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Lead Engineer / Architect

Company Context

Blackthorn Technologies — a technology firm delivering solutions for the criminal justice sector. This contract role involved architecting and delivering a secure, distributed case management platform for UK law enforcement, integrating directly with Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) systems.

Summary

Architected and delivered a secure, distributed case management platform for UK law enforcement, integrating directly with Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) systems. Combined domain modelling, regulatory alignment, and platform leadership to support critical criminal justice workflows. Delivered on Windows Azure with DDD, HATEOAS APIs, and continuous deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Designed a greenfield compliance and evidence management system using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to model core bounded contexts and define a ubiquitous language with CPS stakeholders
  • Architected a RESTful, HATEOAS-style API layer to enable clean decoupling between web clients and backend services, improving maintainability and audit traceability
  • Delivered the system on Windows Azure, supporting geo-distribution, elastic scaling, and managed identity integration
  • Built the platform using ASP.NET MVC 4, WebAPI, MongoDB, and SQL Server, balancing consistency and performance across structured and unstructured data domains
  • Led security architecture and SC-cleared delivery to ensure system resilience, encryption at rest/in transit, and fine-grained role-based access control
  • Introduced continuous deployment pipelines with Octopus Deploy, enabling safe, testable releases into production-like staging environments
  • Recruited and led a team of polyglot engineers versed in SOLID principles, test automation, and Agile delivery

Outcomes

  • Delivered a greenfield compliance and evidence management system for UK law enforcement integrating with CPS systems
  • Achieved geo-distributed deployment on Windows Azure with elastic scaling and managed identity integration
  • Established continuous deployment pipelines enabling safe, testable releases into production-like staging environments
  • Ensured system resilience with encryption at rest/in transit and fine-grained role-based access control under SC clearance

Reusable CV Bullets

  • Designed a greenfield compliance and evidence management system using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to model core bounded contexts and define a ubiquitous language with CPS stakeholders
  • Architected a RESTful, HATEOAS-style API layer to enable clean decoupling between web clients and backend services, improving maintainability and audit traceability
  • Delivered the system on Windows Azure, supporting geo-distribution, elastic scaling, and managed identity integration
  • Built the platform using ASP.NET MVC 4, WebAPI, MongoDB, and SQL Server, balancing consistency and performance across structured and unstructured data domains
  • Led security architecture and SC-cleared delivery to ensure system resilience, encryption at rest/in transit, and fine-grained role-based access control
  • Introduced continuous deployment pipelines with Octopus Deploy, enabling safe, testable releases into production-like staging environments
  • Recruited and led a team of polyglot engineers versed in SOLID principles, test automation, and Agile delivery

Evidence / Source Notes

  • Source: verbose CV; reconciled with JobVia export (madu_alikor_export.json).
  • Confidence: high — detailed responsibilities, tools, patterns, and outcomes available