Systems Design
Paul Reynolds Architect

Cyber Consultancy, Systems Design, Architecture and Leadership

At Black Chili, we pride ourselves on being straightforward. We deliver the best technology consultancy services and offer the flexibility to provide exactly what you need from a trusted technology partner. Whether we augment your team or fly solo, the solutions we deliver are built by leading technologists – we are multi award-winning and vendor certified technologists with hundreds of thousands of satisfied users. 

Solution Architect


One of our days is worth Five of theirs™

We delight in putting the ‘competition’ to shame. While they get weighed down with the trappings of big business, spiralling overheads and ever-increasing costs, we stay nimble – able to react instantly to the shifting demands of your business, delivering the true value of quality solutions in optimal time. Genuinely lowering your TCO.

When you join us, you’ll see what an effective and professional team led by experienced technologists REALLY looks like!

No more exchanging emails, endlessly re-drafting designs and generally making a pay by the hour meal of it. We’ll get the job done efficiently, and first time.

Vendor Certified Architects


Professional Services

Our Professional Services portfolio offers a comprehensive delivery model, from Requirements and Solution Design, through Programme & Project Delivery to Service Delivery. 

Included in our consultancy services are Management, Governance, Communications and PMO capabilities that in the engagement models of our competitors would result in more dedicated people at a much higher cost. 

Check out our recent work here!

Security Architect
Technical Leadership

One Team

There is no ‘Them and Us’ with Black Chili. We work as part of your team, using our considerable experience to help steer technology programmes toward successful conclusions. We see being a critical friend as important – supportive but challenging. We are engaged by our customers to provide clarity, identify and overcome key issues, create a plan and build momentum. 

Black Chili are all about our customers. Whatever you need, we’ll work tirelessly to prove our promise of being truly world-class. 

Billing amounts to time and materials – no recruitment costs, on-boarding, training or other hassles. You can take advantage of substantial savings with a professional services contract!

At Black Chili we’re all about value – we offer fantastic service, fair prices, and as a small company we treat every customer like family. So if you’re looking for systems design, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, security architecture, technical architecture, cloud architecture, or any kind of technical leadership or engineering expertise,, contact us

Recent Projects

Enterprise Architect and Information Security specialist leading the creation of ISMS documentation, before completing an internal audit in readiness for ISO 27001 certification.

Lead architect for government organisation shared services, currently undertaking Europe’s largest transformation of applications and services into Hyperscale Cloud. A £320m Critical National Infrastructure programme.

Responsible for:

– Developing and reviewing solutions to ensure adherence to strategy and compliance to rigorous security requirements
– Providing architectural direction to projects, programmes and 3rd party suppliers
– Working with CTO to define  Digital Strategy
– Sitting on the Architecture Review Board, and other governance forums
– Finding viable solutions where programme direction is uncertain

Review of Azure and AWS resource usage, followed by:

– Best Practice recommendations
– Resource efficiencies driving significant cost savings
– Security review
– Blueprints to guide future deployments

Microservices architecture for a modular web application – AWS, Lamba & SQL

– Sr Principal Engineer for the Forceppint Global Governments Professional Services Group.
– Lead Architect overseeing a hybrid cloud security implementation for a large Government organisation.

Taking a traditional on-prem two-tier application and translating it into a load balanced and highly available cloud service. AWS VPC and IAM configuration, EC2 builds and RDS configuration. Multi AZ.

Review of a leading Health App, with recommendations to improve security, resilience, overall performance and function, and make it procurement ready

– System virtualisation
– High-availability service design
– Digital Retinopathy scanning service design and build
– Mobile working enablement
– Exchange email upgrade

Working within the Senior Leadership Team to review strategy, security and compliance, recommend enhancements and initiatives to improve overall posture in readiness for ISO27001.

Planning the destination platform and migration strategy for 350TB of unstructured departmental and personal data to move from on-prem SAN to SharePoint and OneDrive.

PEN tests, risk analysis and remediation for a software company

– Proprietary encryption of 7000 laptops to NCSC standards
– Device control/peripheral encryption for 85,000 client devices
– Protective marking of email and documents
– SRAS expansion strategy
– VPN split tunnel
– GPO control of client devices

NetBackup design & implementation nationwide

Thousands of servers and systems relocated from datacentres nationwide, to a single facility. Full audit, migration design, logistics and recommisioning.

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