Summary
Steven Hocking is a senior solutions architect and seasoned engineering leader with nine years in senior technical roles and over two decades of software experience overall. Currently architecting workforce and domain solutions at International Personal Finance, he blends hands-on system design with cross-domain impact assessments, security collaboration, and AWS cost stewardship. Steven has a proven track record of growing and mentoring teams, shaping directorates, and delivering high-throughput systems—such as quote-generation services that handled billions of finance quotes per day. He is comfortable leading distributed teams and bringing stalled projects back to best practices, having done so at PwC and elsewhere. A pragmatic technologist, he prioritizes resilient, maintainable architectures while championing kindness and individual respect as drivers of better outcomes. Based in Stockport, he combines product-focused delivery with a steady emphasis on operational excellence and measurable KPIs.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Software Engineering, BSc (Hons), Software Engineering at University of Central Lancashire