Niamh Savill, Senior Solutions Architect at Halo: Breaking Into Tech Without a Tech Degree
My Duvet Flip by Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
4.2 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Episode Guest
Niamh Savill is a Senior Solutions Architect at Halo CRM, where she works across consultancy, product development, and customer solutions. With a background in languages, she brings a people-first, curious approach to solving complex technical challenges.
Episode Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:33 Meet Niamh and Why She Said Yes to My Duvet Flip
1:31 Niamh’s First Jobs and Early Lessons About Work
2:42 What Early Roles Teach You About Communication
3:10 How to Communicate Better at Work
3:52 Finding Halo Through Indeed
4:33 From Language Degree to a Tech Career
5:01 Niamh’s Journey at Halo CRM
6:49 Building Confidence and Putting Your Hand Up
7:47 Learning on the Job and Asking Questions
8:02 Niamh’s Best Day at Halo and Travelling for Work
8:58 What Halo Taught Niamh About Being Yourself
9:42 How Niamh Describes Halo’s Culture
10:34 Being a Woman in Tech
11:22 Advice to Young Women Applying for Tech Roles
12:08 Do You Need a Tech Background to Work in Tech?
12:58 A Day in the Life of a Senior Solutions Architect
13:51 Why Relationships Matter at Work
14:31 Dealing With Imposter Syndrome
15:36 Finding Best Friends at Work
16:27 Paul’s Leadership Style at Halo
17:44 Can Ambition and Drive Be Trained?
18:53 Niamh’s Advice to Anyone Applying to Halo
19:12 What Gets Niamh Out of Bed in the Morning
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Check out the latest from Halo:
https://halograduates.com and https://www.instagram.com/halonextgen/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Neve. I'm a senior solutions architect for Halo CRM. We employ 200 people across the world and this is my dead-day flip. Do you need to be a certain type of individual or can that be trained? I think you have to be challenged-driven. I don't think you could walk into Halo to the coast. Tell me through your journey. He approached me saying, do you want to be on the team? And I was like, hell yes, I want to be on the team. I'm sure if I see young women who may come across Halo or want to be on the team and I was like hell yes I want to be on the team |
| 0:20.8 | what's your fice young women who may come across Halo or want to get into the technology |
| 0:25.2 | industry if you want to do it or you'll regret not doing it what's your duvet flip what |
| 0:29.8 | gets you out a bit in the morning to flip the dover I think hi my name is Neve I'm a senior solutions architect for Halo CRM. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm looking forward to speaking with Jack. I'm a little bit apprehensive but excited. |
| 0:44.3 | I think it's generally quite good to represent women in the tech industry when speaking publicly. |
| 0:51.3 | So that's what I'm looking forward to talking about in the show. |
| 0:53.3 | The reason I said yes is because I think it's a really good opportunity. I haven't met Jack |
| 0:57.8 | before, but I'm expecting quite a fun conversation. My colleagues have said it's been. I hope that |
| 1:03.4 | people take away from the episode that if they really want something, just to be brave and shoot for it. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi Jack, let's go. |
| 1:11.7 | So welcome to my do-day, Philip. How are we? I'm really good. Thank you. How about you? Yeah, not bad. You're not bad. I love it when it's summer because it puts you... Absolutely. It puts everyone in a better mood, doesn't it? Oh yeah. It's just the vitamin D is just coming down. All happy five. Absolutely. And we're going to have happy five today because I'm going to learn all about your career. |
| 1:28.0 | I want to start all about your career. |
| 1:29.8 | I want to start with your first job. |
| 1:36.7 | Like, tell me a little bit about how did the world of work happen for you when you first got into your first job. And what did that teach you about life? |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.6 | My first job was working for my dad. |
| 1:44.3 | So he worked at an agricultural firm, but he had a side hustle of selling toys on eBay. |
| 1:50.6 | So I was packaging all of the toys because I was basically just desperate for pocket money |
| 1:55.6 | and also looking at the toys that he was selling. |
| 1:58.4 | So that was my first job. |
| 2:01.4 | I might have been 12. I might have been 12. |
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