What we deliver runs in production. Not in a PowerPoint.
Technology leadership, delivered as an independent practice. Engagements span PE-backed portfolios, financial services, hospitality and growing enterprises, from interim CTO and architecture services through production AI delivery.
Programmes delivered for
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A stalled transformation looks like the left panel: fragmented ownership, broken connections, no clear flow. Pelotita rebuilds it as the right panel: aligned, sequenced, shipped.
They fail because nobody senior enough was holding the architecture, the vendors, the governance and the board narrative all at once. By the time the symptoms show (missed milestones, ballooning budgets, technical debt nobody owns), the cost of a course correction is already enormous.
Pelotita is built for that moment.
Every engagement is led by a senior principal accountable from discovery through handover. Hybrid delivery teams (onshore/offshore) and AI-augmented delivery capacity are added when scope demands it.
For programmes that have lost momentum, missed milestones or burned through their original sponsor narrative.
When you need senior technology leadership now: between hires, through a critical phase or to bridge a sudden departure.
Get from “we should be doing something with AI” to a production system that moves a real number.
Fixed-scope engagements when you need senior architectural judgement on a specific decision or estate.
For founder-led businesses where commercial ambition has outpaced the technology estate. Typical pattern: siloed operational systems across CRM, marketing, reservations, finance, HRIS, content, contact centre and infrastructure; manual processes carrying volume the business has outgrown; no single view of the customer; no clear path between today’s stack and tomorrow’s strategy.
The four services above describe how clients buy Pelotita. The capabilities below describe what gets shipped inside those engagements. Each is a defined unit of work with named outputs. Not a list of buzzwords or skills.
A working Architecture Review Board with chairing rhythm, first ten Architectural Decision Records, target-state principles, anti-patterns register and escalation routes. Hands over to your in-house lead after 8–12 weeks.
A defensible delivery roadmap rebuilt from current ground truth: dependency map, risk register, sequenced milestones and a steering-committee rhythm that exposes problems early instead of burying them.
A six-week diagnostic establishing whether the organisation can actually deploy GenAI at production grade. Covers data foundations, governance, security posture, PII exposure, vendor lock-in risk and a ranked use-case shortlist with effort/value scoring.
Production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation or agentic AI orchestration shipped end-to-end, on AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI or hybrid. Real evaluation harness, real PII guardrails, real ops handover. Not a demo.
Strangler-fig migration design for monoliths or fragmented estates: domain-driven decomposition, anti-corruption layers, API contract reconstruction, sequenced cutover plan. Designed to keep value flowing while debt comes down.
On-prem to cloud-first migration design with FinOps controls baked in from day one. AWS, Azure or hybrid. Right-sizing, reserved-capacity planning, runaway-cost guardrails and a chargeback model the finance team will actually accept.
Foundational data architecture for organisations whose AI ambitions are blocked by fragmented data. Domain-owned data products, metadata management, master data resolution and a consolidated Single Customer View ready for personalisation and AI.
When the in-house team is overwhelmed, Pelotita assembles a vetted onshore/offshore squad of architects, engineers, QA and DevOps, all under principal-led governance. AI-augmented (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) where it accelerates delivery. Transparent rates, named CVs.
A 6–8 week fractional engagement that takes a founder-led business from “we know our technology is holding us back” to a defensible modernisation blueprint. Covers commercial, operational and technical discovery; gap and impact analysis; three IT strategy options with cost-benefit modelling; target operating model; target architecture; and a sequenced delivery roadmap aligned to budget.
They burn cycles, lose credibility with the people who actually build, and leave your transformation no closer to delivery. Every recommendation we write has to survive contact with the engineering team in the room.
The choice between monolith and microservices is a hiring plan. The choice between AWS and Azure is a five-year cost curve. We don’t pretend these are technical conversations; we hold them as the strategic conversations they actually are.
Every framework, runbook, ADR and pattern we leave behind is designed for your team to run without us. Consultancies that engineer dependency aren’t partners. They’re a tax.
Most failed enterprise GenAI programmes failed at the data layer, not the model layer. We say no to AI engagements until the underlying foundations are ready, even when that costs us scope.
The pattern across these: programmes that were stuck, mis-architected or being built without senior technical judgement, until Pelotita engaged.
