Independent consultancy · Strategy to delivery · London
Infrastructure, cloud & the modern workplace, architected at Fortune 500 scale.
From the datacentre to whatever comes next: cloud‑native, hybrid, or deliberately both. One principal, accountable for the whole estate. Independent architecture and delivery for global regulated organisations.
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One architect. The whole estate.
RF Premium IT Services is the consultancy of Rui Frade, Principal Architect. Fifteen‑plus years across infrastructure, cloud, modern workplace and cybersecurity; transformations measured in tens of thousands of users, hundreds of sites and five continents.
The distinguishing capability is the bridge: equally fluent with engineers and executives, translating between the senior leadership team and delivery teams so that technology enables the business goal rather than becoming one.
The record runs through pharmaceutical and life sciences, Fortune 500 investment banking, global aviation, securities finance and higher education. Client names withheld by agreement; sectors and scale speak for themselves.
Breadth is the capability.
Strategy, Governance & Change
Strategy & Roadmaps
Multi‑year roadmaps and operating models that turn technology spend into business outcomes.
Enterprise Architecture·Roadmaps·Operating Models
Governance & Design Authority
Standards, principles and decision frameworks that keep global delivery coherent.
Design Authority·ARB·Architecture Standards
M&A & Divestiture
Integration and separation without drama: Day‑1 ready, Day‑100 stable.
Acquisition Integration·Divestiture·Tenant Strategy
Cost & Rationalisation
Complexity out, cost down, without trading away resilience.
Rationalisation·Licensing·Cost Optimisation
Infrastructure & Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform
The platform the business runs on, designed for resilience, cost and change.
Azure·IaaS / PaaS / SaaS·CAF·Hybrid
Virtual Desktop & EUC
Desktops that follow the work anywhere, engineered for the most demanding users.
AVD·Citrix·VMware
Datacentre Heritage
The legacy estate run, extended or retired: whichever serves the business.
AD·Exchange·Windows Server·SCCM·Cisco
Network & Secure Access
Secure connectivity for every user, site and system, wherever the work happens.
Palo Alto·Prisma·ZTNA·VPN·NAC
OT & Frontline
Plant floor, kiosk and frontline estates, managed as first‑class citizens.
OT·Kiosk·Frontline Worker
Automation & Engineering
If it happens twice it becomes a runbook; if it happens daily it becomes code. Friction found, process fixed.
PowerShell·Graph·Azure Automation·Logic Apps·Runbooks
Modern Workplace & Security
Endpoint & Device
Every device trusted, compliant and invisible to the person using it.
Intune·Workspace ONE·Jamf·Zero‑Touch
Identity & Zero Trust
Identity as the perimeter: effortless for people, unforgiving to attackers.
Entra·Okta·Conditional Access
Security & Compliance
Security that stands up to boards, auditors and adversaries alike.
Defender·Sentinel·Purview·Zero Trust
Microsoft 365 Platform
The tenant as a product: the full Microsoft 365 estate architected, governed and worth its licence.
Exchange·SharePoint·Teams·OneDrive·Licensing
AI, Copilot & Agents
Direction for the agent era: strategy and guardrails that take teams from pilot to production.
M365 Copilot·Copilot Studio·Agents·Azure AI
Adoption & Experience
Rollouts people embrace: adoption, change and experience measured, not assumed.
Viva·Adoption·Change
Built to pass the audit, not just the demo.
ISO/IEC 27001·NIST CSF·CIS Benchmarks·GxP·DORA·Zero Trust
Every stage, run before.
Foundations
Directory, messaging, server, virtualisation, network. Where transformations start, and where the risk lives.
Transformation
Cloud migration, tenant architecture, VDI re‑platforming, acquisition integration and divestiture separation.
Target State
Cloud‑native, hybrid, or both by design: operations that fit the business, security built in, AI on a governed estate.
Target‑state architecture, implementation leadership and advisory to the C‑suite, including CIOs, CTOs and CISOs, and the wider leadership teams, documented to design authority standard.
One workstream or a whole estate. Fluent in the language of the boardroom and the build, so strategy and delivery stay one conversation.
Not reserved for the Fortune 500 either: startups and scale‑ups get the same discipline, right‑sized, so technology accelerates growth instead of becoming the bottleneck.
- Pharmaceutical & life sciences
- Investment banking & capital markets
- Securities finance & trading platforms
- Aviation & global operations
- Higher education & research
- Startups & scale‑ups
The estate is complex. The engagement doesn't have to be.
Architecture, implementation and advisory enquiries reach the principal directly. No account managers, no bench.
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