Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Nicolas is a Senior Architect with over 15 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, IT Target Operating Model, integration, modern architectures (API First, microservices, event-driven), Cloud migration, DevOps, and software development in a lean-agile environment.

He supports Management Committees and CIOs in defining IT strategies (IT roadmaps, business/IT alignment, IT rationalization and modernization, data valorization, marketplace models, Open Banking / Open Insurance strategies), in implementing target organizations (sourcing, shared service centers, governance, new skills development), and in optimizing software delivery (Digital Target Operating Model, lean-agile@scale, craft & DevOps practices).

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

Enablon
DevOps Leader
ENVIRONMENTAL
January 2019 - June 2019 (5 months)
Paris, France
Enablon offers a suite of solutions that help organizations manage their environmental and social performance, ensure regulatory compliance, control risks, and increase profitability. Enablon is leveraging digital transformation to migrate their On-Premise solution to SaaS.
My role involved:

- Auditing existing delivery processes
- Co-defining an Enablon SaaS vision
- Managing and scoping the transformation strategy
- Ensuring standardization of processes and tools
- Automating the entire build chain and ensuring quality
- Defining a Cloud migration strategy on Microsoft Azure
- Migrating the digital factory to Docker + Microsoft Azure
- Leading the DevOps community
- Managing a team of 3 people
DevOps IT Architecture API
Sephora
API Management Consultant
LUXURY GOODS
June 2018 - December 2018 (7 months)
Paris, France
Sephora transformed their IT system with the goal of exposing it externally, aiming for a service catalog orientation (APIzation).
Another goal for Sephora was to reduce the Time To Market for their mobile applications passing through a Digital Factory.
My role involved:

- Auditing the various Front-End and Back-End interactions of the IT system
- Implementing governance around APIs
- Implementing security (authentication, authorization, securing)
- Workshops for selecting the API gateway solution
- Managing the implementation on Docker + OVH
- Coordinating with IT to automate deployments with Ansible
- Designing and implementing a digital factory
- Managing a team of 2 people
API DevOps
SG CIB
Technical Leader
BANKING AND INSURANCE
June 2015 - June 2018 (2 years and 11 months)
Paris, France
- Gathering/Analyzing functional requirements
- Estimating costs and planning
- Coordinating between different teams based in Paris & Bangalore
- Decision-making technical studies (in the form of POCs)
- Analyzing data volume/performance/quality
- Coordinating client chain testing
- Weekly reporting to sponsors
Back-End Development Project Management