Pragmatic Solution Architecture for cloud, data & digital transformation.
Red Snapper Solutions Ltd provides hands-on architecture leadership for organisations that need to modernise legacy platforms, unlock value from data, and deliver sustainable digital journeys across insurance, banking and asset management.
Independent solution architecture with real-world delivery experience
Red Snapper Solutions is led by Solution Architect Simon Hulbert, bringing over two decades of experience delivering complex change from greenfield platforms to large-scale digital and cloud transformations.
Approach
The consultancy combines deep technical understanding with pragmatic architectural design to deliver solutions that are both sustainable and value-driven.
- Start from business outcomes and realistic constraints.
- Balance modern architecture patterns with legacy environments.
- Favour reusable patterns and clear decision-making over one-off designs.
- Support delivery teams end-to-end across the SDLC.
Typical client challenges
- Modernising legacy systems without disrupting business-critical operations.
- Moving to AWS and cloud-native architectures in a controlled, staged way.
- Building event-driven and data-centric platforms for analytics and self-service.
- Unlocking value from unstructured data using AI, search and graph technologies.
Consulting services for change-driven organisations
Flexible engagement models – from short advisory pieces and architecture reviews to hands-on delivery leadership for multi-year transformation programmes.
Digital & Cloud Transformation Architecture
Architecture leadership for major digital and cloud initiatives, including migrations from legacy platforms to modern web and API-based solutions.
- Cloud migration strategy and target architecture (AWS focus).
- Design of web and mobile customer journeys and self-service portals.
- Definition of non-functional requirements and quality attributes.
- Architecture runway and roadmap creation for multi-year programmes.
Event-Driven & Data-Centric Platforms
Design and implementation of event-driven architectures and real-time data pipelines to support analytics, document processing and regulatory reporting.
- Event-driven integration using Kafka and AWS event services.
- Streaming pipelines for near real-time analytics and observability.
- Document classification, summarisation and structured data extraction.
- Regulatory and compliance data platforms across multiple regions.
AI, Graph & Insight-Driven Solutions
Practical application of AI and graph technologies to unlock insight from complex and unstructured data, with robust governance and enterprise controls.
- Agentic AI blueprints for secure, workflow-driven automation.
- Graph-based analytical applications (e.g. Neo4j) for relationship insight.
- Enterprise search solutions leveraging Solr/ELK and modern observability tooling.
- Proof-of-concepts through to production-ready designs.
Architecture Governance & Decision Support
Support for CIO, CDO and architecture functions in establishing clear, sustainable architecture practices.
- Design authorities and architecture review processes.
- Reusable patterns, standards and guardrails.
- Package evaluation and vendor selection.
- Stakeholder communication and executive-level storytelling.
Domain & technical focus
Deep experience across financial services, with particular strength in specialty insurance and large-scale banking and asset-management platforms.
Industry & domain experience
Technology & architecture capabilities
Selected accomplishments
- Introduced open-source search and analytics capabilities to a major bank, supporting high-volume customer journeys and enabling a strategic “Bank of the Future” roadmap.
- Delivered a global regulatory data platform for 40+ countries, integrating regional systems into a unified, multilingual web solution – delivered on time and to budget.
- Implemented a fully integrated product administration system ahead of schedule, enabling the business to double expected product take-up; the solution was adopted as a future-state group standard.
- Designed event-based document processing architecture for classification, summarisation and data extraction, significantly improving speed and scalability.
Track record of delivery
Red Snapper Solutions builds on hands-on experience delivering large-scale change with organisations including global insurers and tier-one banks.
Recent consulting engagements
- Designed and implemented event-based architecture for document classification, summarisation and structured data extraction.
- Contributed to agentic AI blueprints, defining how AI-driven agents operate securely within enterprise workflows.
- Architected a graph-based analytical application leveraging Neo4j for near real-time insight.
- Championed event-driven principles to enhance data reuse, observability and resilience.
- Senior architect for client lifecycle management solutions, supporting self-service and internal staff journeys.
- Delivered multiple global product solutions on AWS using API and event-driven strategies.
- Worked across UK, Switzerland and Singapore, aligning regional objectives to a global architecture model.
- Led a major digital transformation migrating legacy systems to a modern client web application and API-based architecture.
- Implemented serverless AWS platform, reducing hosting cost and improving scalability.
- Championed non-functional improvements including adoption of NoSQL and event-driven patterns.
- Designed solutions for mobile and desktop applications used by more than 13 million customers daily.
- Drove innovation via Hortonworks-based enterprise search using Solr/Kafka/Cassandra.
- Defined technology roadmaps aligned to long-term product strategy and maintainability.
Earlier roles include architecture and engineering positions with HSBC Commercial Banking, Allianz, Fidelity Investments, and Legal & General.
Let’s talk about your next change initiative
Whether you’re at the early stage of shaping a transformation programme or need help unblocking a specific delivery, an initial conversation can quickly clarify where architecture can add the most value.
Contact details
Red Snapper Solutions Ltd
66 Smithbarn
Horsham
West Sussex
RH13 6DU
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)7766 642129
Email:
Simon.A.Hulbert@gmail.com
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Open to short advisory engagements, architecture reviews and longer-term transformation programmes. Remote and hybrid engagements supported across the UK and internationally.
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