Christopher Edwards
Chester,Flintshire
Summary
Experienced Principal Architect with a strong background in managing complex projects and delivering innovative cloud solutions. Skilled in translating business requirements into effective technical strategies while ensuring compliance and optimising costs. Proven ability to enhance organisational growth through collaboration and strategic planning.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Principal Architect
Mony Group PLC
Manchester, Greater Manchester
2022.10 - Current
- Translated complex business requirements into efficient technical solutions, improving project delivery timelines.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive AWS landing zone architecture across 100s of accounts, enhancing operational efficiency and through workload isolation
- Redesigned cloud networking to incorporate egress filtering, zero trust, and network segmentation.
- Developed an automated control framework to ensure compliance with industry standards, reducing risk and improving governance.
- Created comprehensive reference documentation and conducted workshops to promote cloud-native best practices within the organisation.
- Supported development initiatives that significantly improved team productivity and project outcomes.
- Balanced operational and capital expenditure effectively.
- Re-architected legacy event system to manage billions of events annually using cloud-first paradigms.
Technical Lead - Data Services
Mony group PLC
Manchester, Greater Manchester
2021.08 - 2022.10
- Led operational management of data storage across multiple functions
- Streamlined complex data access, lifecycle, and auditing requirements.
- Delivered workshops and best practices for efficient data utilisation.
- Optimised costs and consolidated usage to enhance capacity and reduce expenditure.
DevOps Engineer
Mony Group PLC
Ewloe, Flintshire
2017.07 - 2021.08
- Facilitated transition of legacy workloads to AWS by collaborating with development teams.
- Accelerated organisational shift to containers and microservices through Kubernetes and Helm.
- Enhanced CI/CD tooling across departments to streamline development processes.
- Managed diverse databases and caching tools to optimise performance.
- Implemented private networking between cloud providers, partners, and on-premise solutions.
Junior java developer
Intilliery Ltd
Chester, Cheshire
2015.09 - 2017.07
- Developed user-friendly software applications by understanding and identifying client needs.
- Collaborated in team-based projects, resulting in successful product launches.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion 2012.09 - 2015.05
Skills
- AWS architecture and cloud infrastructure
- Cloud networking and event-driven systems
- Cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Cloud-native solutions
- Security tools and best practices,
- Technical documentation and requirements gathering
- Programming languages: Python, Go, Java
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, CDK, Puppet
Certification
- 12x AWS Certified (All active)
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Principal Architect
Mony Group PLC
2022.10 - Current
Technical Lead - Data Services
Mony group PLC
2021.08 - 2022.10
DevOps Engineer
Mony Group PLC
2017.07 - 2021.08
Junior java developer
Intilliery Ltd
2015.09 - 2017.07
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Aberystwyth University
2012.09 - 2015.05