Jerome
Jones
Enterprise and solutions architect. Architecture and engineering leadership. Fractional CTO.
I take architectural ownership of fragmented systems landscapes, decide how technology should be built and integrated, and make sure it gets delivered.
My career runs through intelligence. Commodity, financial and B2B market intelligence platforms today, geospatial intelligence and data science earlier. Much of my current work is with private-equity-backed intelligence businesses, where proprietary data is the value engine and the technology story has to survive diligence-grade scrutiny.
Three things, not everything.
Technical due diligence
I assess an estate, a vendor or a build plan and say what it is worth, where the risk sits, and what it costs to put right. Pre-deal for investors, post-deal for boards.
Data platform architecture
I design the platform and own the decisions, not the code. Target state, consolidation, migration, and the governance that has to hold once the programme ends.
AI and agentic delivery
Not model research. Where AI belongs in a product or a delivery process, and the guardrails that keep it standing in a regulated environment.
How I work.
Three engagement shapes. Fixed price wherever the scope allows it, so you know the cost before the work starts.
Technical assessment
Fixed price, scoped to your deal timetable. You get a written assessment: what is there, what it is worth, where the risk sits and what it costs to put right.
Architecture and delivery plan
Fixed price, typically two to three weeks. You get a document your team can build from and your investors can understand. The paid entry point to most of my engagements.
Fractional CTO
Ongoing architecture ownership on a day rate. I work alongside your team rather than above it, so the team owns the outcome rather than the consultant.
Everything is scoped and quoted against your brief, not sold off a rate card. If the budget and the problem do not match, I will tell you that in the first conversation rather than the third.
Selected engagements
2025 to present
A portfolio of private-equity-backed B2B intelligence businesses
Data due diligence and data transformation across four sponsors plus buy-side diligence, from pre-deal through greenfield architecture, platform consolidation and delivery. Azure and Microsoft estates, Snowflake and dbt, Databricks consolidation, and an on-premises agentic AI advisor including local LLM inference.
2025
A regulated German B2B energy procurement platform
A multi-supplier commission engine serving industrial and commercial customers through energy brokers. I authored the 115-page system, data, security and infrastructure architecture against the national regulatory context, delivered as the reference for the build.
2023
A regulated SaaS aviation business
I inherited a 25-person engineering function that had not completed a sprint in two years. Rather than impose a process, I coached the senior engineers to interrogate their own until they found and owned the fix. Cadence was restored, and it held because the team owned it.
2018 to 2022
A government-backed national innovation centre
Technical Design Authority on multi-year, multi-million-pound ESA and UKSA programmes, then head of the geospatial data science and engineering function. Designed a satellite imagery and machine learning solution detecting illegal gold mining in the Colombian Amazon.
- BCS Practitioner Certificates in Enterprise and Solution Architecture, 2015
- ITIL Certificate in IT Service Management, BCS, 2012
- MSc Computing in Earth Sciences, Keele University
- BSc (Hons) Applied Geology, Oxford Brookes University
- Expert-Vetted on Upwork, with a 100 per cent Job Success Score
Tell me what you are trying to decide.
An estate you have inherited, a platform you are consolidating, or a build plan you want a second opinion on. The first conversation is at no cost.