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Neil Rawson (PMP)
London
Summary
Transformation and programme leadership experience has been developed over more than two decades, with recent senior contract and permanent roles across financial services, insurance and enterprise technology, including London Stock Exchange, DXC Technology, Zurich Insurance and Deutsche Bank. Expertise includes large-scale transformation, public cloud strategy, application modernization, legacy re-platforming, migration delivery, governance, budget and commercial oversight, risk management, stakeholder alignment and operational delivery, with particular focus on AWS and Google Cloud Platform within complex enterprise environments. Career progression reflects sustained responsibility for directing cloud-first and market data transformation programmes, supporting seamless client transitions, establishing repeatable migration patterns and enabling ongoing cloud adoption and service continuity across global and customer-facing teams.
Overview
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1
Certification
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Programme Director - Financial Services
Consulting Professionals Ltd
London, United Kingdom
10.2025 - Current
- Directing strategic re-platforming efforts to upgrade legacy market data distribution service, ensuring seamless transition for 60+ clients in Asia Pacific region.
- Executed infrastructure modernization initiatives utilizing HPE Synergy software-defined networking to enhance operational efficiency.
- Managing all aspects of programme delivery, focusing on governance, financial integrity, risk mitigation, and stakeholder collaboration within global operations and customer-facing teams.
- Driving efforts in platform standardization, focusing on improving scalability and reducing time to market by integrating lessons learned from previous large-scale projects.
Cloud Migration Director
DXC Technology
London, United Kingdom
09.2024 - 10.2025
- Directed all DXC transformation project activities for Zurich Insurance’s ‘cloud first’ strategy, with a primary focus on application modernisation and migration to public cloud (AWS).
- Oversaw cloud-related opportunities across the account, ensuring alignment between transformation initiatives, delivery objectives and operational requirements.
- Held accountability for the delivery and ongoing operations of cloud transformation programmes within a complex enterprise environment.
- Enabled strategic cloud adoption by leading transformation activity that supported modernisation goals and advanced public cloud capability across the organisation.
Cloud Transformation Programme Manager
DXC Technology
London
03.2022 - 11.2024
- Supported a leading European Tier 1 investment banking client to commence and accelerate the transformation of IT architecture to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Delivered technical programme management for the migration and modernisation of business application workloads to Google Cloud.
- Established repeatable migration processes and patterns to accelerate further cloud migration efforts planned from 2022 onwards.
- Enabled the bank’s ongoing cloud journey by supporting a scalable transformation approach aligned with longer-term IT modernisation objectives.
Programme Manager (Staff Augmentation)
Google
London
01.2021 - 03.2022
- Delivered staff augmentation support to Google Professional Services Organisation (PSO) for a Tier 1 European investment bank under a strategic, multi-year Google Cloud partnership.
- Led the objective to re-architect 25 pioneer applications at pace, supporting the bank’s transition to Google Cloud.
- Drove modernisation of application estates to exploit Google Cloud native services and enable co-innovation of new products and services.
- Established repeatable, scalable migration pathways to support wide delivery partner-led migrations in subsequent years.
Program Manager
DXC Technology
London
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Led and delivered a global VMWare vSphere Hypervisor upgrade programme for a European investment banking client, ensuring successful execution of a complex, large-scale infrastructure initiative.
- Recovered the programme from a ‘deep red’ commercially deadlocked position to a successful outcome, with the turnaround recognised by board-level stakeholders.
- Enabled DXC Technology to meet its contractual technology refresh obligations while restoring client confidence in the organisation’s ability to deliver complex programmes to aggressive schedules.
- Delivered the successful migration of 28000+ virtual server workloads to new Hypervisors, representing about 60% of the bank’s IT infrastructure, with no disruption to business operations despite a challenging external environment.
Project/Program Manager
Deutsche Bank
London
08.2009 - 04.2019
- Working for a European investment bank (Deutsche Bank) on a rolling contract. I performed a vast number of project delivery roles over a 9 year period before accepting a employee position with DXC Technology.
- My roles include global process governance of infrastructure provisioning teams delivery and oversight of infrastructure programs. Supporting the Deutsche Bank in the outsourcing of IT operations to HPE (now DXC Technology).
Project Manager / Transition
BP
London
05.2008 - 08.2009
- Managed the transition of BP’s European Mega Data Centre operations to Hewlett Packard under a 5 year contract valued at $250m, supporting objectives to reduce costs, improve service capability and lower operational risk.
- Coordinated with HP Transition Project and Programme Managers to ensure smooth service take-on and successful transition of services to broader offshore delivery capabilities in Brazil, India, Malaysia and the US.
- Provided assurance to BP management and stakeholders that the programme was being delivered in accordance with company-specific policies and procedures.
- Ensured alignment of transition activities with ITIL, SoX, CVP and other internal control frameworks to support governance, compliance and risk management
Operations Consultant / Project Manager
BP
London
12.2004 - 05.2008
- Provide services into the newly formed project management team in BP's Global Operations & Infrastructure (GOI) division. Responsibilities included end to end delivery of large scale infrastructure oil trading projects. Working alongside oil and gas trading applications development project managers to deliver and take into operational support highly available business critical applications
- This diverse role covered the initial engagement, planning, solution design, procurement, delivery, operational acceptance testing, release management, go-live, early life support, and finalizing full operational support.
- The role was later modified and rebranded ‘Operations Consultant’ to reflect the importance of bringing the applications and infrastructure
Graduate Trainee
CSC
Aldershot
03.2000 - 12.2004
- Graduate with CSC, various roles.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems / Business Management
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, OXF05-2000
John Hampden Grammar School
High Wycombe05-1994
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- Conflict Resolution
- Problem Solving
- Adaptability
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Communication
- Transformation
- Customer Service
- Ability to Work Under Pressure
- Ability to Work in a Team
- Communication Skills
- Program Management Techniques
- Problem Solving Skills
- Leadership Skills
- Cloud Delivery
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Relationship building
- Strategic planning
- Verbal and written communication
- Decision-making
- Safe Hands
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification, Google, May 2024
- Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification, Google, April 2024
- Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification, Google, November 2022
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS, March 2024
Interests
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
French
Full Professional
Spanish
Limited Working
Timeline
Programme Director - Financial Services
Consulting Professionals Ltd
10.2025 - Current
Cloud Migration Director
DXC Technology
09.2024 - 10.2025
Cloud Transformation Programme Manager
DXC Technology
03.2022 - 11.2024
Programme Manager (Staff Augmentation)
Google
01.2021 - 03.2022
Program Manager
DXC Technology
04.2019 - 12.2020
Project/Program Manager
Deutsche Bank
08.2009 - 04.2019
Project Manager / Transition
BP
05.2008 - 08.2009
Operations Consultant / Project Manager
BP
12.2004 - 05.2008
Graduate Trainee
CSC
03.2000 - 12.2004
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems / Business Management
Oxford Brookes University
John Hampden Grammar School