Clive Charlton

Experience

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  Interface Marketing

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Developer
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  BT Global Services

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2007

  • Technical Design Authority

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007

  • Designer

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2007
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  American Express

  Aug 2007 - Apr 2008

  Solutions Architect
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  ING Bank

  Jan 2008 - Apr 2009

  Websphere specialist
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  BNP Paribas Fortis

  Apr 2009 - Jan 2010

  WebSphere Portal Developer

  WebSphere portal developer for the online Global Cash Management application.

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  Old Mutual

  Jan 2010 - Jun 2017

  Enterprise Architect

  • Provide long-term management of the Architecture Strategy. • Define and maintain architectural standards for the development, deployment and management of application, information, communication and technology infrastructure. • Govern and assist solution development to ensure conformance to the architectural standards. • Govern and assist in the Life Cycle Management of solution to promote adherence to company Principles and synergy across the group. • Govern development, evolution and maintenance of a detailed IT architecture through the involvement of relevant stakeholders, as well as key internal and external forums. • Provide input to company IT Strategy, Policies and Principles. • Ensures that the IT architecture aligns with business strategy and is presented and approved through the company IT Architecture processes Show less

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jul 2017 - Nov 2022

  Head of Solution Architecture for Middle East & Africa at Amazon Web Services. I am proud to be a member of the Public Sector Solution Architecture team within the EMEA AWS business, helping shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad usage of AWS's utility computing services (such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront) within public sector organizations and the larger ecosystem that supports them.

  • Head of Solution Architecture - Middle East & Africa

    Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Aerospace tech lead for Middle East & Africa

    Apr 2020 - Nov 2022

  • Head of Solution Architecture - Sub-Saharan Africa

    Oct 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Solutions Architect Team Lead

    Aug 2018 - Sept 2019

  • Solutions Architect

    Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
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  Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research

  Oct 2019 - Nov 2022

  Expert panel advisor
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  Digital Earth Africa

  Oct 2020 - Nov 2022

  Digital Earth Africa - Technical Advisory Committee

  I am very excited and privileged to be invited by Digital Earth Africa to sit on the Technical Advisory Committee. Providing decision ready data for governments and organisations throughout Africa so we can make the right choices for our people is crucial.

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  African Rainbow Capital Cloud

  Nov 2022 - Apr 2024

  Chief Executive Officer

  African Rainbow Capital (ARC), formed in 2015, is a fully Black owned and controlled company of significant scale focusing on opportunities in the South African and African financial services and diversified investments (non-financial) industries. ARC is focused on acquiring a shareholding in businesses that deliver exceptional returns on equity.ARC Cloud is a subsidiary of ARC formed with the purpose of advising and assisting the ARC group portfolio companies on cloud adoption and strategy. Clive’s role as CEO is to establish the ARC Cloud business by leading/supporting the AWS cloud adoption within the ARC portfolio of companies, numbering ~450 companies including TymeBank (Africa’s only profitable digital bank), Sanlam (Africa’s largest non-banking financial services firm), Rain (a mobile network operator in South Africa), AlexForbes (a financial services company specialising in short-term and long-term insurance, health, retirement and multi-manager investment solutions) among many others. Show less

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  NTT DATA

  Apr 2024 - now

  Director: Head of AWS

  The Director (Go-to-Market Practice Solutions), Head of AWS operates in Africa and takes guidance from the senior leadership team, globally and particularly within the Middle East & Africa region.Key roles and responsibilities include:• Contribute to the creation of the MEA AWS practice strategy and develop the strategy for the AWS practice to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery.• Lead and manage the transformation and growth for selling the AWS practice across MEA.• Own and optimize the solution portfolio investment for the owned business solutions for clients, aligning with the business strategies and priorities.• Identify and create demand for solutions that drive sales and ensure the financial viability for deployment, preparing and reviewing cost estimates.• Lead and manage a team of individual contributors and managers and ensure performance goals are constantly reviewed and achieved.• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to create, implement and manage the technology roadmap.• Work with relevant stakeholders to document and manage the formal plan of record including business outcomes, release plan, investment plan, resource plan, assumptions, risks and issues.• Lead and conduct solution design reviews to ensure capacity to provide the solution and the profitability to the business.• Make recommendation on the development of the service level agreements (SLA) and conduct the required reviews to ensure deliverables are met.• Define and implement standards and tools for new solution architecture and deliver continuous delivery frameworks that will promote and establish a reliable and competitive AWS practice.• Recommend continuous integration for tooling to support all regions with automated build, test and deployment with a focus on continuous improvement in quality delivery.• Specify market requirements for current and future products or solutions by conducting market research supported by client engagement sessions. Show less