Denise joined HMRC in April 2017 and is responsible for leading the core Engineering function within HMRC’s IT department, as well as the Cloud, Data Platform and messaging teams. Denise and her team are delivering an agenda of stabilisation and improved resilience to the department’s current IT estate, as well as migrating its services from their current data centres to Cloud (both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure). An on-premises facility, Crown Hosting, has also been established under the programme’s governance. In addition, Denise has delivered a new Cloud Centre of Excellence within HMRC to ensure that ways of working are adapted to deliver successfully and efficiently in the Cloud. Denise has also taken on responsibility for developing the plan and programme to remediate wider Technical Debt across HMRC’s estate. Prior to HMRC Denise worked at NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) as Director of Transformation. Denise’s IT career started at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) where she was responsible for delivering a number of IT changes across PwC’s global IT estate