Founder and Principal Consultant – Data, Architecture & AI at Endure Intelligence Ltd (2026-07 – Present)
Delivered a two-week assignment to design a solution to decommission legacy platform of Energy Trading Risk Management (ETRM) to transform end-to-end trade life cycle to a modern SaaS platform - FIS and Equias. Service offerings range from Advisory & Leadership to End-to-End Solution Delivery & Assurance in:
- Enterprise Solutions Architecture - TOGAF-aligned architecture reviews, target-state design, and architecture runway planning.
- Integration Architecture - iPaaS design, API strategy, and master data management.
- Independent Architecture Review - Impartial assurance across cloud posture, CI/CD, and integration layers - a second opinion.
- AI Readiness - Maturity assessment, use-case prioritisation, governance frameworks, POC to production scalability.
- Data Platform Strategy - Medallion architecture, Data Mesh, and Lakehouse design across Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and AWS.
- DataOps & Governance - Data quality, lineage, access control, and metadata management built to scale with the organisation.
Vice President - Data at Inchcape Shipping Services (2024-01 – 2026-06)
Led the data stream of the business transformation of a global maritime organisation (245 offices, 70 countries), accountable for delivering data projects, AI readiness aligned with the transformation objectives of system & process optimisations, and integrations across the full business – port agency operations, commercial, procurement, finance, FinOps, non-port agency and ancillary.
- Designed automation of vendor, customer, agents, sub-agents onboarding with automated sanctions & due diligence checks.
- Reviewed end to end solution designs and implementation of custom FX Automation, Sedna, eye-share and Voyager automation.
- Successfully merged Analytics & BI teams into a unified Data Function.
- Owned and implemented data strategy with transformation projects and change management teams.
- Defined and executed the new decentralised, federated reporting model realising ROI on the $1.6m investment case.
- Stabilised the Data Function, aggressive cost reductions of annual ~$219,000 by restructuring EMD operations into a self-sufficient unit to absorb BAU growth and successfully renegotiated the Lloyds data contract saving annually £35,000.
- Optimised teams' ways of working and absorbed 18% increase in data demand, processing ~50k requests, including ~5k new customers and vendors while streamlining global bank-account verification process and fulfilling quarterly Finance audits.
Head of Architecture at Inchcape Shipping Services (2020-09 – 2023-12)
- Worked with the business to define Target Operating Model using Signavio BPM tool mapping as-is operational processes with futuristic process maps encompassing people, technology, and data. Helped business save £12,000 annually in Signavio contract.
- Acted as a strategist and directing various teams in a multi-million multi-year Experience Transformation Programme.
- In collaboration with business leaders, delivered value-driven business outcomes through custom built IT Architecture framework using TOGAF and SAFe principles, introducing functional design concepts to business and product management groups.
- Established TDA (Technical Design Authority) alongside ARB (Architecture Review Board) minimising technical debts.
- Decommissioned legacy operational and general ledger that is integrated with complex day-to-day operations, finances of purchase and sales, budget consolidations, reporting, and business insights, Salesforce CRM, contracts and with external systems.
- Showcased Analytics capabilities on newly digitised products to the Senior Leadership Team proving value realisation resulting in a yearly investment of £1 million.
- Led AWS environment optimisation initiative that saved circa $ 60k annually.
- Cost-effectively, institutionalised various initiatives of Shared Services, in-sourcing 24x7 App Support, DevOps functions and modern engineering practices to name a few.
Enterprise Architect at Inchcape Shipping Services (2019-10 – 2020-09)
- Owner of IT Architecture Framework definition, control, literacy and training.
- Involved in onboarding of BambooHR – HRIS system including integration with Azure AD, payroll, SharePoint, Learning Management System, Zoho ITSM for employee onboarding to termination.
- Designed strategies for transforming legacy central coding data to modern Enterprise Master Data, AWS Cloud, low code/no-code OutSystems SaaS Platform, decommissioning on-premises general ledger to Unit4 Financials on Azure Cloud.
- Delivered various artefacts such as EA Principles, Architecture Roadmaps, NFRs, Technology Bricks (sunset to sunrise), AS-IS and TO-BE Architecture with Transition Architectures, Systems Maps, Shared Services for common, reusable components, and Tools.
Business Solutions Architect at Inchcape Shipping Services (2016-11 – 2019-10)
- Upgraded, migrated and decommissioned on-premises general ledger of 86 individual instances to a supportable version.
- Designed and Architected Data Centre movement for global Applications. Implemented SDAD concept from scratch.
- Analysed, Architected and Implemented Treasury Express integration with General Ledger.
- Supported business for onboarding and offboarding of Workday HRIS system for initial setup, integration and decommissioning.
- BRD to Architecture to delivery of Integrations between IMOS and ISS Systems.
- Realised CIO's vision of Enterprise Master Data & Enterprise Integrations functions by selecting Dell Boomi Platform owning end-to-end RFP to contract. Designed business/integration processes, and data flows, built and trained teams to deliver the outcomes.
Vice President – Development Centre at Inchcape Shipping Services (2014-01 – 2016-12)
Led the ISS Development Centre (IDC) for end-to-end IT Services for business analysis, technology, architecture, product, software engineering, DevOps, quality assurance, master data management, 24x7 app support, and production operations.
- Executed CIOs' and CTOs' strategies by successfully executing projects ranging from $2 to 20 million.
- Managed annual budgets ranging from $5 to 12 million.
- Optimised onshore/offshore model, improving 50% efficiencies.
- Represented IDC in various leadership meetings, PMI, SPIN, ISACA and Computer Society of India forums.
- Improved overall efficiency of IDC by reducing the bottom line by implementing ALM tools, MS TFS, JIRA, LANDesk etc.
- Replaced legacy CRM with Salesforce CRM.
- Introduced Dot Net based bespoke application transformation to replace Delphi, CM/DCOM based web based legacy operational system using BizTalk as an integration layer.
General Manager – Application Development at Inchcape Shipping Services (2010-01 – 2014-12)
- Directing Projects and overall Program Management.
- Managed Capex and Opex investments of ISS development centre to solve business problems.
- Optimised onshore/offshore model, executed complicated, complex application development, support, and maintenance of multimillion projects and BAU.
- Optimised operational efficiency by 50% with increased productivity and improved quality.
- Technology enabler of BizTalk implementation as a middle layer for all ISS integrations.
- Year on Year contributed to business-level strategic meetings.
- Implemented technical architectural practices recommended by Gartner.
- Represented IDC in various PMI, SPIN, ISACA and Computer Society of India forums.
- Contributed to various business bids for software costs.
Senior Manager – Process & Strategy at ShipNet Software Solutions (2008-01 – 2010-12)
- Self-trained in Enterprise Architecture through IT Architecture World Summit.
- Managed HR function in the interim, defined and implemented recruitment process, and Performance Based Appraisals.
- Prepared organisation for External Assessment of process maturity.
