About Hicham
Experienced Cloud Governance Lead Architect and Solutions Architect with 15+ years in IT, specializing in cloud architecture, data engineering, and big data solutions.
Expertise in:
• Cloud Governance & Architecture (GCP, Azure, AWS)
• Data Engineering & Analytics platforms
• Team Leadership & Technical Architecture
• DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Big Data technologies (Spark, Airflow, BigQuery, Snowflake)
• AI/ML integration (RAG, LangChain, CrewAI, VertexAI)
Proven track record helping multinational organizations (ADEO, Decathlon, Orange, Amadeus) implement state-of-the-art cloud governance frameworks, data platforms, and AI-powered solutions. Led teams up to 15 people, architected enterprise-scale data ingestion platforms, and enabled self-service data capabilities for global organizations.
Fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
Arabic
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- ADEO (#1 DIY retailer in Europe)Cloud Governance Lead Architect - ConsultantJanuary 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)• ● Lead Architect at the Global Cloud Governance team, helping a multinational organization implement state-of-the-art cloud governance, on GCP and Azure.• ● Designed a Complete Framework for Cloud Governance Inspired from Industry Standards..• ● Designed and Implemented ELT pipelines for Finops (Billing, Consumption ML Forecast)• ● Designed and Led Cloud Governance Organization Policies Global Deployments. (Compute, Datawarehousing, Object Storage, AI, IAM …)• ● Led an initiative with security teams to improve observability and resiliency on Identity and Access Management. Leading to a complete ownership of IAM globally.• ● Worked with Data Engineering teams on uncontrolled BigQuery usage, leading to a Quota based Governance system.• ● Suggested, Designed and Implemented a system to remove the need for storing applicative service account credentials, reducing drastically the risks of compromised credentials and security breaches.
- Opensource & Community : GroupBeesDevRel DATA & AIJanuary 2024 - January 2025 (1 year)• ● Latest AI Research Paper Reviews on Linkedin.• ● Developed and executed strategies to engage with developers, engineers, and other tech practitioners.• ● Created high-quality content for the GroupBees' community.• ● Built and nurtured online communities.• ● Participated in events, meetups, and webinars to bring together developers and foster collaboration
- ADEO (#1 DIY retailer in Europe)Solutions Architect - ConsultantJanuary 2022 - January 2024 (2 years)• ● Designed and implemented an FAQ recommendation engine => Reduced IT support and Enhanced User experience.• ● Architected an Agentic AI System helping the companies' employees navigate through the internal IT knowledge base.• ● Implemented an AI RAG based API as Backend for the Cloud Services Site Chatbot Assistant. Reducing support requests by 30%.• ● Designed and Setup of an entire Data Management System for Adeo's Global Cloud Landing Zone Management System (GCP, Azure). Boosting operations, development, performance by more than 100%.• ● Designed and Led the implementation of Live Analytics Capabilities for the Cloud Landing Zones Enterprise Architecture Building Block. Making a big step into the corporate data mesh roadmap.• ● Vendor-unlocking by designing, planning and leading Software rework using Hexagonal and Clean architectures.
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Education
- Engineer's degree (M2), Computer Engineering applied to avionicsEcole nationale supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique2009Engineer's degree (M2), Computer Engineering applied to avionics
- Master's degree, Computer Software EngineeringEcole nationale supérieure d'Electronique, Informatique et de Radiocommunications de Bordeaux2006Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering
Certifications
- Professional Cloud ArchitectGoogle Cloud2023
- Data Science OrientationIBM2021