Supporting credibility

A long architecture track record, kept in support of the consulting offer.

This page is for buyers who want the experience layer behind the services: architecture leadership across modernization, integration, platform change, security, and delivery governance.

Condensed summary

Senior architecture judgment shaped in delivery-heavy environments.

Brad has worked across enterprise, solution, and platform architecture in finance, energy, digital product, retail, logistics, and public-sector contexts. The through-line is consistent: clarify difficult trade-offs, reduce delivery risk, and make architecture useful to teams that still have to ship.

30+ years

architecture and technical leadership

Long-range experience across multiple delivery eras, from earlier enterprise estates to modern cloud-native programs.

Multi-sector

finance to digital product

Work spans financial services, energy, commerce, public-sector environments, and large consumer platforms.

Hands-on

strategy plus execution

Comfortable moving between roadmaps, governance, architecture documentation, delivery alignment, and targeted technical spikes.

Cross-functional

boardroom to delivery teams

Trusted where product, engineering, security, and leadership need a shared frame for technical decisions.

Working context

Set up for consulting across France and Europe.

Brad is based in France and works comfortably across hybrid and remote collaboration. The best fit is usually senior architecture or advisory work tied directly to delivery rather than abstract strategy detached from execution.

  • France-based, with English and French site presence from the start.

  • Comfortable across hybrid or remote collaboration models in Europe.

  • Useful in rooms that mix stakeholders, architects, engineers, and delivery leads.

  • A fuller detailed CV can still be shared directly when procurement or due diligence needs it.

Selected experience

Recent roles and the longer arc behind them.

This is a selective timeline, not a full document dump. It emphasizes the roles and patterns most relevant to consulting work around modernization, integration, governance, and architecture leadership.

  1. 2024–2025 Relocation and hands-on project work

    Planned transition and renovation chapter

    UK and France

    Used a deliberate break to complete a move to France and large-scale renovation work. Even outside software, the same themes applied: sequencing, constraint management, judgment under uncertainty, and seeing work through physically as well as conceptually.

    • constraint management
    • long-horizon delivery
    • France-based
  2. 2023–2024 France

    Senior Solutions Architect

    Euroclear

    Led Azure-aligned transformation thinking for a global financial-services environment, with strong emphasis on CIAM, security posture, compliance, and architecture direction that had to work inside real operational constraints.

    • Azure
    • CIAM
    • financial services
    • governance
  3. 2022–2023 France

    Lead Architect

    Ubisoft

    Directed enterprise-wide architecture work across sales, e-commerce, HR, and finance domains. Defined API-first and cloud-modernization direction and contributed at advisory-board level where technical choices affected broader business execution.

    • API-first
    • cloud modernization
    • enterprise architecture
    • advisory board
  4. 2022 United Kingdom

    Senior Solutions Architect

    Shell

    Worked on cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and DevOps direction for trading and carbon analytics, balancing modern platform patterns with delivery needs in a high-stakes operational environment.

    • cloud-native
    • data pipelines
    • DevOps
    • analytics
  5. 2018–2020 United Kingdom

    Principal Consultant

    Buildit @ Wipro Digital

    Delivered consulting around API strategy, cloud adoption, and digital transformation across clients, combining strategic guidance with practical support for secure platforms and technical team evolution.

    • consulting
    • API strategy
    • cloud adoption
    • team mentoring
  6. 2010–2018 Global

    Enterprise Architect and Consultant

    Various clients

    Worked across finance, energy, transportation, and other sectors on integration, modernization, security, and enterprise architecture challenges, building the pattern-recognition base that now supports faster consulting judgment.

    • integration
    • modernization
    • security
    • enterprise scope

Expertise areas

The architecture patterns Brad is repeatedly asked to navigate.

The mix below reflects the overlap between technical depth and delivery reality: architecture is most useful when it makes hard work more governable rather than more abstract.

Architecture leadership in ambiguous environments

Useful where teams need sharper decision boundaries, clearer trade-offs, and someone who can connect business pressure with technical consequence.

  • decision framing
  • stakeholder alignment
  • delivery pressure

Modernization and platform change

Experienced in sequencing change around legacy constraints, cloud adoption, migration risk, and the reality that most important systems cannot be replaced in one move.

  • legacy constraints
  • migration
  • cloud platforms

API, integration, and system boundaries

Strong background in API strategy, gateways, integration patterns, event-driven thinking, and designing boundaries that help systems and teams scale more cleanly.

  • APIs
  • integration strategy
  • event-driven
  • microservices

Security, identity, and governance

Comfortable in work that touches IAM, CIAM, compliance, privacy, and the practical governance needed when architecture decisions create policy consequences.

  • IAM
  • CIAM
  • GDPR
  • risk posture

AI delivery relevance without AI theatre

Not an AI-only profile, but highly relevant where teams need review loops, architecture guardrails, integration discipline, and production-minded adoption instead of unchecked prototype momentum.

  • review loops
  • guardrails
  • adoption discipline

Hands-on technical credibility

Still close enough to code, tooling, and architecture artifacts to prototype, document, or test a direction when a concrete artifact will unblock the right decision.

  • technical spikes
  • documentation
  • tooling fluency

Supporting credibility

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