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 Saddick Johaadien is the Chief Architect at the.UK national
Department for Education. He is working in the Governance
Group, focusing mainly on setting the strategic direction
for the development and implementation of ICT architecture.
This should meet the Department’s business objectives,
be internally consistent and stay in step with central government
standards and architectures. He is an active member of both
the Cabinet Office Working Groups and wider private sector
architecture, governance and innovation special interest
groups.
After several years as Commonwealth Secretariat IT adviser
to the Government of Mauritius, in the post-apartheid era
he was the IT Director for the Provincial Administration
of the Western Cape. Here he led and managed the province-wide
infrastructure upgrade together with the amalgamation of
the separate largely racially based IT ‘fiefdoms’,
enabling consolidation and rationalisation of the government’s
IT effort.
He has a background which includes lecturing in statistics,
computing and economics; and has some 15 years experience
in system analysis and design, and computer programming.
He was recently awarded a British Computer Society (BCS)
IT Professional award for the e-GIF accreditation authority
public sector.
Born in Cape Town, Saddick completed his education in the
U.K where he obtained a BA (Hons.) and MA(econ) from the
University of East Anglia
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