Integration Practice Lead/Chief Architect
National Grid
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :19 years, 9 أشهر
• Leading programme workshops, providing quality assurance and gathering requirements to shape deliverables
• Managing complete integration CoE for data, development and integration.
• Designing As-Is and To-Be technical Integration Strategy, interface with 3rd parties
• Currently Practice lead (Lead/Chief Architect) for Data, digital Transformation, CI/CD and Integration capability.
• Migrating existing legacy applications to New Cloud Data Centres as well as new CNI Data Centres.
• Designing end to end integration solutions as part of large scale business critical programmes.
• Setting up complete CoE for CI/CD, bespoke application development & SOA, including people process and capability.
• Reviewing and approving RFI, RFP and RFQ from vendors as well as negotiating development and support contracts.
• Introducing new technologies (Salesforce, AWS, MS Dynamics, Talend, WS02 and Oracle Cloud).
• Chairing Monthly Design Authority Meetings for Data, Integration and Solution Architecture.
• Defining/ enforcing standards and principle for all designs within integration/data and solution architecture framework.
• Refining and producing the target service application map and migration plan.
• Assessing the application migration interoperability from defined plans and highlighting any risks or changes required.
• Working within extremely complex multi-vendor multi-channel agile environments.
• Defining and enforcing Integration and Data standards and principles.
• Leading complete Enterprise integration portfolio of the organisation, this includes defining business driven data and integration solutions, defining data and integration roadmaps. Delivering data and integration driven solutions.
• Defining technology roadmaps, patterns and reference architectures.
• Creating guidelines and best practices for developing, selecting, and implementing information systems within organisation.
• Ensuring all functional and non-functional requirements are met for a particular business challenge or opportunity, or any exceptions are justified, agreed with all applicable stakeholders and signed off.
• Engaging with stakeholders cross-functionally at all levels across the business to appropriately communicate relevant aspects of the architecture, to build support and to ensure architectural alignment.
• Transforming and implementing new SCADA system (XA21).
• Defining and documenting technology standards, policies, principals and the appropriate governance process to enforce them
• Working with PM’s and Programme Managers to define RFI and RFQ interviewing and selecting Vendors for Corporate functions ERP (SAP), CRM (Salesforce, MS Dynamics SAP 360), Cloud (AWS, AZURE and Salesforce), Mobile, Electricity Balancing and Electricity SCADA systems.
• Defining and delivering practical, workable, pragmatic and cost-effective solutions to stakeholders' business requirements.
• Researching, evaluating and making recommendations on new and innovative technologies that may enhance business value, create efficiencies for the company or create a competitive market advantage.
• Minimising the risk of service failure and its impact on the business by ensuring appropriate contingencies exist.
• Agreeing service levels with other departments and ensure that that they are monitored and met.
Forecasting And Order Planning), Order and Order Tracking, Multi-Channel, Commercial Work Bench Supplier
•Responsible for infrastructure services choices and selection to ensure decision making is informed by an overall impact assessment on costs, risks, quality and capability.
•Analysing developments in the infrastructure services industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.
•Developing Application Architecture principles and models (including technical guidelines and standards described in common technology models, such as components, domains, services and patterns) that can be leveraged across multiple solutions.
•Acting as a bridge' between the technical domain architects and solution architects and other subject matter experts to ensure that the technology infrastructure meets project/business goals, such as flexibility, complexity reduction, cost reduction and quick delivery.
•Integrating with 35 different systems including some legacy and mainframe systems.
•Deciding on appropriate infrastructure to be used for the deployment of the solutions eg, selection of suitable hardware.
•Translating business strategies into implementable IT strategies for the domain and ensuring that all domain strategies adhere to related Enterprise Architecture disciplines such as Information Architecture and Technology Architecture standards.
•Ensuring that solutions architectures are extensible, resilient, scalable and tuned for performance.
•Creating technology solutions to business problems that are pragmatic and supportive of the Enterprise architecture strategic direction.
•Pro-actively suggesting and engage in overall project to improve the overall deliverable for the benefit of both the National Strategies and the end users.
Lotus to Exchange (BPOS Office 365), VMWare & Hyper-V Environments, PLM Project, Transformation & Migration - SAP, SAP CRM, SAP BW, Windows XP to Windows 7, Office 2000 to Office 2007/2010, Windows Active Directory 2000- Active Directory 2008
•Defining and designing implementation solutions for migration of Lotus to Exchange (Mainly MS BPOS and Or Office 365).
•Designing and developing integration solutions using IBM WebSphere, MQ series, this includes from legacy systems to Retail systems.
•Working with regional Enterprise Architects to ensure that IT strategies being developed for the regions are aligned with Group IT strategy.
•Ensuring cross-domain requirements are identified and issues resolved, resulting in the creation of a cohesive Enterprise Roadmap.
•Tracking industry trends for the domain and escalating potential areas of exploitation as well as contributing to feasibility studies on domain specific new technologies.
•Participating in reviews of solution architectures developed by the programmes and provide governance and alignment of development program architecture to the IT strategy.
•Conducting feasibility studies for domain specific new technologies, if applicable.
•Leading reviews of solution architectures developed by the programmes.
•Driving the definition of the business Enterprise Roadmaps identifying how business requirements are met through innovative IT projects and programmes.
•Defining, developing and maintaining infrastructure strategies for desktop and user-platforms systems
•Leading the creation and maintenance of global Application, Information and Technical Enterprise Roadmaps.
•Developing and maintaining the current, future state and intermediate architecture blue prints for specific business domain.
Multiple Projects, Datacenter consolidation to Transformation, SAP, Exchange, New VMWare Environment on HP C-Blade Chasis, Consolidation of existing & designing New Citrix Farm, Legacy Applications, MS IAG, KNNAP and More.
•Consulting and implementing complex large scale HP, SUN, hosted IT environments including dual data centres.
•Implementation and management of IBM AIX Unix & HP-UX Servers with EMC disk arrays and any large scale data centre relocation/migration.
•Working with hosting and customer teams for the clients strategic data centre computing design and other technologies used are HP Superdome, Oracle 9i, 10, and SQL, BEA WebLogic and EMC with disk arrays using DMX series as well as HP XP series.
•Designing ECC 6.0 system (SAP), blueprint and time schedule for the coming implementation.
Experience of developing in PHP, Linux, MYSQL and Apache.
•Designing solutions based on MS windows 2003 Server family including Exchange 2003 & SQL as well as Linux & Apache.
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