Vladimir Iosifov

As a Lead Enterprise Architect responsible for maturing architecture function and capability: from adding and replacing skillset, to defining principles and standards. From high level multi-year technology transformation plan to actually building some of the core competencies (data, cloud, integration, business architecture). Managing and improving vendor relationship. Engaging and supporting business in creating holistic roadmaps. Educating organization on architecture and introducing new ways of working (with the support of PMO). Extremely passionate about the work and complexity.

Built Cloud development capabilities (by bringing in external expertise and assembling teams). Enabled Digital transformation for the entire organization by maturing Cloud and Integration capabilities. Continuous build of foundations, standards, patterns and guidelines for cloud workloads. Led setting up Integration foundations using Azure integration services. Active participation in the vendor selection process. Engaged in end-to-end solution architecture for B2B eCommerce. Helping EA team with translating business and IT strategy into roadmap and enabling separate flows to execute it.

Responsible for developing future state architectures and roadmaps for migrating workloads to the cloud. Help teams to be compliant with guidelines and standards through different processes. Actively participating in improving EA processes and capability within the bank. Supporting programs with making sure planned architectures are built by the DevOps teams.

13bln EUR global dairy company with over 20k employees. Responsible for building Enterprise Architecture capability in the enterprise starting from the very beginning. Setting EA vision, forming team, defining objectives and growing skillset required to succeed. Managing communication and stakeholders to steer progress in the right direction. All the way from describing EA value to defining the program, securing sponsorship and resources required, and executing on it. Engaging with the Business community and CXO level executives in enabling Digital transformation with the help of Enterprise Architecture. Commoditizing architecture practice by bringing standards, templates, and processes.

22bln EUR global sports retail company with about 60k employees with B2B business about 60% of total revenue. Responsible for a global B2B Sales, Service and Marketing capabilities and technical aspect of digital transformation. From roadmap and vision to execution together with the teams, and transformation and digitalizing named capabilities. Set of main activities delivered: - building and rolling out globally B2B eCommerce applications based on AWS, Kubernetes, Salesforce, SAP; - automation of build and test process; - migrating eCommerce application from monolith to microservices architecture; - migrating workloads and applications to the cloud platforms (AWS and Salesforce); - analyzing business requirements and advising business partners on the easiest way of achieving tactical/strategical targets; - supporting product owners and development teams by translating and communicating requirements and deliverables to achieve business objectives;

Designing and Implementing Change Management and Systems Lifecycle management solutions. Consulting on SAP landscape transformation. Providing robust technical solutions that improved system performance and curtailed the need for further custom development projects and optimizing business processes. End-to-end solutions design and architecture, enterprise software development, internal process development, coding standard development, senior executive reporting, technical team training and mentoring. - Act as an SME for technical component selection; - Architecting SAP landscape for large scales (500k+ users); - Architecting around licensing limitations and optimizations; - Implementing and rolling out Application Life-cycle Management;

- Designing fault tolerance environments from both hardware and software perspective; - Expanding Power and AIX delivery (proving benefit over other hypervisors and hardware components); - Perform ramp-up configuration/installations for most Power hardware; - Building company portfolio on services sold; - Setting up distributed operational team and implementing relevant KPIs and SLAs; - Leading and learning technical teams; - Creating community of practice for AIX and Power; - Implementing central life cycle management and control panel for global customers installations; - Managing international delivery team to run outsourcing services for Nordic region; - Advising clients on component selection and sizing;

Leading internal IT department and external implementation partners. Guiding management in software purchasing solutions. Performing scope and budget planning for SAP ERP, CRM and BW implementations. Harmonizing company processes for ERP implementation. Running SAP ERP, CRM and BW implementation. Implementing Business Activity Monitoring software. Growing in-house applications portfolio. Managing team to support more than 500 servers (mainly on SPARC and x86). Implementing ITIL practices and monitoring solutions within telecommunication company. Supporting lifecycle of all SAP products in the enterprise. Managing 24x7 IT support team. Growing in-house applications portfolio.