UK HOME OFFICE

Head of Engineering | UK Home Office

Immigration and Platform · Migration and Borders Digital Portfolio · Full-time · United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Lead engineering for Immigration and Platform across product and platform teams delivering critical public services, with responsibility for engineering excellence, delivery assurance, technical governance and capability development.
• Led development of a formally agreed engineering strategy for Immigration, covering approximately 2,000 engineers, defining the target state and transition roadmap; now progressing implementation and communication planning.
• Build engineering standards and compliance processes to support the target state and consistent delivery assurance.
• Led engineering delivery of several redesigned cloud-native services into production, replacing legacy BPM capabilities and decoupling services from monolithic designs. Reduced incidents and running costs, improved recovery and event replay, and accelerated deployment and delivery.
• Lead agentic engineering and AI enablement across the software development lifecycle, with an ongoing rollout to more than 2,000 engineers.
• Investigate how AI-enabled engineering can support fixed-price delivery outcomes with suppliers.

ACCENTURE UK

Full Stack Engineering Senior Manager | Accenture UK

Engagements include UK Home Office, Tesco Bank, NHS Test & Trace and Entain

• Served as Person Product Platform Engineering Lead for the UK Home Office, overseeing the design, build and deployment of cloud-native modernisation initiatives including Person Summary, Person API and Person Search.
• Directed cross-cutting engineering teams and collaborated with business stakeholders, solution architects and delivery partners to deliver secure, scalable and high-performing platforms underpinning critical public services.
• Provided architecture, security and IAM leadership across complex programmes, including critical national infrastructure and regulated banking environments.
• Owned software-delivery planning and execution, aligning engineering priorities, security, compliance and delivery roadmaps with business and regulatory requirements.
• Championed Agile, Scrum, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and code quality, while mentoring engineers and embedding continuous learning.

ONTHEMARKET.COM (COSTAR GROUP)

Development Operations Manager | OnTheMarket.com

• Led platform, operations and engineering modernisation for a property-search service operating at hundreds of millions of searches per month.
• Directed zero-downtime migration of critical services to AWS Elastic Container Service and introduced containerisation for faster, consistent deployment.
• Migrated search capabilities to AWS Managed OpenSearch and improved static-asset delivery through a new CDN.
• Implemented cross-region networking and database replication to support high availability and a 99.97% service-availability target.
• Established security and compliance controls through Cloud Custodian automation and worked with the CTO and stakeholders on sustainable growth and cost optimisation.

SAGE UK LIMITED

Live Services Specialist | Sage UK Limited

• Helped lead DevOps transformation and cloud-architecture strategy for financial-services products, including Sage UK's first FCA-approved cloud payments service, Sage Payments.
• Led development across Payslips Solution, Real-Time Tax Exchange, OpenBankingLedger Aggregator and Integrated Payments System.
• Designed scalable, highly available cloud architectures and advanced deployment pipelines, automated testing and continuous integration.
• Coordinated across engineering and business teams to deliver secure, reliable products aligned with commercial and regulatory goals.

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

Application Systems Analyst | Newcastle University

• Led cross-functional teams delivering business-critical IT solutions with a focus on compliance, security and operational efficiency.
• Managed PRINCE2 and Agile projects covering visa compliance, endpoint protection and PCI compliance.
• Conducted feasibility studies, cost analysis and process mapping, then designed systems meeting regulatory and service-delivery requirements.

KARBON HOMES HOUSING ASSOCIATION

Systems Analyst (Infrastructure) | Karbon Homes

• Managed infrastructure stability, security and performance; strengthened network protection and improved service reliability through proactive monitoring and maintenance.

ROYAL AIR FORCE

RAF Regiment Gunner | RAuxAF 603 Squadron

• Served as a Regiment Gunner in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.