James Lees

Technology Architect Senior Manager @Accenture

2020-Present\\\\nSenior GCP Data Architect for projects in the Financial Services and Telco Sectors utilising Google Data & Analytics products to deliver modern data warehouse, analytics, machine learning and data management capabilities.\\\\n\\\\n20••••20\\\\nHelping a large public sector client in their journey into a multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud architecture - overcoming challenges of scaling teams and technology whilst providing robust, secure services on AWS and Azure. Leading a project to modernise and migrate legacy systems to the cloud to deliver savings by decommissioning legacy mainframe and unix systems.\\\\n\\\\n20••••19\\\\nLeading architecture and delivery teams for a client in the UK Higher Education sector. Introducing new greenfield platforms including Sitecore CMS, Webmethods API Gateway, MS Dynamics 365. Designing and delivering the first services to use the Microsoft Azure Cloud.\\\\n\\\\n20••••17\\\\nWorking with a multinational bank to develop their API Architecture and API Security Patterns. Supporting upcoming regulatory changes such as Open API and PSD2, and implementing governance patterns and policies for APIs developed by agile teams globally and deployed to a common platform across multiple geographies and legal entities.\\\\n\\\\n20••••16\\\\nWorking with a large UK retail client, responsible for Integration Architecture for several complex releases spanning a large and varied estate of both emerging and legacy systems. Key highlights have included:\\\\n• Leading teams introducing the Micro Services pattern, using a Scrum Agile methodology.\\\\n• Developing and governing high volume Restful APIs (tens of millions of requests/day) – used by both business partners and mobile apps.\\\\n• Architecting integration in a complex legacy estate of custom built legacy and COTS packages; using WebSphere Message Broker.\\\\n• Supporting the client through the planning and successful execution of Black Friday trading.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n