About Ethan Hitchcock, Solutions Architect. Ethan

Own end-to-end solution design, technical delivery, and integration for business-critical digital systems within the financial services sector. Architect, build, and deliver integrated platforms, client-facing applications, reporting systems, and operational utilities across regulated environments.

• Act as Scrum Master and technical Product Owner — translating complex requirements into clear deliverables, embedding Agile delivery, and serving as the primary systems interface between clients, product, developers, and operations.
• Design and implement integrations across APIs, enterprise services, SFTP pipelines, SQL databases, cloud-hosted services, and third-party platforms; contribute hands-on to application logic, data models, automation, and reporting.
• Balance trade-offs between speed, cost, technical risk, and compliance; use operational metrics and stakeholder feedback to prioritise improvements on revenue-generating, compliance-sensitive systems.

Delivered high-impact consulting across education, manufacturing, logistics, non-profit, and government sectors — integrated reporting, automation, and operational support covering finance, loan management, logistics, factory throughput, and forecasting.

• Consolidated and modelled data from multiple ERP and operational systems for planning, control, and executive decision-making.
• Delivered measurable operational outcomes, including material reductions in inventory holding, storage costs, and lead times.
• Operated independently across discovery, solution design, build, delivery, and stakeholder handover.

Six years delivering data-driven systems, decision support, and operational improvements across manufacturing, finance, healthcare, environmental monitoring, telematics, real estate, and professional services — with deep exposure to system design and integration.

• Designed and implemented reporting and analytics solutions; built automated financial and operational reporting including multi-entity consolidation and management reporting.
• Delivered workflow automation and supporting tools for planning, procurement, logistics, and operational visibility; helped leaders clarify strategy and align systems with organisational goals.
• Broad exposure to cloud platforms, data pipelines, visualisation tools, and collaborative delivery practices.

Early consulting focused on automated data collection, transformation, and visualisation to support market analysis and decision-making.

• Built automated marketing databases using web scraping for targeted outreach and competitor analysis.
• Applied programming and data analysis to deliver actionable recommendations for SMBs.

Focus on evaluating and improving information systems, requirements modelling, and IT business alignment. Key competencies include requirements elicitation and management, process analysis and modelling, data modelling, stakeholder communication and solution design.

Engaged in structured programmes focused on developing communication and leadership skills through practical experience in public speaking, constructive evaluation and meeting management.