross-device user experience and supporting enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.
Key Achievements
Technology
Azure, C#, WPF, MVC, SQL Server, Angular, Power BI, REST APIs, Dapper, Dev Express, PayPal, Sage
Provided architectural leadership across CRM, finance management, and customer acquisition platforms, including the redesign of legacy desktop applications into modern .NET-based services with Angular JS front-end applications. Delivered scalable N-tier architecture solutions to improve performance, maintainability, and extensibility. Led the development of responsive tablet and mobile applications, enabling consistent cross-device user experience and supporting enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives.
Key Achievements
Technology
C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, WPF, WCF, Angular JS, SSRS, SSIS, TDD
Progressed from Software Developer to Team Lead and Project Lead, combining strong technical expertise with proven delivery leadership. Managed onsite and offshore teams of up to 30 resources, delivering enterprise solutions for clients including IRIS Legal, BT Expedite, and Not-for-Profit CRM platforms. Experienced in stakeholder management, client engagement, Agile delivery, team leadership, and successful execution of complex technology programmes.
Technology
VC++, C++, .NET, WPF, WCF, SOAP, COM, .C#, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, MS Project, TFS
Firmware developer responsible for developing software applications on handheld terminals for leading parcel sorting and delivery company. Worked as part of team of 10, contributing to UI design, backend service development, and flat-file database modelling.
Technology
Microsoft VC++, Windows CE, BTrieve database, Source safe
Learn and Develop client-server applications and digital imaging solutions using Visual C++, SQL Server, and messaging technologies. Responsible for implementing software components for large-format image printing firmware and applications, supporting image processing workflows and integration with printing hardware systems. Contributed to development of reliable, high-performance modules for commercial printing environments.
Technology
VC++, MFC, VB6, MS Access, COM