Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralised architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation. Through stories from our own journey, we’ll share how decentralising decisions improved alignment across teams, empowered faster decision-making, and fostered a culture of ownership. We'll share lessons learned implementing lightweight governance, defining clear architectural guardrails through architectural principles, and the tools to support decentralised decisions.


Speaker

Peter Hunter

Head of R&D, Tech Architect @OpenGI

A technology leader with 25+ years of experience in the Insurance industry, Peter led the transformation of a legacy solution into a modern cloud-based SaaS platform, significantly improving scalability and performance and allowing teams to unlock the benefits of cloud. He transformed the role of architecture within OpenGI, empowering engineering teams to make key architectural decisions. He is currently driving innovation as Head of R&D, fostering a culture of experimentation across the organisation.

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Elena Stojmilova

Technical Lead @Open GI

Technical Lead at Open GI with over 12 years of experience in software development, specializing in modernizing legacy systems and building cloud-native architectures, with a focus on creating scalable, future-ready solutions. Over the past six years, she has led a team with the autonomy to design architectures, select technologies, and implement effective approaches to achieve their goals.

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