Description

Solutions Architect with 25+ years of experience designing and modernising business-critical systems for financial institutions and global enterprises. Architects cloud, integration, data and AI-enabled solutions across Azure, AWS and hybrid environments. Combines strategic architecture with hands-on PoC validation, helping clients move from discovery and technology selection through to production-ready designs. Particularly experienced in regulated, real-time and data-intensive environments, stakeholder alignment and complex legacy modernisation.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Italian
Basic
Chinese
Basic
German
Basic

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

London (up to 50km)

Financial Markets Publication
Independent Consultant
PRESS AND MEDIA
February 2026 - Today (5 months)
London, United Kingdom
Building an AWS-based AI pipeline for automated article and market data ingestion, classification, relevance scoring and filtering of online articles through LLM-based analysis
Defining the event-driven processing architecture, services, data flows, human review workflows, security, Terraform infrastructure as code, deployment model
AWS Lambda Terraform LLM AWS Bedrock
Kantar Worldpanel
Senior Solutions Architect
RESEARCH
April 2019 - January 2026 (6 years and 9 months)
London, United Kingdom
• • Defined the target architecture for a global market-research data platform spanning mobile, web, integration, data processing and AI services; aligned product, engineering and business stakeholders around the architecture roadmap
• • Led two architects to validate key decisions through PoCs using .NET, Azure, Document Intelligence, Language, AI Search and OpenAI services
• • Led the migration to Azure of an externally acquired application
• • Drove enterprise-wide visibility across a landscape of more than 200 applications via LeanIX reporting and Power BI dashboards, supporting investment prioritisation and technical-debt reduction
• • Influenced product direction and usability, improving adoption and business alignment by advising business analysts and programme managers
• • Upskilled teams in cloud and DevOps practices, shortening delivery lifecycle and increasing the autonomy of IT staff
Microsoft Azure IT Architecture C# Terraform Azure DevOps
BJSS (now CGI)
Technical Architect
DIGITAL AND IT
November 2018 - February 2019 (3 months)
London, United Kingdom
Designed the Cloud architecture for a major UK academic institution integrating disparate systems (Salesforce, Moodle, AWS), automating workflows and delivered a PoC proving feasibility and validating technology choices to the client
Moodle Salesforce AWS PHP Apex