Enterprise Architect

André Fonseca

More than 20 years across telecommunications and financial services, mostly on major transformation programmes — as enterprise architect, solution architect, project manager, business analyst, team lead and senior developer. Full delivery life cycle: proposal, analysis, design, implementation, test, deployment, production support.

Lisbon, Portugal · andre.dafonseca@gmail.com

01Skills & expertise

Core competencies

  • Architecture
  • Integration & Order Management
  • Delivery & Project Management
  • Team leading
  • Presales

Sectors

  • Telecommunications
  • Financial services

02Experience

  1. — present

    Enterprise Architect Celfocus

    Vodafone Portugal

    Enterprise architect across all VBU projects.

    • Review business requirements
    • Provide the architecture vision and high-level solution for major projects
    • Facilitate T-shirt sizing with the required team SPOCs
    • Ensure architecture principles and best practices are followed
    • Review solution architecture
    • Weekly status reporting
    • Lead and moderate workshops
    • Strategic advisory to align technical solutions with business goals

  2. —

    Tech Solution & Migration Lead Celfocus

    Yettel Bulgaria

    Led technical solution and migration on a digital transformation programme.

    • Review and definition of the technical solution for customer journeys
    • Plan team member activities
    • Ensure architecture principles and best practices are followed
    • Review business requirements and solution architecture
    • Weekly status reporting
    • Dependency and risk management
    • Lead and moderate workshops
    • Strategic advisory to align technical solutions with business goals
    • Hand over designs to vendors

  3. —

    Head of Solution Architecture Guild Celfocus

    • Hiring
    • Guild member allocation
    • Ensure architecture principles and best practices across project delivery
    • Define the learning and certification path for guild members
    • Set up processes for the guild and its chapters
    • Guild budget
    • Practices roadmap and execution
    • Participation in complex bids

  4. —

    Head of Technical Product Owners Celfocus

    Telefónica Germany

    Head of Channels technical product owners in the RAITT programme.

    • TPO team status reporting and support for team member activities
    • Activities roadmap for TPOs
    • Define TPO roles and responsibilities in the project
    • Review rebuild designs; design authority for the current SI
    • Deliver Channels AID and technical designs
    • Ensure Channel architecture respects the architecture principles set by the EA team
    • Support the Channels development team
    • Raise risks

    Kubernetes · Spring Boot · Vue · Varnish · Adobe Experience Manager · Adobe Target · Adobe Experience Platform · MongoDB · self-contained systems

  5. —

    Delivery & Presales Manager Celfocus

    Africa & Middle East

    • Regional budget and strategy
    • Delivery manager for all active accounts
    • Define the delivery structure supporting accounts in the region
    • Team allocation and hiring
    • Support all presales activity in the region; bid manager
    • Customer communication

  6. —

    Senior Project Manager Celfocus

    Safaricom

    Delivered an order management upgrade.

    • Budget and planning; team allocation
    • Customer communication
    • Project deliverables: HLD, interface specs, LLD, release documents, infrastructure architecture
    • Project status and steering reports
    • Dependency and risk management

  7. —

    Delivery & Presales Manager / Architect Celfocus

    Ireland & Africa

    Presales manager and architect for all OMI activity.

    • Bid manager, bid architect, bid defence and bid review
    • Analyse requirements and define solution scope
    • Effort estimation and planning
    • Define solution architecture
    • Alignment with the offers lead and business units
    • RFP response documents; dependency management

  8. —

    Project Manager Celfocus

    Vodafone Greece

    Onboarding project within the SIG programme.

    • Budget and planning; team allocation
    • Customer communication
    • Project deliverables and status reports
    • Dependency management

  9. —

    Innovation Lead & Presales Celfocus

    Order Management & Integration business unit

    • Budget and planning; team allocation
    • Technology roadmap
    • Organised and led an innovation contest
    • Explore new technologies and report findings
    • Innovation lab
    • Presales manager for the Africa and Ireland regions

  10. —

    Project Manager Celfocus

    Vodafone Ireland

    Integration applications (CCH, SAL, FSL, PG, MEH) in the PAYG stream of the digital transformation programme.

    • Budget and planning
    • Team allocation across projects; hiring
    • Customer communication
    • Project deliverables: HLD, interface specs, LLD, release documents, infrastructure architecture
    • Project status and steering reports; dependency management

  11. —

    IT Solution Architect Celfocus

    Vodafone Ireland

    Solution architect for the pay-as-you-go stream.

    • Review end-to-end use cases and change request solutions
    • Manage architecture dependencies and vendor engagement
    • Provide and enforce architecture best practices and standards
    • Architecture appraisals; solution recommendations for gaps and architecture issues
    • Ensure end-to-end solution consistency
    • