Rob Nowik

Program Architect for a large HPC focused solution (> £1B)

- Technical lead during pre-sales.
- Responsible for synthesizing complex business requirements into technical architectures and roadmaps
- Lead architect for delivery (100+ people)
- Partnered with Azure engineering teams and partners to deliver product features and dedicated solutions
- Establishing program governance structures and practices (across MS orgs, partner and customer)
- Defined and drove… Show more

Program Architect for a large HPC focused solution (> £1B)

- Technical lead during pre-sales.
- Responsible for synthesizing complex business requirements into technical architectures and roadmaps
- Lead architect for delivery (100+ people)
- Partnered with Azure engineering teams and partners to deliver product features and dedicated solutions
- Establishing program governance structures and practices (across MS orgs, partner and customer)
- Defined and drove adherence to OKRs, KPIs and other measures of success
- Defined service continuity plans
- Ensured adherence to key standards (e.g. MCSB, Well-Architected Framework, MS CAF, NCSC principles)
- Led ISO27001 certification
- Established compliance and traceability to complex technical and commercial requirements
- Optimised DevOps processes
- Collaborated closely with legal and compliance teams
- Produced technical documentation
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Lead architect for a program to deliver a highly specialized modern identity solution for up to 200,000 users (using Azure AD B2C). This solution involves many custom authentication journeys and components.

Solution Architect for a programme to transform a regional government organisation. Key contributions include delivering Citizen Login for up to 450,000 users (with custom logic to validate a person's identity, and provide multiple levels-of-assurance), as well as defining the integration architecture and future channels of interaction.

Solution Architect for a large Contact Management solution. This will provide modern tools, insights and increased operational efficiency.

Responsible for:

- Defining and evolving the architecture.
- Influencing the decision making process in relation to key solution approaches.
- Leveraging capabilities of team (40+) and broader resource base to optimise outcomes.
- Orchestrating third parties to achieve shared deliverables
- Being a customer advocate (i.e. ensuring… Show more

Solution Architect for a large Contact Management solution. This will provide modern tools, insights and increased operational efficiency.

Responsible for:

- Defining and evolving the architecture.
- Influencing the decision making process in relation to key solution approaches.
- Leveraging capabilities of team (40+) and broader resource base to optimise outcomes.
- Orchestrating third parties to achieve shared deliverables
- Being a customer advocate (i.e. ensuring the technical team understands the business need)
- Architect a foundation for growth

Won Microsoft “Peak Performer” and “Services Spotlight” awards for my contributions to the programme.

Technologies: Azure, .NET, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, Service Bus.
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Took over Development Manager responsibility for two business mission critical platforms:
A platform to facilitate the switching of customers’ bank accounts within 7 days using .NET / WF
A platform used to process the majority of transactions conducted by account holders.
These constituted a £70M+ programme over 6 years.
Responsible for: Leading a technical team (35+ members) to successful delivery, leading planning and estimating, ensuring risks, actions, issues and decisions… Show more

Took over Development Manager responsibility for two business mission critical platforms:
A platform to facilitate the switching of customers’ bank accounts within 7 days using .NET / WF
A platform used to process the majority of transactions conducted by account holders.
These constituted a £70M+ programme over 6 years.
Responsible for: Leading a technical team (35+ members) to successful delivery, leading planning and estimating, ensuring risks, actions, issues and decisions were tracked and progressed, leading transition to support on programme completion.
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Developed a system to allow customers to automatically transfer their bank accounts. The solution is built using .NET and Windows Workflow 4.0.
Successfully led the development team for Release 2 (at its peak, the team consisted of 10 developers, running for 3 months). Release was delivered early.
Feature lead on the "Balance Transfer" part of the system.
The project won the "Best Collaboration" award at a Microsoft Internal Conference (5000+ attendees).

Owned and led the development of an internal tool that automates creation of Visual Studio 2012 load test rigs on Azure.
ATE has now been used by various large global Microsoft product teams and customer engagements. One of these load testing engagements (Netherlands) won the "Most Innovative" award at a Microsoft Internal Conference (5000+ attendees).

Developed a security PoC with the Azure security product team to provide single-sign-on and minimal disclosure, using Azure and Claims-based-Auth.

Developed a platform to allow marketing websites to be rapidly spun up, as well as provide detailed capture and analyse site usage (using C#, ASP.NET, Azure, MVC, SharePoint 2012, Entity Framework).
Feature lead for several components of this platform. My feature teams were typically between 3-8 people including offshore contributors.
Heavily involved in implementing Application Lifecycle Management processes (including automating these using PowerShell and MSBuild).
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Developed a platform to allow marketing websites to be rapidly spun up, as well as provide detailed capture and analyse site usage (using C#, ASP.NET, Azure, MVC, SharePoint 2012, Entity Framework).
Feature lead for several components of this platform. My feature teams were typically between 3-8 people including offshore contributors.
Heavily involved in implementing Application Lifecycle Management processes (including automating these using PowerShell and MSBuild).
This project won a Microsoft "Services Star" award. Show less

Development Lead on a project to build a BI solution for marketing analytics (using C#, SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server Analysis Services).
Implemented Scrum across a team of 9 people.

Built a solution to repeatedly automate setup, provisioning and management of SharePoint intranet sites. Built a suite of PowerShell scripts to fulfil clients’ requirements.
Subsequently harvested (and white-labelled) scripts as IP; they have now been used as an accelerator across the majority of large SharePoint 2010 development projects at MCS UK.

Feature lead for phase 1 and Development Lead for phase 2 of a SharePoint based internet site to capture environmental statistics.

Development lead for an offshore team, building an intranet landing site for 80000+ employees (using SharePoint, C#, ASP.NET). I won a Microsoft Great People. Great Performance award for my work on this project

Worked on a system to digitize and archive analogue / tape media. My role involved migrating areas of functionality to consume data from external systems using WCF.

Feature lead building a solution to monitor offshore oil installations. This system facilitated real time monitoring, trending and maintenance scheduling on oil rigs in multiple North Sea fields (using C# and SharePoint).