Head of Architecture & AI Services · 2024–present
Engagement scope. Senior interim leadership of a PE-mandated digital transformation programme following architectural turnover. Pelotita assumed accountability for architecture, delivery roadmap and AI workstreams across the commercial engine estate.
Delivery. Forensic review of the technical estate; reversal of unstable strategic decisions; re-architected delivery roadmap; decoupled middleware layer engineered to reconstruct legacy API contracts and aggregate fragmented provider services with zero disruption to downstream consumers. Institutionalised the Architecture Review Board and Architectural Decision Records. Designed and shipped production Bedrock-based RAG support automation; SLM-powered digital concierge on eKiosks; agentic AI orchestration for room-and-package matching; consolidated Single Customer View across identity, reservations and marketing data. The programme that had lost momentum was re-baselined, re-governed and delivered.
Head of Digital Architecture Services · 2023–2024
Engagement scope. Architecture leadership across the UK’s largest hotel brand, mid-replatform across PMS, CRM, IAM, HR and Finance, with multiple greenfield digital ventures competing for the same architectural attention.
Delivery. Defined architectural principles, patterns and guardrails for the digital and commercial estate. Led the Oracle BART to Opera PMS migration alongside Dynamics D365 and Auth0 IAM rollout. Formed hybrid onshore/offshore delivery teams. Ran client workshops, hackathons and technical spikes to evaluate emerging technology for business fit including AR virtual tours, GenAI concierge and digital kiosks.
Head of Data Platform Services · 2022–2023
Engagement scope. Senior platform leadership at Tonomus, NEOM’s technology arm, during the productisation and rollout of its first data mesh platform (NEOS) to NEOM partner enterprises and sectors.
Delivery. Built the client engagement unit from zero to thirty professionals in under six months. Designed and delivered tailored data mesh solutions across six concurrent client engagements. Led the design authority, programme architects and engineering leads. Defined the data products (atomic and composite), governance framework, metadata management and end-to-end integration testing strategy. Led the CISO process design for the NEOS platform and integrated DPO and compliance into client onboarding workstreams.
Chief Architect & Solutions Lead · 2019–2022
Engagement scope. Two engagements at the world’s largest commercial real estate firm. First as Chief Architect leading integration architecture for a $1B+ pharmaceutical enterprise client mobilisation, the largest in CBRE’s history. Recalled for a second engagement to establish the strategic enablement office and accelerate greenfield programmes.
Delivery. Architected the client mobilisation end-to-end: integration strategy, custom solutions, cloud infrastructure, data architecture and visualisation, technology landscaping, delivery roadmaps and UX journeys. Led the consolidation of multiple ERP platforms (Dynamics AX, Oracle, SAGE, SAP S/4HANA) onto SAP Cloud. Second engagement: syndicated thought leadership across global FM accounts; built a centre of excellence and sector-centric design references.
Head of Digital Architecture Services · 2016–2017
Engagement scope. Architecture leadership of a flagship API consolidation platform for a UK consumer credit provider serving 1.2M users monthly, under strict PCI DSS and ISO 27001 constraints, with GDPR compliance and credit-aggregator integration for new brand launches.
Delivery. Designed the API consolidation platform on Azure ServiceFabric. Implemented Zero Trust principles, custom AES128 encryption, SHA256 digital signing and federated identity (SAML/OAuth 2.0). Multi-region distribution with Traffic Manager DR. Integrated to Experian, FirstData, CallCredit, Parseq and SalesForce. Led aggregator integration with MoneySuperMarket and ClearScore enabling pre-populated credit applications.
Cloud & Integration Architecture Lead · 2020–2021
Engagement scope. Cloud and integration architecture leadership during the national pandemic response, delivering the enterprise technology platform hosting all COVID-19 related programmes with automated provisioning, cross-cloud IAM and SaaS/PaaS integration at speed.
Delivery. Led cloud strategy and platform delivery: automated cloud architecture provisioning, scalability, availability and analytics. Designed cross-cloud IAM (SSO, SCIM, JIT provisioning). Architected large-scale departmental cloud and data migrations. Acted as integration SME for Slack Enterprise Grid, MS Teams and GitHub Enterprise. Contributing member of the Test & Trace Technical Design Authority. Established the ITSM and support function and authored back-office runbooks.
