Principal Technical Consultant & Solution Architect (February 2023 – January 2025) Education Industry

Project 1

• Led the technical design and delivery of a secure data-sharing platform for research, using React (Azure Static Web Apps), Laravel (Azure Container Apps), and MySQL (Azure Flexible Server).
• Built CI/CD pipeline with GitLab and defined infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Established monitoring framework with Azure Log Analytics to track system health.
• Defined the project roadmap, optimizing scope to meet deadlines and enable future features.
• Implemented security controls to ensure authorized access to sensitive data, working closely with the project sponsor to align with business priorities.

Project 2

• Led design and delivery of a student-centric data insights platform using a Medallion data architecture, deployed on Azure with Azure SQL, Static Web Apps, and Azure Functions.
• Defined technical architecture and ensured alignment with the trust’s strategic vision, working closely with executives and SMEs.
• Drove requirements gathering, translating business needs into technical user stories and solution designs.
• Designed a flexible solution with buy-vs-build options, evaluating third-party integrations against key business and technical criteria.
• Identified and mitigated risks, including a critical third-party API dependency, using technical spikes to quantify impact and shape contingency plans.
• Created and maintained comprehensive solution documentation; C4 diagrams and data models.
• Improved delivery approach by championing a user-centric workflow, influencing stakeholders to adopt a more transparent and iterative development process.

Lead Technical Consultant (October 2015 – February 2023) – NHS Service Provider

Project 1

• Led design and implementation through to go-live of a national-scale API for secure patient record sharing, focusing on interoperability with FHIR resources and standardised code sets.
• Guided multiple suppliers through technical onboarding, enhancing usability and adoption along the way.
• Navigated NHS governance to secure API approval, enabling Ambulance Trusts to access mental health crisis plans nationwide.
• Optimized supplier onboarding, adapting API design to ease implementation and address the competing XDS standard and devising a clear API documentation approach.

Project 2

• Streamlined genomic test ordering and designed FHIR-based APIs to improve workflow efficiency and compliance with standard test ordering workflows.
• Championed interoperability by introducing an anti-corruption layer, enabling legacy HL7 v2 lab systems to transition towards FHIR with minimal disruption.
• Influenced key stakeholders (NHS lab staff, suppliers, and governance teams) to drive adoption of simplified ordering workflow and reduce clinical workflow inefficiencies.
• Led a proof-of-concept demonstrating successful end-to-end integration between suppliers and NHS infrastructure.
• Addressed data privacy concerns (GDPR) by refining test order workflows to collect essential patient data.

Project 3

• Designed a secure, event-driven Azure service to automate the generation and distribution of NHS COVID Pass letters.
• Ensured compliance with GDPR and NHS data governance regulations.
• Facilitated cross-team collaboration, aligning service managers, platform engineers, and delivery teams within a complex supplier ecosystem.
• Designed a scalable solution to handle variable demand while ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR, NHS governance) and SLAs around letter fulfilment timescales.

Project 4

• Designed & implemented an automated reporting system to support Hep C treatment funding, integrating data from hospital systems, including the Allscripts Sunrise EPR using HL7 v2 ADT & ORU messages.
• Led the implementation & NHS approval of a Java-based Spine Mini Services Provider (SMSP), enabling seamless patient demographic lookups within KCH’s admission workflow.
• Led the NHS Digital SCAL approval process for the SMSP implementation, ensuring compliance with Spine’s PDS API security & governance standards.
• Integrated the SMSP into KCH’s admission workflow using HL7 v2 ADT messaging, improving patient record accuracy and reducing manual data entry.

Project 5

• Delivered a scalable and resilient rostering & time-recording system for 9,000+ Border Force staff across 140 locations, using Java microservices, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders to prioritize technical risk, ensuring mitigation of critical issues.
• Created documentation including C4 architecture diagrams to document service relationships, data contracts, and integration points.
• Led knowledge-sharing workshops, improving team alignment and onboarding for new engineers.

Project 6

• Played a key role in large-scale public sector bids within the NHS.
• Developed solution architectures, demonstrating how proposed technologies would meet client needs, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to produce tailored technical proposals following the feature, benefit, proof approach, ensuring responses were compelling, technically robust, and aligned with compliance frameworks like GDPR and NHS guidelines.

For further information on this candidate please use reference number: 022