Summary
Nicholas Piper is a Data Programme Manager with 16 years’ experience delivering complex IT, data integration and business change programmes across defence, financial services and insurance. He has led multi-vendor, multi-workstream deliveries—most recently shaping digital thread/twin and data programmes at BAE Systems—combining rigorous RAID/RAG risk controls with practical stakeholder and supplier management. Comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall environments, he has run large teams of project and delivery specialists and overseen integrated SaaS and infrastructure rollouts involving dozens of system integrations. A former British Army senior planner and risk lead, he brings disciplined programme governance and operational resilience honed in high-stakes deployments. He is known for proactively managing costs and timelines while translating technical complexity into clear business cases and governance for project boards.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer