
Guy-Albert Boucand
Senior Cloud & Data Architect | AWS, GenAI
Salary / Daily rate
92220 Bagneux, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Cloud & Data Architect with 20+ years building enterprise-grade platforms across banking, insurance, and e-commerce. Expert in AWS serverless architectures, GenAI/LLM integration, and private AI deployments with proven success at Société Générale and AXA. Specialized in secure, scalable data pipelines, RAG systems, and agentic architectures—delivering production-ready solutions that balance innovation with compliance.
Work experience
Trainer / Lecturer – Cybersecurity & Data
Freelance
Sep 2024 - Present
2 years 2 months
Fort-de-France, Martinique
– Teaching Cybersecurity at CNAM, covering security fundamentals, risk management, cybersecurity principles and infrastructure security – Teaching Information Systems Management (SIG) for DCG (Diplôme de Comptabilité et de Gestion – Bachelor / Licence level) students, focusing on information systems, data flows, governance and IS architecture – Teaching Data Management for BTS SIO, covering data modeling, data lifecycle, data security and operational usage – Designing course materials, practical exercises and real-world case studies aligned with industry practices – Bridging academic content with real-world production experience in cloud, infrastructure, data platforms and security
Senior Cloud & Data Architect
Startup
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
– Designed and implemented a serverless, multi-tenant AWS architecture for a scalable web and e-commerce platform – Led the integration of GenAI and LLMs into production systems, including the deployment of private / self-hosted LLMs (on-premise) to address security, data privacy and cost control requirements – Implemented Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize and secure context exchanges between applications, data sources and LLMs – Designed and built Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, tightly integrated with enterprise data platforms – Designed a processing pipeline based on an agentic architecture, orchestrating multiple AI agents for analysis, decision-making and task execution – Architected and implemented data pipelines supporting both application workloads and AI/GenAI use cases – Defined cloud and infrastructure standards covering security, scalability, performance, reliability and ITIL-aligned operations – Industrialized deployments using Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation – Provided hands-on technical leadership, contributing directly to development and platform implementation
Senior Data Platform Architect / DevOps / SRE
Société Générale
Oct 2019 - Dec 2023
4 years 3 months
Région de Paris, France
– Contributed to the architecture and evolution of a next-generation enterprise Data Platform – Designed and implemented data ingestion, transformation and exposure pipelines – Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Infrastructure as Code – Implemented observability and reliability practices aligned with SRE principles – Acted as a key contributor for data and workload migrations from on-premise to cloud (AWS / Azure) – Provided Level 3 expert support for production platforms
Senior Big Data Architect - AXA Services
AXA
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
3 years 2 months
Région de Paris, France
– Member of AXA Group Big Data Center of Excellence (Europe, Asia, USA) – Designed, built and operated large-scale Big Data platforms serving multiple business units – Architected and industrialized end-to-end data pipelines for data ingestion, processing and analytics use cases – Secured and modernized existing Big Data architectures in regulated environments – Automated deployment and operational processes across environments – Designed monitoring, alerting and operational tooling for data platforms – Provided expert support and led major incident resolution on production systems
Cloud Integration & Enterprise Architect
AXA Tech
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
1 year
Région de Paris, France
– Evaluated public cloud offerings (AWS, Azure) for enterprise integration – Defined cloud integration standards and best practices – Designed secure, compliant cloud architectures – Supported project teams in public cloud adoption
Cloud & Big Data Architect – COVEA (MMA, MAAF, GMF)
Groupe Covéa
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 1 month
Région de Paris, France
– Designed and implemented shared Big Data platforms for group entities – Defined target architectures including networking, security and high availability – Provided hardware and capacity recommendations – Industrialized platform deployment and operations
Technical Architect – Voyages-SNCF (Oui.sncf)
OUI.sncf
Jan 2012 - Aug 2014
2 years 8 months
Région de Paris, France
– Architect on high-traffic, mission-critical web platforms – Following the acquisition of a European competitor, led major information systems transformation initiatives to align and modernize the two IT landscapes – Designed target architectures and defined migration and convergence strategies between legacy systems – Contributed to architecture transformation programs supporting business growth and international expansion – Designed Big Data solutions for centralized logging and observability – Participated in architecture boards and delivered technical POCs – Defined operational and supervision processes – Led robustness, performance and tuning activities
Technical Architect
La Banque Postale
Jul 2011 - Dec 2011
6 months
Région de Paris, France
– Technical Architect within the Java / JEE services team – Reverse-engineered legacy systems and produced architecture documentation – Designed web architectures (internet, intranet, extranet) – Secured application flows and web service communications – Investigated and resolved performance issues
Expert Java / Application Architect
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB
Nov 2007 - Apr 2011
3 years 6 months
Région de Paris, France
– Application Architect on a mission-critical front-to-back trading system – Designed highly available and scalable SOA architectures – Delivered new business features and refactored legacy components – Performed JVM, system, network and database tuning – Provided Level 2 / Level 3 production support
Expert Java / JEE – BNP Paribas Arbitrage
BNP Paribas
May 2006 - Nov 2007
1 year 7 months
Région de Paris, France
– Java/JEE expert in an international trading environment – Designed cross-region messaging systems (Paris, London, New York) – Built fraud-detection and trading support applications – Refactored and optimized a real-time pricing server – Improved existing fees management application
Software Engineer – Thales
Thales Services
Sep 2005 - May 2006
9 months
Paris, France
– Software Engineer on the Electronic Health Record national project – Designed and executed technical performance tests – Improved scalability and system performance – Participated in technical and functional acceptance phases
Software Engineer – SNCF
SNCF
Oct 2003 - Aug 2005
1 year 11 months
– Designed and implemented the SIREF enterprise data repository – Led data modeling and application design – Developed, deployed and supported production systems – Optimized performance and ensured operational stability
Apprentice Engineer – Alcatel CIT
Alcatel-Lucent
Sep 2000 - Aug 2003
3 years
76260 Eu, France
– Developed data collection and analytics solutions for industrial environments – Defined quality metrics and reporting tools – Implemented product traceability solutions – Supported continuous improvement and production industrialisation
Education
École Supérieure d'Électricité / Supelec
Mastère Spécialisé, Architecte des Systèmes d'Information
2011 - 2012
1 year 1 month
Ecole centrale de Paris
Master Spécialisé, Architecte des systèmes d'information, option architecte technique
2011 - 2012
1 year 1 month
CNAM
Centre d'expertise en finance, assurance et banque, Pratique des taux d'intérêt et produits monétaire
2005 - 2006
1 year 1 month
CNAM
Centre d'expertise en finance, assurance et banque, Gestion des capitaux Produits de taux et gestion
2005 - 2006
1 year 1 month
CNAM
Centre d'expertise en finance, assurance et banque, Actions, gestion des portefeuilles et produits dé
2005 - 2006
1 year 1 month
Licenses & certifications
SUN CERTIFIED DEVELOPER
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Cloudera Certified Administrator for Apache Hadoop (CCA-500)
Issued: –
SUN CERTIFIED PROGRAMMER 1.4
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