Ram Natarajan — Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect / Senior Engineering Lead

Led architecture and engineering for two strategic enterprise clients (logistics & professional HR services), driving digital transformation and cloud modernisation initiatives.

• ▹Architecture & Cloud: Architected enterprise solutions, including a major Azure cloud migration and 5+ releases for a sustainability platform, integrating open source tools like Keycloak for SSO and Apache Kafka for event streaming.
• ▹AI Adoption & Innovation: Championed AI-assisted delivery using Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, GitHub Copilot and Lovable to accelerate architecture, code generation and repetitive workflow automation — improving team productivity and client operational efficiency.
• ▹Technical Leadership: Led a team of 15+ developers. Directed full-cycle technical delivery, solved complex challenges, and established DevOps best practices.
• ▹Stakeholder Management: Served as primary technical advisor to senior client stakeholders, managing expectations and governing solutions through Technical Review Boards.

Solutions Architect (Contract)

Worked for the Apprenticeship Service (DFE/ESFA) as a Solution Architect spread across four teams digitally enabling the civil service with products supporting apprenticeships.

• ▹Managed agile teams focusing on digitally enabling civil service with products supporting apprenticeships by designing technical solutions and providing technical expertise.
• ▹Streamlined and benchmarked the architectural best practices and methods followed within the service.
• ▹Maintained and improved organic architecture documentation to set standards for current and future service enhancements.
• ▹Introduced a centralised message brokering service using RabbitMQ (open source) with a self-healing pattern (retry policy, circuit breaker, poison queue), saving overall product support time.
• ▹Integrated with third-party systems like Microsoft Dynamics 365 with organisations like UCAS using connectors and open RESTful APIs.
• ▹Power BI dashboards to visualise apprenticeship service KPIs for senior stakeholders, enabling data-driven decisions.

Associate Director

Oversee technical design and deliver solutions by analysing costing and budgeting. Facilitate business growth with a digital consulting practice whilst serving as a liaison for key accounts in the UK, Europe, and Ireland.

• ▹Supported clients in achieving development goals on platforms including Microsoft and a few open-source stacks through a close review of the end-to-end development cycle.
• ▹Delivered exceptional assistance to clients/prospects by addressing challenges, collecting requirements, and spearheading workshops and regular review calls throughout the cycle of projects.

Solutions Architect (Contract – SC Cleared)

Manage public sector projects with government bodies like NHS and Metropolitan Police on top of serving some clients from the private sector.

• ▹Reported directly to the Head of Technology while fulfilling the role of Solution Architect.
• ▹Created proof of concepts, evaluated third-party tools, and designed/maintained architectures for solutions.
• ▹Participated in all bid/pre-sales activities to win new projects; maintained cloud infrastructures for enterprise-level projects while monitoring performance and analytics.
• ▹Helped the client integrate with external entities mainly with Enterprise Integration Platforms like AIS, MuleSoft, SAP, Microsoft D365 and other custom RESTful APIs by leveraging modern scalable microservices architecture.

Technical Architect / Investing Partner

Acted as a Technical Architect Consultant/Investing Partner for a product based on cryptocurrencies and market trends with a trust-based rating mechanism for currencies.

• ▹Utilised Azure infrastructure and Microsoft stack for development and GitHub for source control.
• ▹Implemented development practices and deployed complete infrastructure from scratch in the Azure Cloud platform.

Senior Technical Architect / Lead

Administered project management, solution architecture, design, strategic planning, and execution. Led and trained developers in using modern technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.

• ▹Developed hybrid architecture using .NET Core (open source) and Azure Functions, leveraging Entity Framework Core and exposing subscription-based services via RESTful APIs.
• ▹Executed code review process with continuous integration and automated deployments by using Azure DevOps.
• ▹Introduced Agile methodology as a scrum practitioner; renovated client's suite of client-facing applications to current frameworks/standards by applying the latest technology including Containerisation and Kubernetes.

Technical Architect

Performed a strong hands-on role working on commerce-related APIs for exposing product services to clients.

• ▹Directed a web agency for a range of eCommerce projects including Episerver, Epifind, .Net, C#, MVC, Razor, Azure web app, and GitHub.
• ▹Delivered a full-fledged B2B eCommerce solution for a leading client by directing a small team of developers/testers.

Senior Episerver Consultant / Team Lead

Operated as a technology lead for a major publishing house with EPiServer as the main CMS technology.

• ▹Developed a few scheduled jobs to share data back and forth to different clients / APIs.
• ▹Maintained product and team for two years; enhanced usability of the whole website and showed considerable efficiency improvement with better analysis by migrating search providers using SOLR.

Senior Software Consultant

Hired as a technical consultant to provide full-stack software development and technical leadership for a leading global accountancy firm.

• ▹Technical Leadership & Ownership: Provided technical guidance throughout the project lifecycle, from architecture design to deployment.
• ▹Full-Lifecycle Delivery: Owned the end-to-end development process — design, planning, development, deployment and support.
• ▹Technical Development: Engineered robust, scalable solutions using the Microsoft technology stack (VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework) and front-end technologies (JavaScript, jQuery, CSS).
• ▹Productivity Enhancement: Led the evaluation and integration of third-party suites (DevExpress, Aspose) to accelerate UI development and document processing.
• ▹Process & Collaboration: Championed the use of Team Foundation Server (TFS) for source control, work item tracking, and CI/CD processes.