Mark Whitfield is an SC-cleared Senior IT Project Manager and Engagement Manager who has delivered prominent enterprise-scale banking, payment, and transaction infrastructure projects across his 35-year career. He has worked extensively with major financial institutions, including the Bank of England, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, and HSBC.
His core banking and financial technology projects include major infrastructure migrations, transaction monitoring rollouts, and foundational electronic banking architectures.
Major IT Project Management & Delivery Roles
- Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) Self-Service Software Replacement (SSSR)
As a Project Manager with Wincor Nixdorf’s Banking Division, he managed a £5+ million workstream to modernize LBG’s retail banking infrastructure. The project successfully upgraded the entire LBG ATM hardware estate from Windows XP to Windows 7 and migrated core ATM driving responsibilities from legacy BASE24 Classic mainframe systems to modern AIX and Oracle platforms. - Al Rajhi Bank Real-Time Log Extraction (RTLX) Deployment
During his tenure at Insider Technologies, he directed the implementation of the RTLX Reactor Suite for Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Bank. This project consolidated several terabytes of tape-archived and live POS/ATM transaction logs from HPE NonStop mainframes into web-based monitoring dashboards. - Enterprise Financial Client Project Portfolio
As a Senior Project Manager and Capgemini Engagement Manager, he oversaw high-value complex delivery frameworks, software rollouts, and hybrid cloud migrations impacting major global finance hubs. His direct banking client portfolio includes providing technical project leadership for Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, Rabobank, Euroclear (Crestco), Alliance & Leicester (Santander), and Global Payments.
Early Software Engineering & Financial Systems Tailoring
Before fully transitioning to senior project management, Whitfield spent his early career from 1990 to 1995 as a Lead Analyst and programmer building core electronic banking software frameworks:
- Barclays Business Master II (BBM II): Deployed on-site at Barclays in Knutsford to lead the core mainframe architecture design and backend software coding for their premier business desktop-banking solution.
- sp/ARCHITECT-BANK Framework: Developed core back-end software modules using COBOL85 and NonStop SQL on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop), allowing corporate electronic account transfers for high-street brands like TSB and Bank of Scotland.
- Girofon (Denmark): Engineered an interactive voice-response banking interface that securely integrated telephone systems with live mainframe transactional databases.
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