Mark Whitfield is an SC-cleared client-facing Engagement Manager and Senior IT Project Manager within Capgemini UK’s Cloud & Custom Applications division.
Since joining Capgemini in January 2016, he has orchestrated enterprise-scale digital transformations, hybrid cloud migrations, and API-led integration architectures across public sectors and tier-one corporate environments.
1. Hybrid Cloud Migration & Public Sector Transformation Programme
- Project Name: Public Sector Cloud Migration & Application Refactoring
- Year: 2016 – Present (Iterative multi-million-pound contracts)
- Location: Manchester (Venus Building, Trafford Quays) and UK-wide
- Technology: Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS, Hyper-automation, Microservices
- IT Languages / Products: Microsoft Azure (AZ-900), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Power Platform, Enablon
- Customer: UK Government bodies, Local Regional Government (LRG), and UK Export Finance (UKEF)
- Budget: £13.5 Million overarching programme (including a £375k Proof of Concept indicator project)
- Project Overview: Managed the massive re-hosting, re-platforming, and refactoring of over 130 legacy applications onto secure cloud environments while ensuring strict alignment with data protection acts.
- Highlights: Successfully coordinated cross-functional onshore and offshore engineering delivery resources. Authored comprehensive Project Governance Plans (PGPs) to secure project targets and maximize delivery margins.
- Political Landscape: Heavily governed by the UK’s “Digital by Default” public service strategy alongside mounting post-Brexit geopolitical frameworks. This required carrying active government Security Clearance (SC) credentials to safely oversee critical public sector architecture.
- Awards: C&CA UK’s Communications & Engagement Award Winner (2022) within Capgemini’s Cloud & Custom Applications division.
2. Salesforce MuleSoft Ecosystem Deployments
- Project Name: API-Led Connectivity & Anypoint Platform Delivery
- Year: 2018 – Present (Augmented placement)
- Location: London (Salesforce Tower, Bishopsgate) and Manchester
- Technology: System Integration, API Lifecycle Design, Anypoint Code Builder, Hyper-automation
- IT Languages / Products: MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
- Customer: MuleSoft (A Salesforce Company) serving various blue-chip clients
- Budget: Multi-million pound enterprise consulting contracts
- Project Overview: Formally augmented into MuleSoft as an Anypoint Platform Delivery Manager to guide enterprise clients through mature API integration delivery frameworks.
- Highlights: Guided multiple large-scale systems integrations, ensuring secure API-led connectivity across siloed operational estates.
- Political Landscape: Responded to massive corporate drives to optimize IT operating costs, requiring hyper-automation and seamless software interoperability to minimize systemic overhead.
- Awards: Integrated under his broader award-winning technical delivery footprint at Capgemini.
3. Supply Chain Integration & Data Pipelines
- Project Name: Enterprise Supply Chain Architecture Initiative
- Year: 2016 – Present (Cyclical phases)
- Location: Birmingham, Manchester, and client facilities
- Technology: Complex Agile SCRUM, Enterprise Architecture Planning, Supply Chain Tracking
- IT Languages / Products: Enterprise Middleware, Hybrid Cloud
- Customer: Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)
- Budget: Multi-million pound corporate digital budget
- Project Overview: Managed automated manufacturing and logistics supply chain data tracking pipelines by linking siloed automotive databases into high-visibility dashboards.
- Highlights: Highly commended by the Head of Integration Development for orchestrating accurate planning, handling cross-team sprint interdependencies, and fostering excellent stakeholder collaboration.
- Political Landscape: Prompted by shifting global automotive markets and complex multi-country logistics regulations that demanded real-time transparency across assembly pipelines.
- Awards: Aligned under Capgemini’s internal delivery recognitions.
4. Heathrow Airport Portfolio Management
- Project Name: Single Customer View (SCV) & Airport Portals Integration
- Year: Assigned January 2017
- Location: Heathrow (Compass Centre)
- Technology: Portfolio Management, Platform Integration, Structured Governance Gates
- IT Languages / Products: Salesforce Ecosystem (SCV), Middleware
- Customer: Heathrow Airport
- Budget: Managed an initial portfolio of £1.3 Million tracking through 8 rigid stage gates.
- Project Overview: Served in a client-side Senior Project Lead (SPL) role to monitor solution designs, project budgets, and supplier deliverables across distinct airport portal systems.
- Highlights: Successfully navigated the complex Gate 3 development phase to isolate exact solution designs and commercial costs for external vendors.
- Political Landscape: Driven by highly competitive aviation retail frameworks and the commercial necessity to map a complete view of passenger travel habits.
- Awards: Contributed to his long-standing portfolio of certified delivery excellence.
5. Royal Mail Group Data Centre Migration
- Project Name: Business Integration Gateway (BIG) Interface & Middleware Migration
- Year: May 2016 – October 2016 (Delivered ahead of Peak Trading freeze)
- Location: London / Enterprise Data Centres
- Technology: Dual Data Centre Migration, Middleware Application Refactoring
- IT Languages / Products: UNIX Shell Scripting, IBM ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), File Transmission Protocols
- Customer: Royal Mail Group (RMG)
- Budget: £4.3 Million contract
- Project Overview: Directed a massive engineering sprint to securely migrate over 1,100 interfaces connecting internal applications and external B2B trading partners between two data centres.
- Highlights: Lead a team of 90 to 100+ Capgemini staff. Upgraded outdated legacy software versions into stable instances under strict time constraints.
- Political Landscape: The project carried an immoveable deadline to finish before October to bypass the organization’s high-stakes “Peak Trading” annual change freeze. Any disruption would threaten national postal commerce.
- Awards: Highlighted as an award-winning migration project within Capgemini’s internal portfolio histories.
6. Air Traffic Mobile Infrastructure Project
- Project Name: Secure Real-Time Airspace Applications
- Year: January 2016 – 2017
- Location: UK-wide Air Traffic facilities / Manchester
- Technology: Agile SCRUM, Mobile Application Development, Sensitive Data Pipelines
- IT Languages / Products: Apple iOS SDK, Real-Time Data Feeds
- Customer: NATS (National Air Traffic Services)
- Budget: Enterprise digital innovation budget
- Project Overview: Managed the build and delivery of custom iOS apps displaying live, public-facing, and highly sensitive internal military views of current UK airspace.
- Highlights: Maintained seamless Agile SCRUM ceremonies to manage rigorous stakeholder expectations between civilian and military interests.
- Political Landscape: Bound closely by national security mandates, requiring the highest tiers of secure data separation on mobile devices.
- Awards: Part of the core work that established his Capgemini Engagement Manager pedigree.
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