Each engagement above is summarised at the level commercial confidentiality permits. The specifics, including quantitative outcomes and engagement structure, are discussed under NDA during discovery.
Every engagement starts with a forensic review. We don’t arrive with a methodology to sell. The architecture, the politics, the vendor estate, the team topology and the board narrative all get examined before we recommend anything.
Strategy that engineering can’t implement is worse than useless. Every recommendation is jointly authored with the delivery team, expressed in vocabulary they’ll act on, bounded by what calendar and budget will bear. If they can’t run with it on Monday, we haven’t finished writing it.
We stay through delivery, not just discovery. Architecture decisions get tested against production reality. Course corrections happen weekly, not quarterly. The team learns by doing the work alongside us.
Every artefact we leave behind, frameworks, ADRs, runbooks, governance, is designed so your team can run it without us. No platform lock-in. No managed-service tail. No per-seat retainer. If you bring us back, it’s because the next problem needs us, not because we engineered the dependency.
Pelotita is an independent technology practice serving PE-backed portfolios, financial services, hospitality, retail and growing enterprises. The practice exists because mid-market and growth-stage companies routinely face the same problem the large firms charge millions to address: transformation programmes that need senior judgement, fast, with credibility on both sides of the executive/engineering divide. They cannot, or should not, buy that capability at Big Four prices.
The model is deliberately small and senior. Every engagement is led personally by a principal accountable for the outcome. Not staffed to a junior team after the pitch. The practice combines twenty years of accumulated work across executive architecture, hands-on engineering, AI delivery and the messy reality of stakeholder politics that determines whether a transformation actually lands.
When scope demands additional capacity, Pelotita assembles vetted hybrid delivery squads of senior engineers, architects, designers and AI specialists drawn from a trusted network, integrated under the same principal-led governance. AI-augmented delivery (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) is built into the workflow where it accelerates output without compromising quality.
The practice operates as a UK limited company with over two decades of trading history, an active SC clearance for regulated and public-sector work and a delivery footprint that spans the UK, EU, US and Middle East.
Every engagement is priced individually based on scope, duration and outcome rather than against a rate card. Discovery calls end with a written proposal covering scope, deliverables, milestones and commercials, usually within 72 hours. Pelotita does not bill for proposal work, onboarding or commercial conversations. Engagements are structured as outside-IR35 service delivery against defined scope and outcomes.
UK-based, delivering globally. Past engagements have spanned the UK, Saudi Arabia (NEOM) and multi-region programmes across the EU and US. Remote-first delivery with onsite presence as the engagement requires.
Discovery establishes the scope envelope, the assumptions it relies on and a defined change process. When the brief moves (and on transformation work, it always does), changes are agreed in writing with revised commercials. Pelotita prefers full-term interim contracts to chunked SoWs precisely because they remove this friction and keep the focus on outcomes.
Yes. A growing share of engagements begin with a fractional Technology Discovery for founder-led businesses whose technology estate has not kept pace with commercial growth. Typical engagement: 2 days a week over 6 to 8 weeks, ending in a complete modernisation blueprint covering insights, strategy options, cost model, target architecture and roadmap. Some businesses take the blueprint and execute themselves; many ask Pelotita to lead the delivery as a follow-on engagement.
Both, depending on what the engagement needs. Most weeks involve architectural design, governance and stakeholder management, but the practice also writes code, runs proofs-of-concept, debugs critical incidents and engineers AI prototypes when speed matters. The bias is firmly toward shipping, not slide decks.
Both. When scope demands it, Pelotita assembles hybrid onshore/offshore delivery teams that are vetted, managed and billed through the practice. AI-augmented delivery (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) is integrated where it accelerates output. Every additional resource is brought in transparently with named CVs and clear commercial terms.
Financial services and fintech, hospitality, PE-backed portfolios, commercial real estate, public sector, online gaming and digital/e-commerce transformations across multiple verticals. SC Cleared for UK regulated and public-sector work.
Depends on current engagement load. Discovery calls are usually offered within 48 hours of inquiry, written proposals within 72 hours of discovery. Mobilisation is typically 2–4 weeks from contract signature.
Thirty minutes, no slide deck, no obligation. Bring the messy reality. That’s the part Pelotita is built for.