Contractor snapshot
Primary specialism
Project & Programme Management
Location / working location
Milton Keynes
Current availability
Available within 2 weeks
Confirmed 2 Sep 2026
Profile status
Active contractor profile
Professional profile
Senior technology transformation and programme delivery leader with 19+ years across insurance, banking, fintech, digital commerce and enterprise AI. I lead complex multi-workstream programmes from mobilisation and roadmap definition through governance, delivery assurance, operational readiness. Recent work spans enterprise AI enablement, AI/GPU platform delivery, engineering-platform modernisation, cloud transformation, cybersecurity remediation, resilience and legacy-estate reduction. Delivered more than $1M in annualised technology savings, identified a further approximately $2M optimisation opportunity and reduced a legacy vulnerability backlog from approximately 47,000 to 543 within six months while maintaining service continuity. Combines executive stakeholder leadership with deep technical judgement across Agentic AI, RAG, LLMOps, AI evaluation and governance, NVIDIA, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform and DevOps. Suited to Technology Transformation Lead, Technology Programme Manager, Technology Delivery Lead, AI Transformation Lead, Enterprise AI Architect, AI Platform Architect and Cloud/Enterprise Platform Architect assignments.
Core skills
Technology Transformation
Programme Delivery
Enterprise AI Architecture
AI Platform Architecture
Agentic AI
RAG
LLMOps
AI Governance
NVIDIA
Databricks
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
Terraform
Financial Services
What I’m looking for next
Target roles: Technology Transformation Lead · Technology Programme Manager · Technology Delivery Lead · Programme Director – Technology Transformation · AI Transformation Lead · Enterprise AI Architect · AI Platform Architect · Principal AI Architect
Senior contract and interim assignments where technology transformation, programme delivery, enterprise AI architecture and cloud/platform modernisation intersect. Best suited to complex enterprise and regulated environments requiring executive stakeholder leadership with deep technical judgement. Open to short strategic assignments and six-to-twelve-month programmes, remote UK or London hybrid (normally no more than two days onsite weekly). UK work authorised; SC-eligible; not currently security cleared.
Contract preferences
Working preferenceRemote · Hybrid
Will workLondon, South East, Remote UK, UK-wide Hybrid
IR35 preferenceOutside IR35
SeniorityHead / Director
Contract lengthAny contract length
IT experience19 years
Contracting experience7 years
Relevant work experience
Recent delivery highlights: • Delivered more than $1M in annualised technology savings through controlled decommissioning and rationalisation of redundant cloud accounts, services and legacy environments. • Identified a further approximately $2M technology-optimisation opportunity. • Reduced a legacy technology vulnerability backlog from approximately 47,000 to 543 within six months while maintaining service continuity. • Led architecture and delivery of an Underwriter Intelligence platform using hybrid BM25 and vector retrieval, section-aware extraction, pgvector and human-in-the-loop controls, reducing structured-query failure by 80%. • Delivered an AI evaluation and quality-control capability covering golden datasets, RAG and agent evaluation, regression detection and CI/CD release gates. • Led delivery of an enterprise AI/GPU platform capability using NVIDIA technologies, Databricks and AWS. • Supported application-modernisation programmes covering approximately 40 applications and services.
Experience & credentials
Certifications, sector experience and security clearance are self-declared unless specifically marked as independently verified by IT Contractors UK.
Sector experienceFinancial Services · Insurance · Lloyd's Market · Banking · FinTech · Digital Commerce · Technology Consulting · Enterprise AI · Cloud and Platform Engineering
CertificationsPRINCE2 · Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional · Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect / Azure Solutions Architect Expert · Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
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