Fintech infrastructure Β· Europe

From quarterly releases to forty deploys a week

Infrastructure as code, progressive delivery and SLO-based automated rollback turned deployment from a scheduled event into a routine one.

9 days β†’ 22 min
Deploy lead time
-45%
Cloud spend
2.1%
Change failure rate
The engagement

What we were asked to solve

Infrastructure as code, progressive delivery and SLO-based automated rollback turned deployment from a scheduled event into a routine one.

Delivery ran from our UK hub with engineering capacity from Pakistan, under a single accountable architect. The programme followed our standard four-stage lifecycle, with working software demonstrated every fortnight rather than status reported.

Engagement profile
  • Sector: Fintech & Financial Services
  • Delivery hub: πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ United Kingdom
  • Compliance surface: PCI-DSS Level 1, SOC-2 Type II, Open Banking (PSD2)
Disciplines applied
Measured outcome

Results after delivery

9 days β†’ 22 min
Deploy lead time
-45%
Cloud spend
2.1%
Change failure rate
11 min
Mean time to recovery
How we engineer

A four-stage accelerated lifecycle

The same sequence on every engagement, whether it runs six weeks or two years. Each stage has an exit condition, so nobody discovers a disagreement in month four.

STAGE 01

Discover

We map the business outcome, constraints and existing estate before proposing anything. Discovery ends with a costed plan, not a sales deck.

1–3 weeks
STAGE 02

Architect

Rendering strategy, data model, integration contracts and the non-functional requirements are settled and documented as decision records.

2–4 weeks
STAGE 03

Execute

Fortnightly increments against a visible backlog, with working software demonstrated every cycle rather than status reported.

6–24 weeks
STAGE 04

Scale

Load testing, observability, runbooks and knowledge transfer β€” then either you take it in-house or we operate it under an SLA.

Ongoing
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