Summary
Scott James is a pragmatic technology leader with over two decades of engineering and architecture experience, currently serving as Head of Technology Engineering at T. Rowe Price where he leads large-scale replatforming of brownfield estates. He blends hands-on delivery—Java, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud—with enterprise strategy, having driven multi-hundred-million dollar cost and efficiency programs at Credit Suisse. A specialist in banking technology (fixed income, credit derivatives, front office/STP), he builds pragmatic governance—minimum bar standards and technical biases—that empower engineers while protecting the business. He has represented banks in industry bodies and the Java Community Process, and mentors fintech startups, signaling a rare mix of regulatory, open-standard and startup-facing experience. Colleagues know him as an experimentation-minded practitioner who still “plays with things” to validate architecture choices in production.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PGCE Teacher Training, PGCE Teacher Training at University of Warwick
English