Mark Holland

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT MARK HOLLAND

For over two years, I have served as a Senior Enterprise Architect within Nationwide’s Chief Technology Office (CTO), aligned to their IT Infrastructure division. In this role, I work closely with stakeholders to shape, own, and document strategic direction, and then work with the various delivery teams to ensure successful adoption and implementation. Prior to this, I accumulated over 30 years of experience in IT consultancy and services with organisations such as Capita, Capgemini, and Computacenter. During that time, I was typically aligned to a specific enterprise size accounts, leading teams of IT professionals and taking accountability for defining technical solutions that delivered tangible business value.I have worked across financial, local government, and defence sectors all with different target architectures, controls, constraints, people and politics. I believe one of my strengths is how quickly I adapt to new environments, consider all the information available to me, to make informed decisions on how to reach our objectives.I am the technical representative at executive level meetings, I deliver the hard messages objectively, being resolute where necessary, and are an advocate for the delivery teams, ensuring they have what they need to produce successful outcomes. I promote the importance of Enterprise Architecture by encouraging standardisation, re-use of artefacts, and I monitor progress and quality through regular governance review. I ensure requirements are specific and measurable, design decisions are objective, and documentation is clear and concise.Being in a senior position, I recognise that the technical aspects of the role can often be the easy part. Some of the most demanding yet rewarding parts of the role can be in mentoring team members, identifying strengths, providing opportunities, developing relationships and tackling interpersonal dynamics amongst the wider team. I feel using technical expertise in combination with these interpersonal skills enables me to be as effective as I can in my role.