Nizar S.

Key Responsibilities & Achievements - Defined the target Azure architecture aligned with business, operational, security, and group strategy requirements, delivering multiple technical scenarios, cost estimations, operational impact analyses, and a clear migration roadmap. - Supported the Data & Integration team throughout their Azure cloud migration to a group‑managed Landing Zone, covering network design, security controls, and DevOps practices. - Contributed to the creation of an Azure Center of Excellence (CoE) by supporting the infrastructure team in defining objectives, governance scope, team sizing, roles and responsibilities, and required hiring profiles.

Key Cloud Architecture Responsibilities: - Led the cloud migration strategy and execution (“lift and shift”) from on-premises data centers to Microsoft Azure, achieving 100% cloud infrastructure with an annual consumption of €xxM. - Designed, deployed, trained users on, and provided support for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) platforms — reducing environment delivery time from 2 weeks to ~20 minutes, integrating AKS within enterprise security and architecture standards, and increasing adoption by 200%. Key Security Architecture Responsibilities: - Developed and maintained security architecture standards across cloud infrastructures, networks, applications, AI, and APIs, and promoted their adoption across IT teams — built a reference framework operated by group security architects across a portfolio of over 800 applications. - Served as Solution Owner for Customer IAM (managing ~15,000 B2B users across 40+ countries) and Cryptography (covering ~50,000 devices). Key Business and Data Projects: - Life Underwriting, Reinsurance Retrocession, and collaboration with Data Platform and Data Science teams (leveraging Azure OpenAI, Databricks, and Palantir).

Member of the Group Technical Services department, acting as an Enterprise Architect: - Acted as Lead Architect for public cloud projects, defining design and architecture patterns on AWS and Azure platforms. - Contributed to enterprise architecture initiatives under the SAFe framework, including technical analysis of transformation programs (e.g., onboarding new clients, improving service resiliency, redesigning network connectivity). - Designed FinOps and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR/RSE) models to align cloud usage with financial and sustainability goals. - Conducted technical audits and architecture reviews to ensure compliance and optimize system performance. + Served as Enterprise Architect within an Agile Center of Excellence (under SAFe), supporting 5 feature teams and 40 DevOps engineers.

Delivered consulting services on IT performance and transformation projects within the insurance sector: - Conducted IT performance benchmarking and assessments; defined optimization plans and transformation roadmaps. - Contributed to operational model transformations, including service catalog redesign, activity modeling, and sourcing strategies. - Developed IT sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives and operational efficiency goals.

- IT technical governance - Datacenter and Cloud architecture design

- Target technical architectures design and transformation plans steering - Technical/ financial scenarios definition and decision support - IT services catalog definition and implementation - ITIL process implementation - Opportunities study and POC (Proof of Concept): Cloud and Big Data

Web development and system administration within Agile/DevOps team (5-6 people): - Development on PHP/Zend/Drupal/SugarCRM platforms and MySQL/PostgreSQL databases - Open-Source systems / tools administration: Debian, Nagios, GLPI, Apache