Will Nicholson

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About Will Nicholson

Product Technical Architect Senior software architect leading in our product engineering division, coordinating our engineering communities, working within the CTO group to steer technical direction, contributing to our excellence in product development. Mentor and coach, developing and delivering our technical learning and CPD programs. I've played a key role in building Alfa's engineering capabilities in the last five years through engineer and consultant recruitment, selection and training. As an agile practitioner, advocate and evangelist, I coordinate our engineering communities, supporting and ensuring their quality standards and continuous improvement. Working with customer-facing teams in the UK, US and Nordics to deliver large-scale business and systems change programmes for 15 years, I've worked in and managed small, large and distributed development teams, designing, delivering and supporting product features, measuring and improving processes, practices and supporting infrastructure and tooling. As Product Technical Architect, for 5 years I've provided expert support to clients and colleagues across our global engineering and consulting teams as well as cross-functional support for sales and business development. Tech: Java SE 6/7/8/11, Groovy, Scala Java EE: JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JMS, JMX, JNDI, JAAS Hibernate, Infinispan, HazelCast, JGroups, Drools, Guice, Spring, AspectJ, Javassist, ASM TDD/BDD, JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Spock WebSphere, WildFly, JBoss EAP, WebLogic, Tomcat, Jetty Maven, Gradle, Ant, Bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus Lifecycle Scrum (CSM)