Plamen Nachev

Senior IT professional with a 17+ years career in Fortune 500 companies across highly regulated industries Pharmaceuticals, Banking, Fintech. Specialized at driving business value by designing secure cloud solutions, implementing robust security frameworks, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver critical projects.

🔑Core Competencies:

🤖 Responsible AI, Data Protection and Privacy: Experience in security implementation, ethical and safe development and deployment of AI systems, and safeguarding sensitive data in AI and cloud environments.

📋 Security Assurance and Governance: Establishing and maintaining robust security frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with global standards (e.g., ISO , GDPR, DORA, NIS2, SOC2, PCI-DSS).

🔍 Internal Audit Excellence: Led risk-focused audits to identify vulnerabilities, drive process improvements and ensure regulatory compliance.

🛡️Security Posture Management: Reduced attack surface by 30% through Azure zero-trust implementations and AI-powered security analytics, established infrastructure hardening baselines (CIS, NIST CSF, ZTA), integrated DevSecOps pipelines with automated security tests to enhance code quality.

🎯Business Analysis & Strategy: Translating business needs into actionable IT strategies aligned with organizational objectives, IT roadmaps and risk appetite.

🎓My qualifications are underpinned by a suite of certifications:

• Cloud & AI: AZ-900, AI-900, MS-900

• Security: Microsoft SC-900, IIBA-CCA, AVG Anti-Virus SMB

• Internal Audit: General Audit Training (KBC Group NV)

• Project/Service Management: ITIL 4 Foundation, CitiDirect Electronic Banking & BE Mobile

💡 Passion: Leveraging AI, cloud-native security, and threat intelligence to stay ahead of emerging threats and help organizations build resilient, future-proof security postures.

🌍 EU Blue Card holder - no sponsorship needed and immediate work eligibility across EU/EEA/EFTA

🚀 Open to relocation - Luxembourg