Summary
James Snape is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of software and management experience, currently serving as Group Manager at Avanade and previously leading engineering and senior management teams at Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting. He brings deep domain expertise across healthcare, retail, capital markets (FX, rates, credit), telecoms, and media, coupling technical architecture and delivery oversight with client-facing program leadership. His background includes solutions architecture for BNP Paribas and hands-on consultancy at Microsoft, reflecting a career that bridges enterprise systems, BI, and application development. Based in Bournemouth, he combines R&D roots from Sony Broadcast with later program and product management experience, giving him a rare perspective on both hardware-adjacent media engineering and large-scale software delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who navigates complex regulated environments and cross-functional teams to turn domain knowledge into deployable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, BEng at Kings College London
Imperial College London
Repton School, Derbyshire