
Naomi Sterling
Enterprise Architect
Aligning technology to strategy across the whole business
Enterprise architect with twenty years in technology, the last eight shaping enterprise and solution architecture for large organisations in London. Defines the target-state architecture, sets standards and roadmaps, and makes sure technology investment actually serves business strategy across applications, data, integration and cloud. Led the architecture of a group-wide cloud and data-platform transformation that consolidated dozens of legacy systems. Governs solution designs, chairs the architecture review board, advises executives on build-versus-buy and risk, and brings delivery teams along rather than dictating from an ivory tower. Strong across the technical depth and the business and stakeholder politics the role demands. Pragmatic about trade-offs. Looking for an enterprise- or principal-architect role with an organisation undergoing serious technology change.
London Financial Group - London, UK
Enterprise Architect April 2016 to Present 10 years & 3 months
Led the architecture of a group-wide cloud and data transformation consolidating dozens of legacy systems.
Set the architecture standards and govern all the solution designs through the architecture review board.
Advise the executives on build-versus-buy, on technology risk and the big technology investment decisions.
Align the technology strategy to business goals and bring the delivery teams along with the vision.
Mentor the solution architects and steadily raise the architecture maturity right across the whole organisation.
City Technology Consulting - London, UK
Solution Architect / Lead Developer August 2003 to March 2016 12 years & 8 months
Progressed from senior developer to solution architect on major client programmes.
Led the architecture and the technical design across many complex client projects.
Gained the TOGAF certification and then moved into an enterprise-architect role.
City Technology Consulting - London, UK
Software Developer June 2000 to July 2003 3 years & 2 months
Learned software design, databases and the integration hands-on on the job.
Built the engineering depth that good solution architecture is built on.
Moved into a senior developer and architect track from there afterwards.
Imperial College London
BSc (Hons) Computer Science (September 2000 to June 2003)
The Open Group
TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect (January 2013 to June 2013)
Group-wide transformation
Architect, not ivory tower
Integration Platform Build
Enterprise Architect (January 2019 to June 2020)
Target Operating Model Design
Enterprise Architect (January 2021 to September 2021)
TOGAF Certified
The Open Group (June 2013 to Present)
Cloud Architecture (AWS/Azure)
Amazon Web Services (April 2019 to Present)
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- TOGAF / Frameworks
- Cloud Architecture
- Data & Integration Architecture
- Technology Roadmaps
- Architecture Governance
- Strategy Alignment
- Stakeholder Management
- Build-vs-Buy Analysis