Summary
Giles Collingwood is a senior software leader with 24+ years of engineering and product delivery experience and 12 years in senior roles, currently directing a 25-strong .NET, Java and RPA team at ICE Data Services. He combines hands-on architecture and system development skills with a commercial focus, having rebuilt high-throughput financial data pipelines (handling millions of daily quotes) and driven performance, CI and service decomposition improvements at S&P Capital IQ. Comfortable across sectors from financial services to mapping and security, he has a track record of turning complex domain requirements into robust, production-ready platforms and regular releases. Known for challenging orthodox approaches, Giles blends technical leadership with stakeholder engagement to realise measurable business value. An early adopter of mapping and data-driven web solutions, he’s equally at home optimizing backend systems as shaping product strategy.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Natural Sciences, BSc Natural Sciences at Durham University
St Edwards School, Oxford