UK Cabinet Office – Government Commercial Function (GCF)

Head of Digital and Systems Team | April 2024–Present

• Provides digital leadership for the Commercial & Contract Management Capability Programme (CCMCP), aligning digital products, tools, technologies and services with programme objectives.
• Leads strategy and future vision for the Government Commercial College Learning Management System, supporting commercial and contract management, grants, Transforming Public Procurement, and accreditation centres.
• Established a product working group and developed product backlogs, roadmaps, and short-, medium-, and long-term plans.
• Leads consolidation and simplification of learner management systems, including plans to move grants learning to the Government Commercial College, with anticipated savings of £50,000 per year.
• Led the business case, approvals and re-procurement of a £1 million digital platform for a 3+1-year term through G-Cloud-13.
• Leads integrations with Government Skills Campus and MyCO/Matrix/Neo programmes, and collaboration with CO-Digital for Falcon (Microsoft Office 365).
• Scaled the GCC-LMS user base to more than 103,000 users, with 250% year-on-year growth, and expanded the Digital and Systems Team from 3 to 7 members.
• Speaks at conferences including AI Summit, Think Digital Government, Central Government Partnership Network, Public Sector Data Live, APIDays and Whitehall Media.

UK Cabinet Office – CDDO

Modernising Technology Programme Manager | May 2022–March 2024

• Led work on generative AI and large language models, emerging technology, innovation and sustainability, building relationships with international governments and cross-government departments.
• Led development of the government’s Emerging Tech and Innovation Strategy and established a related Community of Practice.
• Worked with departments on an Emerging Tech Register and a Future Forward Look for Technologies quadrant assessing impact, maturity and potential government applications.
• Coordinated with the CTO Council to promote the exchange and reuse of technical knowledge and best practices in AI/ML, automation, legacy systems, cybersecurity, cloud and sustainability.
• Improved operational workflows and processes, reducing duplication and increasing team capacity from 5 to 23 people.

UK Cabinet Office – Government Digital Service (GDS)

Consulting Technical Architect; Head of Open Standards | February 2018–May 2022

• Advised on digital transformation and technical architecture for UK government services, working with senior leaders across departments and public bodies.
• Reviewed and supported spend control and technical architecture decisions to improve budget and delivery efficiency while maintaining compliance with government digital principles.
• Provided assurance for secure online services during COVID-19 for critical services across NHS, DHSC, DfT, MoJ, HMCTS, HMRC and other departments.
• Delivered international consultancy to government teams in Canada, Switzerland, Thailand, Jordan, Colombia, Uzbekistan and Rwanda on service portals, e-procurement, enterprise architecture, cloud, security, privacy and integration.
• Conducted IPA reviews and GDS assessments for Parliament and government departments; chaired recruitment panels for G7 and HEO roles and participated in SCS interviews.
• Led workshops and training on AI/ML, RPA, open standards, diversity, inclusion and race; chaired the Social Mobility Network.
• Represented HM Government on advisory and standards bodies including W3C, Unicode, The Document Foundation, Open API Initiative, Linux Foundation and other UK and European groups.
• As Head of Open Standards (January–December 2019), promoted open standards and open-source technologies, led board meetings resulting in approval of three standards, and contributed to guidance on interoperability and data formats.

Earlier Public- and Private-Sector Experience

Experience includes work with the World Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Accenture, HSBC, Capco, 3i Infotech, Greenstone Carbon Management, Jandu Technologies Ltd, C-DAC, Ministry of Defence, Credit Suisse, Newcastle Building Society, Barclays and Shell Oil.

• At JPMorgan Chase, led a shared-services data, digital and architecture transformation programme, introducing agile delivery and improving the transaction speed of critical payment systems by a factor of seven.
• At HSBC, developed and secured approval for a US$6.2 million workforce management and waste-elimination programme using optimised architecture, workflows, RPA and AI/ML; achieved targeted savings of US$9.5 million and reduced 800 FTEs in the first year.
• At Greenstone Carbon Management, led strategy and enterprise architecture for a SaaS environmental and sustainability carbon-management solution, with features receiving a "Leader” rating in the Verdantix Matrix.
• Led the design and delivery of a £500,000 SaaS anti-money-laundering solution for Newcastle Building Society, delivered to plan with offshore teams.
• Led a £1 million organisational change programme and developed a new target operating model and processes for an India development centre serving global banks.
• Led architecture and delivery for a US$1 million World Bank-funded data warehouse and business-intelligence programme, from tender documentation through migration and implementation.
• As chief architect, led development of a Punjabi-language word processor with spell-checking and a roadmap for ICR/OCR and translation; the work was nominated for a national award.
• Led pre-sales, solution architecture, programme management and assurance for CMMI Level V and ISO 27001/9001 compliance; also led Salesforce customisation and training, and developed an insurance Centre of Excellence with Oracle.
• Prepared an approved detailed project report and business case for a £3 million IT Centre at Tezpur University, including infrastructure, resourcing, ROI and total-cost-of-ownership planning.
• Served as visiting faculty and board-of-studies member at universities and colleges, contributing to curriculum design, examination schemes and course materials for postgraduate, undergraduate and certificate programmes.

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), generative AI and large language models
• Robotic process automation (RPA), Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing and emerging technologies
• Digital transformation, enterprise architecture, application rationalisation and open standards/open-source technologies
• Software modelling, model-driven architecture, TOGAF, interoperability and agile methodologies
• Technology strategy, product/programme/portfolio management, roadmaps, governance and stakeholder management
• Process improvement, organisational change, sustainability, cybersecurity, cloud and service integration
• Curriculum design, scheme of examination, teaching, training, coaching and mentoring

• Editor for the book Model Driven Business Process Engineering, published by Bentham Science (2014), and for the C-DAC newsletter.
• Two software IPR copyrights.
• Published blogs and contributions relating to AI/ML, diversity and inclusion, and "Let Us Talk About Race”.
• Contributed to government publications and guidance on open standards, interoperability, data formats, and the use of open data-format documents.

• Nominated for the Shri Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in Information Technology (2003), Government of India.
• Listed in Who’s Who in the World in 2020, 2018, 2016, 2015 and 2014, and in Who’s Who in Asia (first and second editions), by Marquis Who’s Who, USA.
• Nominated for the Shri Dewang Mehta National Award for Innovation in Information Technology; runner-up for OpenUK’s AI Award 2025; named among Computing.co.uk’s Top 100 IT Leaders for 2025; judge for The National AI Awards 2025.

Dr. Ravinder Singh is a digital and technology leader with international experience across public- and private-sector organisations, including the UK Cabinet Office, World Bank, Big Four consulting, Government of India, defence, banking and financial services, software, research and development, telecommunications, and oil and utilities. His work spans digital transformation, technology strategy, enterprise architecture, product and programme leadership, emerging technologies, governance, and organisational change. He has led complex programmes with budgets of up to US$95 million.

Professional recognition includes being named among Computing.co.uk’s Top 100 IT Leaders for 2025, serving as a judge for The National AI Awards 2025, being nominated for the Shri Dewang Mehta National Award for Innovation in Information Technology, and being runner-up for OpenUK’s AI Award 2025.

• Charity work for the 2004 tsunami response, Diabetic Society and British Red Cross; organised walks and sports tournaments and helped collect and distribute approximately £30,000 to charities.
• Member of SACRE (Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education), Maidenhead, since 2015.
• Governor of Boyne Hill Church of England School, Maidenhead (2007–2013).
• Authorised person for conducting civil marriages under UK law at GNSSS, Maidenhead, and issuing UK civil marriage certificates.