Technical Lead, Solutions Architect and Business Systems Analyst

Technical leader trusted to own architecture and delivery from discovery through to live operations. Experienced at bridging business and engineering teams, modernising legacy platforms, and delivering secure, scalable systems that organisations can run with confidence.

Technical Leadership CI/CD & DevOps AI & Automation SQL Server Optimisation REST & Regulatory Integrations Geolocation Services Azure • Microsoft 365 • SharePoint Agile / Waterfall / RAD

Trusted for

  • Clarity from ambiguity: leading discovery, shaping technical roadmaps, and defining measurable outcomes.
  • Operational uplift: removing manual steps, improving accuracy, and shortening feedback loops.
  • Resilient delivery: CI/CD pipeline design, testing, documentation, and close DevOps collaboration.
  • Stakeholder confidence: transparent trade-offs, compliant by design, accessible by default.

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AI, Automation & Intelligent Workflows

Approach

Designed for operational use: explainable outputs, human-in-the-loop controls, and auditability built in from day one.

What I deliver

  • Document and email triage, enrichment, and summarisation (PII-aware pipelines).
  • Assisted UIs: suggestions, guided flows, accessible autocomplete.
  • Privacy-first integrations with clear guardrails and fallbacks.

Integration & governance

  • REST-based AI services • prompt and output capture for QA, monitoring, and drift detection.
  • Data minimisation • role-based access • versioning & audit trails.
  • Operational dashboards to monitor value, accuracy, and exceptions.

Impact

  • Lower handling times and error rates across admin-heavy processes.
  • Faster case resolution via AI-aided summaries and decision support.

Business Analysis & Product Discovery

Strengths

  • Translating executive objectives into actionable technical designs and delivery plans.
  • Process mapping (BPMN), service design workshops, stakeholder alignment.
  • Roadmaps, KPIs/OKRs, thin-slice delivery with measurable outcomes.
  • Compliance & accessibility (WCAG 2.2) from day one.

Tooling

  • Jira, Confluence, Azure Boards • Microsoft 365 (Excel/Power Query), Power BI.
  • Miro, Figma (flows & wireframes) • Strong documentation standards.

Recent outcomes

  • Re-engineered processes in renewables to cut overhead and speed throughput.
  • Embedded intelligent automation to remove manual steps and reduce errors.

Software Engineering & Integration

Focus

Clean, maintainable software and integrations, with clear architectural ownership, testing, documentation, and CI/CD for smooth operations.

Languages & frameworks

  • JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, .NET.
  • Classic ASP (legacy uplift), Uniface, COBOL (development & migration).

Integration

  • REST/JSON and enterprise/regulatory APIs (e.g. DVLA, Environment Agency).
  • Geolocation services • performance-conscious mapping UX.

Delivery

  • Secure SDLC • code reviews • pragmatic testing • CI/CD enablement & handover.

Database Architecture & SQL Server

Specialism

  • SQL Server architecture, advanced tuning, indexing and partitioning, performance troubleshooting, and optimisation strategy.
  • Resilient migrations • data quality & lineage.

Reporting & pipelines

  • SSRS / SSIS • Power BI (semantic models) • protect transactional systems.
  • Operational dashboards & alerting with clear ownership.

Cloud, Microsoft 365 & Administration

Overview

  • Azure & Microsoft 365 administration • SharePoint solutions.
  • Workflow automation with Power Automate.
  • Identity & SSO patterns • access control • auditability.

Typical outcomes

  • Streamlined approvals, reduced swivel-chair work, better governance.
  • Confident access management with minimal friction for users.

Career Highlights & Selected Projects

Environmental / Waste Management

Architected a compliance-led platform with full auditability, enabling regulatory adherence, productivity gains, and business growth.

Renewable Energy

Applied Domain-Driven Design to restructure workflows, automate systems, and improve operational throughput.

Logistics (Securicor, DHL)

Led legacy migrations, enterprise-scale integrations, and managed technical teams delivering business-critical solutions.