Enterprise & Solution Architecture
Regardless of the scale or complexity of your solution landscape, we have the experienced consultants who can meet your challenges within infrastructure, digital or data.
Watchmen Consulting — Enterprise, Data & Security Architecture Consultancy
Architecture | Technology Consultancy | Service Design | Data & AI | QA/QE | Infrastructure | Cyber Security | Resilience & Compliance | Delivery | Start-up & Scale-Up Advisory | Project, Architecture & Operational Assessments | M&AArchitecture | Technology Consultancy | Service Design | Data & AI | QA/QE | Infrastructure | Cyber Security | Resilience & Compliance | Delivery | Start-up & Scale-Up Advisory | Project, Architecture & Operational Assessments | M&A
Who we are
About Us
Our consultants specialise in combining decades of experience across Public Sector, Energy, Financial Services and Aerospace industries to tackle the combined challenges of digitisation, data and cyber security.
Services
Expertise. Innovation. Experience.
What we do
Security Architecture & Assurance
From design to assurance to governance, we can bring our experience and knowledge to define or use your existing security frameworks to meet the cyber threats of a digitised and integrated world.
Data Architecture, Analysis & Modelling
The data revolution continues to gather pace as no longer just a method of analysis after the event, but now driving every decision and action we take in an increasingly digitised world as we move closer to the vision of every aspect of the built world having a digital twin. Our data experts can bring their expertise to help you not be swamped within this increasingly complex data landscape.
Digital Twins Advisory
A digital twin is only as valuable as the decisions it improves. We help you scope the right level of fidelity, connect the operational and engineering data that feeds it, and put the governance, standards and security around it so the twin stays trustworthy as your estate evolves.
Start-Up to Scale-Up
The architecture that got you to product-market fit rarely survives rapid growth. We work alongside founders and early engineering teams to harden platforms, remove scaling bottlenecks, and introduce just enough process, security and assurance to satisfy enterprise customers and investors without slowing delivery.
Project, Architecture & Operational Assessments
An independent, evidence-based view of where you really are. We assess delivery health, architectural fitness and operational resilience against your objectives, then hand you a prioritised, costed set of recommendations your teams can act on immediately.
Tiger Teams
When a programme stalls, an incident escalates or a critical decision cannot wait, we assemble a small, senior team to parachute in, diagnose the real problem quickly and drive it to resolution — then transfer the knowledge back to your people before we leave.
The team
Our People
Paul Fjelrad
Enterprise & Solution Architect
Managing Director & Chief Architect, Paul has 30 years of experience across industries, technologies and methodologies. Whether it is architecture, data, infrastructure or cyber security, he has the knowledge, skills and experience to help you meet your next challenge.
Sara Nash
Operations Manager and Assistant to the Director
Operations Manager and Assistant to the Director. Sara ensures all our consultants are organised and free to focus on solving whatever challenge the client is facing.
Michael Jones
Principal Quality Assurance Consultant
Michael brings deep quality assurance and test engineering leadership across regulated, high-stakes environments. He builds QA strategies, automation and governance that catch risk early — so complex programmes ship on time with the evidence to prove they work.
Rob Lunt
Engagement & Delivery Director
Rob has spent his career turning ambitious technology programmes into delivered outcomes. He shapes engagements, sets up delivery for success and keeps teams, suppliers and stakeholders pulling in the same direction when the pressure is on.
How we think
Our Expertise
Solving the right problems, the right way
Some challenges are easy to recognise but difficult to understand. There may be smoke, but what is causing the fire. Perhaps what you thought was the fault of your software delivery function, is in fact a business decision and operating model problem being surfaced through your technology.
You can see the symptoms: repeated outages, rising risk, slower delivery, failed change, increasing cost or teams working harder without making progress. But the underlying problem remains unresolved, and each attempted fix treats another symptom rather than addressing the cause.
Watchmen brings together a trusted network of expert associates to help organisations understand what is really happening and decide what to do about it.
This is not recruitment or resourcing dressed up as consultancy. We do not start with a person to sell or a role to fill. We start with the problem, then bring together the experience and specialist expertise needed to solve it.
Find Out More
Contact
Contact Us
Have a particular challenge you're trying to deal with? Contact us today and see what we can do for you.
Email Us- 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX
- info@watchmenconsulting.co.uk
- +44 (0) 203 488 2738
Insights
From Insights
Jun 4, 2026
Aiming for Architecture Coherence
The most common flaw I see during one of our Architectural Assessments is dissonance, when what is planned and strategised in the boardroom doesn't reflect the reality of your technology foundations. Architectural Coherence is "what the boardroom plans, the repo delivers". So ask yourself, how honest are you being with yourself about the state of your architectural and technology foundations? Behind the shine and the glamour of your product's public face, what does it look like in the engine room?
Jun 2, 2026
Why does Data Enable Everything?
How does data enable everything, and yet many organisations actually don't have a data problem, they have a decision problem? If you don't have a foundation for effective decision-making, then maybe we should have a conversation about Architectural Coherence.
Jun 2, 2026
The Scale-Up Conundrum
This is the Scale-Up Conundrum. Architectural Dissonance is where the understanding in the Boardroom no longer connects with Technology under strain. If any of this is familiar to you, drop me a message and we'll have a chat.