Curriculum Vitae
- Name:
- Christopher Mark Buckley M.Sc. (Dunelm)
- Email:
- chris@cmbuckley.co.uk
Summary
An established technology leader and mentor with 16+ years’ experience working on large IT platforms and enterprise transformation programmes. Skilled at communicating with clients & stakeholders at all organisational levels in fast-paced agile businesses. Excellent hands-on experience with a strong architecture & engineering background; experienced in delivering highly available, fault-tolerant, distributed systems across financial services, healthcare, retail and iGaming sectors using on-premises and cloud-based solutions. Keen advocate of open-source technologies and communities.
Professional Experience
Principal Consultant
- Broad leadership role responsible for strategy & direction of architecture & engineering capabilities, engagement & account management with clients across all sectors, organisational maturity & operational excellence
- OKR champion responsible for shaping & communicating company mission & objectives
- Defined company mission, strategy, roadmap & progression plans with heads of capability
- Experienced in delivering tech strategy, M&A transformation & due diligence, ISO 27001 governance
Interim CTPO, Preventx
- Ownership, management and execution of the Preventx technology strategy
- Overall responsibility for the use of technology within Preventx, including the platform, infrastructure, operations & quality management
- Responsible for IT budget, including forecasting, allocation, and expenditure tracking
- Product strategy and alignment of commercial aspirations with technical capabilities
- Senior leadership and mentorship of a blended technical team
- Fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, representing the technical team at board level
Engineering Manager, Scottish Friendly Assurance
- Management of a blended engineering team distributed across multiple workstreams
- Delivering organisation digital maturity improvements for SDLC, software governance, Continuous Integration & ways of working to support development & assurance testing for a major platform upgrade
Head of Architecture, Strike
- Head of Architecture for Strike during acquisition of Purplebricks
- Delivered technical due diligence & appraisal of existing platforms, services & suppliers to inform target operating model, consolidated target landscape, change roadmap & risk assessment for accelerated re-launch under a single brand & proposition
Lead Architect, NHS England
- Architect & Account Manager for NHS COVID Pass programme
- Supported creation of target operating model for service transition within NHS, aligning commercials, policy & technical governance
- Responsible for Technical Design Authority process overseeing programme change
- Led the initiative to embed SDLC best practices & release COVID Pass source code to the public
Senior Solutions Architect
- Launched a new games content aggregation platform with teams across the Flutter group, reducing third-party revenue share and driving platform independence
- Pioneered real-time Kafka-driven data hub strategy for standardised communication with Data teams
- Incident Commander providing measured support to on-call teams during incidents and major events
- Engaged with heads of technology, product and marketing to align business and technical strategy
- Oversight of compliance initiatives including GDPR, PCI DSS and vulnerability management
- Technical contact for external vendors providing supporting services and delivery capability
- Mentor to other architects and engineers in teams across gaming products and services
Engineering Manager
- Built & led multiple agile engineering teams delivering products and services in the Gaming sector
- Provided leadership, management & coaching for Software, Test and Platform Engineers
- Implemented and communicated SDLC for governance of continuous delivery and operational support
- Worked with Architects and Service Delivery Managers to manage third-party vendor relationships
- Responsible for recruitment and retention of diverse-skill teams working closely with Talent Recruiters
- Key advocate for corporate open-source contribution and technical community involvement
Principal Engineer
- Technical lead for Sky Poker in-house development team
- Delivery and support of Rich Internet Applications in a virtualised LAMP environment
- Technical liaison for third-party integration and software architecture
- Worked with stakeholders to define product roadmap and strategic direction
- Collaborated with Platform and Service Operations teams to ensure high availability
- Worked with Architects to evolve company technical roadmap
Senior Software Engineer
- Development and maintenance of applications using Zend Framework
- End-to-end accountability for projects from design to launch
- Project planning with stakeholders to define project scope
- Active involvement with evolution of Continuous Integration and code analysis tools
- Design authority and development of standards for RESTful Web services
- Involvement with team recruitment process (interviewing / technical tests)
Developer
- Development of PHP property management system and Ajax-driven UI framework
- Refactoring of existing implementation for cross-browser compatibility
- Maintenance of LAMP platform, CVS codebase, coding standards and Bugzilla
Qualifications
- BPSS & SC Clearance
- UKSV, January 2023
- Manager HD Programme
- Institute of Leadership & Management, April 2015
- Practitioner in Enterprise & Solution Architecture
- British Computer Society, December 2013
- Master of Science (Research)
- Faculty of Science, University of Durham, 2006–2009
- Bachelor of Science
- College of St. Hild and St. Bede, University of Durham, 2003–2006
- Upper Second-Class Honours (2:1)
- B.Sc. Natural Sciences (Computer Science & Mathematics)
Personal Interests
- Programming (contribution to a number of open-source projects)
- Rock climbing
- Snowboarding
- Cycling / mountain biking
- Languages (French, learning Polish)
- Music (electric guitar, live music)