Avadhesh Mishra

Senior Principal Specialist Delivery – Enterprise & Consulting | Program / Delivery Management | Cloud & Security Architecture

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Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom • +44 7956368638 • avadhesh.cs@gmail.com

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Profile

Technology and delivery executive with 20+ years of experience leading large-scale, high-value transformation programmes across Tier-1 banking, global consulting, and UK public sector organisations. Proven track record delivering multi-billion-dollar banking programmes and multi-million-pound government initiatives, combining programme governance, stakeholder leadership, and risk management with deep hands-on technical credibility in cloud, DevSecOps, and security architecture.

Highlights

  • Global programme & release governance (business, production, operations, vendors)
  • Multi-region delivery planning aligned to regulatory timelines
  • DevSecOps, Zero Trust, IAM/PAM, vulnerability management & audit readiness
  • Mentoring & enablement: KT for new joiners, graduates and interns

Projects & Major Engagements

Ministry of Defence (UK) — Enterprise Identity & Access Management

Principal Delivery Consultant / DevSecOps Lead (Mastek UK)

Led delivery of the Non-Employee Onboarding sub-program within a multi-million-pound national IAM modernisation initiative. Implemented secure DevSecOps pipelines, operating runbooks, and cloud migration practices in a highly regulated defence environment, improving audit readiness and operational resilience.

Identity & Access ManagementDevSecOpsSecure CI/CDGovernance & CompliancePublic Sector

UK Home Office / Leidos — National Biometrics Cloud Migration

Cloud & DevSecOps Architect

Supported migration and convergence of critical UK biometric systems (IDENT1 & IABS) from legacy mainframe infrastructure to AWS. Led DB2-to-PostgreSQL migration, AWS control plane setup, secure hybrid networking, and CI/CD automation, enabling a scalable, resilient, and compliant platform for law enforcement and immigration services.

AWS Cloud MigrationDevSecOpsSecure NetworkingData MigrationNational-Critical Systems

JPMorgan Chase UK — Custody & Asset Servicing Platform Transformation

Lead DevSecOps / Security & Platform Architect

Delivered technology leadership within a multi-billion-dollar global Direct Custody & Clearance transformation programme. Led DevSecOps transformation, platform modernisation, private cloud migration, and global release governance for custody and asset servicing platforms across regulated markets, improving release reliability and audit readiness.

DevSecOpsPlatform EngineeringKubernetesResilience & SRERegulated Banking

Experience

Principal Delivery Consultant – Enterprise & Consulting • Mastek UK

2021 – Present
  • Provide CTO-level delivery leadership for multi-million-pound UK public sector programmes spanning defence, identity, and cloud transformation.
  • Lead programme planning, stakeholder engagement, and delivery governance across government departments, integrators, and platform teams.
  • Run release planning, delivery assurance, and executive reviews, ensuring security, compliance, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor delivery leads, engineers, graduates, and interns; deliver structured KT and onboarding playbooks.

Lead DevSecOps / Security & Platform Architect / Project Delivery Lead • JPMorgan Chase UK

2012 – 2019
  • Delivery leadership within a multi-billion-dollar global Direct Custody & Clearance transformation programme; owned oversight for 20+ applications across UK, US, India, and Middle East.
  • Chaired global release planning and governance calls with business, production management, infrastructure, security, QA, and vendors; drove go/no-go and production readiness.
  • Led large-scale private cloud migration initiatives, modernising custody platforms onto JPMorgan’s internal private cloud to improve scalability and resilience.
  • Served as Line-of-Business Risk Champion; maintained risk registers and remediated audit, vulnerability scanning and penetration-testing findings.
  • Awarded Best Team (2015–2016) for enterprise-scale release automation; led KT and onboarding for new joiners, graduates, and interns.

Technology Lead / Architect • Cognizant India & UK

2006 – 2012
  • Delivered banking transformation programmes for global investment banking clients; led application modernisation, reporting, and reconciliation platforms.
  • Converted POCs into funded engagements (including $50K+ greenfield project and a million-dollar reporting programme); led platform migration and offshore team scaling.

Certifications

CISSP (ISC²)CISM (ISACA)CCSPPMP (PMI)AWS DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalMicrosoft Azure Fundamentals

Core Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (landing zones, governance, security, VPC, S3, EKS/ECS), Azure (Entra, governance)
  • Platforms: Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native operating models; observability & monitoring
  • DevSecOps: CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), GitOps, automation, Jenkins, Ansible, Vault
  • Security: Zero Trust, IAM/SSO, PAM, threat modelling, vulnerability management, audit readiness
  • Engineering: Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, React/Next.js, Python (Django/FastAPI), PostgreSQL/Oracle

Contact

For enquiries, you can email avadhesh.cs@gmail.com or use the form below.