DDC Capability Teams

Source: DDC 2026 Launch Event — Slide 102, "DDC: Our Capability Teams".

Capability Teams are accountable for defining how and who tackles products/projects — driving for technical excellence and ensuring solutions and capabilities are innovative, best-in-class, and integrated. They are the "execution" side of DDC that partners with the "strategy" side (Domains).

The capability teams

Capability Focus / Strategy Lead

Data

Ensure REDs colleagues have the high-quality and FAIR data they need to be effective

Clarisse Chavanne

Architecture

Drive holistic alignment and harmonisation of infrastructure, data, and ecosystem needs

Mark McCreary

Scientific Computing

Ensure modern, robust & scalable computing capabilities to enable scientific research

Albion Baucom

Solutions

Build a modernized and interconnected computational and data ecosystem

Imran Khan

Analytics & Workflows

Build pipelines, workflows and tools to power analytics & insight generation

Pauline Fujita

AI Enablement

Embed "everyday" and "reshape" AI solutions across REDs and enable AI infrastructure

Aaron Archer Waterman

Lab Automation

Build software solutions that automate instrument data acquisition and lab processes

Andy Lash

Alex Weigel is noted alongside the capability leadership.

Where Solutions (and TSO) fit

The Solutions capability team is the branch this documentation focuses on. Within Solutions sits TSO, which delivers the DevOps, Engineering and Operations work behind Solutions' applications and platforms.

DDC
 └─ Capability Teams
      ├─ Data
      ├─ Architecture
      ├─ Scientific Computing
      ├─ Solutions          ← where TSO lives
      │    └─ TSO
      ├─ Analytics & Workflows
      ├─ AI Enablement
      └─ Lab Automation