Chris Phillips
Devops Lead @NatWest Group
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WORK HISTORY
Devops Lead @NatWest Group
Bristol, GB
Leading onshore/offshore teams of DevOps Engineers and Environment Analysts, providing tools and pipelines to enable delivery of software change through to Production. A highly regulated financial institution, blending modern software development technologies and practices with legacy backend systems and processes. Achievements• Reformed an ad-hoc collection of individuals into scrum-sized teams with specialist focus• Introduced agile practices, making all work visible and enabling business-focused prioritisation• Identified and mitigated key-person dependencies / single-points-of-failure to deliver a more resilient business operation• Enable, support and deliver multiple Production releases of a tier-1 banking platform• Developed and proposed transformation plan to take the entire platform from its legacy environment and monolithic release process to a modern solution enabling shorter lead times and target-zero downtimeResponsibilities• Advocate and drive adoption of DevOps practices and principles• Delivery of prioritised work to agreed timescales and budgets• Ensure availability of environments, systems, tools and pipelines to enable delivery of new business features to customers• Risk and compliance management• Coach and mentor teams and individuals• Product Owner
EDUCATION
The University of Huddersfield
BA (Hons) Computing in Business
ABOUT CHRIS PHILLIPS
A business technology leader, focused on identifying and delivering business outcomes in a sustainable manner. Extensive experience of business and technology transformation, with a focus on DevOps practices, agile, and cloud technologies. An evangelist and champion for change, comfortable speaking at all levels, facilitating workshops, and leading pursuit and technical teams. With a technical and pre-sales background, including programming, architecture and system administration roles, able to get hands-on when the situation requires it.Encourages collaboration and empowerment within and across teams; actively promotes learning, development and well-being.
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