Alistair Sutherland
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Head of Product Engineering
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Head of Product EngineeringFreeAgentJul 2024 - Current (2 years 4 months)- Group Engineering Manager | Banking and EngagementFreeAgentJun 2022 - Jul 2024 (2 years 2 months)
- Senior Engineering Manager | BankingFreeAgentJun 2020 - Jun 2022 (2 years 1 month)
- Software Engineering ManagerOVO EnergyJul 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year)My role at OVO is to recruit, manage and lead multiple cross-functional squads responsible for both maintaining the core insurance platform and evolving the platform onto a new technology stack to enable the business to rapidly scale and disrupt the market through technological innovation.
Significant achievements include introducing mature engineering processes and practices, forming & growing the squads with talented engineers, coaching engineering talent to reach their potential and overseeing the design and development of a prototype micro-service architecture as the basis for a new insurance platform.
Responsibilities:
o The management of multiple cross-functional squads with high-performing engineers, whilst - Co-founder and CTOSquare Book LimitedJul 2017 - Jul 2019 (2 years 1 month)SquareBook is a FinTech start-up, creating a digital marketplace which addresses the capital-raising needs of high growth firms.
As a co-founder and CTO of a software start-up, I had many responsibilities that would traditionally span multiple roles. These range from hiring, mentoring and leading the engineering function within the organisation, to the design, development, and architecture of the SquareBook platform.
Responsibilities:
o The management of the engineering function, including hiring, coaching, leading and mentoring the development team.
o The creation and maintenance of the platform road map.
o Overall responsibility for the design, development and architecture of the platform.
o The d - Technical DirectorSNX Systems LimitedJul 2015 - Jul 2017 (2 years 1 month)SNX Systems provides a software platform that allows businesses to produce enterprise class applications in a fraction of the time compared with traditional development environments.
My role at SNX was to head the engineering function within the organisation. My responsibilities included managing a cross functional team spanning two geographical locations, as well as driving all technical aspects of the platform architecture. Significant achievements during this role included introducing professional engineering processes and practices to the business. By refocusing engineering efforts on creating products for the financial services industry, we successfully delivered releases to multiple tier-1 investment banks (Goldman Sachs, J - Lead / Advisory Software EngineerPitney Bowes SoftwareMay 2010 - Jul 2015 (5 years 3 months)I was the technical lead in the development of customer interaction, campaign management and customer analytics solutions. Latterly, I was responsible for leading the development of web-based applications for visually selecting and segmenting customers.
Responsibilities:
o Leading the design and development of new products following an Agile development process.
o Scrum coaching and process improvement.
o Providing bespoke customization and consultancy expertise directly to internal product teams and customer projects.
Technologies:
o .NET development (C#, ASP.NET, Web API, Entity Framework), Front end developmen - Software EngineerNeverfail GroupApr 2007 - May 2010 (3 years 2 months)I was a member of the development team responsible for developing a high availability/disaster recovery solution for Microsoft Windows Servers and mission critical applications.
Technologies:
o Java development, C/C++ development, Object orientated analysis and design, XML, JUnit, CppUnit, SVN, CruiseControl - Software EngineerAker SolutionsMar 2004 - Apr 2007 (3 years 2 months)I was responsible for developing the subsea process control system to use TCP/IP communication over fibre optics. The software is currently deployed and responsible for controlling offshore developments such as BP King, Total Dalia and Statoil Kristin. This role gave me excellent experience of the full development lifecycle on large safety-critical development projects.
Technologies:
o C++ (inc. MFC, COM) development, object-orientated analysis and design, UML modelling.
Education
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- BEng (Hons, Software EngineeringThe University of EdinburghJan 1999 - Jan 2003 (4 years 1 month)