Lead Architect on implementation
Design authority and target-state architecture on implementation programmes, from platform selection through build.
Fractional architect, 2–3 days a week, or embedded for a programme phase
Tamba Sheku Lamin
Technology Architect & Educator
I build architecture teams that run without me.
Agentic AI & AI-Led SDLC · Composable/MACH · DXP/CMS · MarTech
Founder, TpISENT, Inc. (New York)
Three ways to engage
Presales and solution engineering
Architecture for the pursuit: solution shaping, estimation, orals and proof-of-concept.
Pursuit support, scoped to the bid
Post-sales architecture and engineering
Rescue, performance and security hardening, migration, and handover to the client's own team.
Fixed-scope architecture assessment, or a defined recovery phase
Team enablement. Hands-on 48-contact-hour intensives and standing architecture guilds for architects, software engineers, developers, IT professionals, IT managers and IT executives. Participants build and deploy a capstone, not just attend.
Platforms I work in
- Contentful
- Contentstack
- Optimizely
- Drupal
- WordPress VIP
- Strapi
- Uniform
- Acquia
- Pantheon
Composable and MACH architecture; DXP, CMS and MarTech estate design and consolidation; agentic AI and AI-led delivery enablement.
On record
- Consultant CV in standard donor structure, with a downloadable PDF.
- Past performance: engagements with client, dates, role, value band and outcome, referees on request.
- Twenty-five years across US federal government, life sciences, consumer technology, education and international development. Formerly Senior Technology Architect, Accenture Song.
Contracting corp-to-corp through TpISENT, Inc. (New York). US, UK and EU clients; based GMT, aligned to UK and EU working hours. W-9 and certificate of insurance on request.
Questions people ask
Who is Tamba Sheku Lamin?
Tamba Sheku Lamin is a technology architect and educator with 25 years of experience across US federal government, life sciences, consumer technology, education and international development. He was Global Practice Lead for the digital experience platform portfolio and North America Practice Lead at Accenture Song, and now works independently as a Lead Architect through TpISENT, Inc. in New York. He is a dual national of the United States and Sierra Leone.
Is Tamba Lamin available as a Lead Architect?
Yes. Tamba Lamin takes Lead Architect engagements on implementation programmes as a fractional architect at two to three days a week or embedded for a programme phase, and also does fixed-scope architecture assessments, presales solution engineering and post-sales rescue and hardening. He contracts corp-to-corp through TpISENT, Inc. (New York) with US, UK and EU clients and is based on GMT.
Does Tamba Lamin offer executive training on agentic AI?
Yes. TpISENT Talent Development runs executive cohorts on agentic AI, responsible AI and AI-led software delivery for IT managers and executives: shorter sessions across the same build-first curriculum as the 48-contact-hour intensive, focused on what leaders must be able to see, ask and decide. Cohorts are delivered online worldwide; in person in Sierra Leone and in New York; in Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and across West Africa by arrangement; and elsewhere on request.
Has Tamba Lamin worked with donors, governments and universities in West Africa?
Yes. He contributed to the Sierra Leone Learning Passport with the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation, UNICEF and the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, reaching 50,000+ students; architected SLOEDP, Sierra Leone's first open election data platform, adopted by the Independent Media Commission and hosted at Njala University; delivered election-violence monitoring platforms for IFES in the Maldives and Senegal; and led digital transformation for Njala University, the University of Sierra Leone and the Government of Sierra Leone's Open Government Initiative.