Summary
Mark Ryall is a seasoned enterprise architecture leader with 11 years in senior technology roles and over two decades of progressive experience across Reuters, Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv, LSEG and Kantar. Currently Director of Enterprise Architecture at FTSE Russell, he has repeatedly built and led architecture and solution teams to deliver cloud, data and real-time platforms at global scale. His strengths span technology strategy, data strategy, cloud partnerships and governance, with a track record of turning complex real‑time and distribution systems into resilient, product-aligned platforms. Practical and strategic, he blends programme and transformation delivery with hands-on architecture authority and organizational design. Based in Milton Keynes, he pairs rigorous Computer Science and Mathematics foundations with a pragmatic, people-first approach to scaling engineering capability. Colleagues would note his dry GitHub bio shorthand “Grump” belies a collaborative leader who focuses on measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Computer Science and Mathematics, 2:1 Computer Science and Mathematics at The University of Manchester