Xentrall Shared Services ICTEnterprise Architect
Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2014Darlington, United KingdomSenior Architect encompassing responsibility for Architecture Programmes for Xentrall Shared Services. Senior Architect using the principles behind TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) in conjunction with PRINCE2, MSP or MoP to deliver successful outcomes and achieve organisation objectives. • Improved current and future enterprise architecture with full data flow from technologies within business and IT strategies. • Work in parallel with architects, project managers and business analysts throughout information systems to create strategy compatible with central government compliance to produce roadmaps and designs. • Influenced architectural frameworks to encompass developer life cycle approaches including Agile and Sprint. • Resolved business and technological challenges. • Managed architectural performance metrics to achieve year on year improvements. • Created and maintained of B&IT Diagrams to ensure roadmap of organisational change is achievable and there is awareness of the “big picture". • Design proof of concepts for key business systems and architecture, building business cases. highlighting costs and benefits as well as efficiency. • Evaluation of tactical decisions to ensure alignment to overall business and IT strategy. • Mapped Ownership to Business process for possible rationalisation in collaboration with key stakeholders. • Improved organisational efficiency and reduced expenditure by project managing resources across a broad spectrum of stakeholder groups. • Achieved PSN government compliance for end to end flow of data and services. • Desktop optimization Strategy (Windows 7, Exchange 2010, Active Directory and Server 2012)