سمير Aliyev, Chief Enterprise Architect

سمير Aliyev

Chief Enterprise Architect

Circle K

البلد
أيرلندا
التعليم
ماجستير, Information Systems Management
الخبرات
22 years, 0 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 0 أشهر

Chief Enterprise Architect في Circle K
  • أيرلندا
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ أكتوبر 2016

Strategy and Planning
• Development of Global IT enterprise architecture, principles, processes, methodologies and strategy by defining and building a future technology roadmap for Circle K with well-constructed transition phases.
• Shape strategic investment in technology through business systems planning, budgeting and direction to sourcing and vendor management.
• Facilitate and drive the IT decision making process
• Definition and establishment of architecture governance.
• Manage architecture input into developing the strategic direction over business processes, applications, data and integration.
• Chairing Global Architecture Review Board.

Digital Platform
Design and architecture of the Next Generation Digital Platform consisting of:
• Retail and ecommerce
• Customer engagement platform
• Loyalty engine
• Digital and social media marketing
• Real time data lake architecture
• API and event driven layer
• Mobile and web platforms
• Payment platform
• Predictive fuel pricing using AI
• IoT architecture
• Stock management
• Legacy platforms modernization (Microservices strangler pattern)

Standards and compliance

• Govern major change programmes in their user of information technologies, ensuring appropriate use of IT and delivery of business requirements.
• Oversee security governance for all business system environments.
• Establish and maintain “fit for purpose” technology standards that enable the simplification of the technology landscape.
• Ensure that the architecture standards will allow business needs to be achieved, guiding research on industry standards and technologies together with the establishment of best practices that guide the design of technology solutions.

Management
• Management and development of a team of Domain Architects across different geographical locations
• Stakeholders’ management.
• External vendors and partners management.

Chief Architect في Zurich Insurance Group
  • أيرلندا
  • يناير 2015 إلى أكتوبر 2016

Zurich is a one of the largest insurance and financial services organization employing more than 60, 000 people globally.
Enterprise Architecture:
• Setting a strategy and creating integrated architectures for application, data and infrastructure domains that
enable large business transformation programs.
• Create future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting
company’s cost and risk reduction objectives
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and
guidelines, and blueprints
• Analyze business and technology challenges, assess costs and suggest solutions.
• Design and execute proof-of-concepts for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business cases with
costs, benefits and efficiency measures
• Develop, enhance and maintain reference architectures for various capabilities.
• Translate business requirements into systems qualities and reputable design strategies and patterns, such as
adaptability, scalability, availability and reusability
• Target Operating Models: including business capability modelling, process redesign and building effective
business/architecture governance methodologies.
• Infrastructure and Business Process Outsourcing management with external partners/suppliers.
• Collaborate closely with project implementation teams, providing practical support and guidance to ensure that
the architecture and designs are effectively implemented.
Solution Governance:
• Assurance that both existing and new infrastructure services are fully standardized, optimized for both price and
performance, and are closely aligned to the overall Enterprise Architecture.
• Working closely with internal and outsourced partners to ensure that the agreed Enterprise Infrastructure
Architecture is implementable and remains fit for purpose at all times
• Regular review of existing platforms and recommendations on improvements as necessary, to promote
standardization and more optimal usage of infrastructure resources.
• Provide sign off for new solutions as part for the Transition and Change Management.
Global Transformation programs:
• Acting as a leading member of a Global Architecture Board for largest IT transformation programs in Zurich
Insurance group’s history which includes several towers such as global datacenter migration and consolidation,
digital transformation, user mobility, cloud integration and mobile.
People Management:
• Leading of geographically dispersed team of Infrastructure, Application, Datacenter and Middleware Architects
based in Iberia and Latin America countries
• Management of Zurich’s outsourced vendors and providers in the areas of architecture, technology and
standardization assurance.

Chief Technology Architect في Novosco
  • أيرلندا
  • يوليو 2013 إلى يناير 2015

Novosco is a leading provider of Cloud Technologies, Managed Service and IT consulting with offices in Belfast,
Birmingham and Dublin.
Technology Architecture:
• Ownership of IT Architecture strategy, vision and standards
• Analyze industry and business trends across ICT, HPC and Cloud technologies
• Lead technical projects, define the overall project architecture and design
• Definition and execution of IT Architecture roadmap and governance framework to ensure all applications,
systems and architectural components are fully aligned to Novosco’s strategy
• Define and implement system architectures that meet specific business needs and market development
opportunities.
• Oversee the design and implementation of all projects, ensuring successful delivery against project timelines
and budgets.
Hosting and Private Cloud:
• Managing a dedicated business unit within the Novosco ROI to deliver shared hosting and private cloud
solutions to external clients.
• Overall responsibility for the pre-sales, products, pricing, technical and commercial strategy, and profitability /
P&L of the business unit.
• Identify / track industry trends and develop opportunities and business strategies to deliver new viable
solutions and services to the market to address demand.
• Partner with various vendors understanding the products and services offering to customers. Manage
relationships with current vendors as well as lead the evaluation and introduction of new vendors.
• Provide strategic level technical leadership on selection, design, development and integration of the strategic
technology platforms.
• Technical authority for design and future direction of Novosco’s Cloud based services (CloudStream™ Managed
Services), including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Backup as a
Service

Solutions Architect في Novosco
  • أيرلندا
  • فبراير 2008 إلى يوليو 2013
Solutions Architect في VCE – The Virtual Computing Environment Company
  • أيرلندا
  • مايو 2011 إلى مارس 2012

Seconded from Novosco for 9 months contract
VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel,
accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the
cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers.
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IT Systems Administrator for Europe, Middle East and Africa sites (EMEA)

في Halliburton Brown & Root Inc Company
  • يونيو 2002 إلى فبراير 2008

Halliburton is the world’s largest engineering and oil services company employing some 87, 000 staff and operating in
more than 130 countries around the world
Provided IT services to one of the largest oil projects in the world with $2.8bln budget with about 10000 users.
24 hours IT support to Europe, Middle East and Africa sites of a Halliburton company

IT Analyst في Halliburton Brown & Root Inc Company
  • أيرلندا
  • يناير 2003 إلى يونيو 2003

الخلفية التعليمية

ماجستير, Information Systems Management
  • في Washington International University
  • ديسمبر 2004

Subject:

الثانوية العامة أو ما يعادلها, physics and mathematics
  • في Azerbaijan State University
  • أغسطس 1997

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Specialties & Skills

Containers
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Computing
IT Architecture
IT Infrastructure
BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
BUSINESS PROCESS
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
DELIVERY
FINANCIAL
INSURANCE
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
MIDDLEWARE

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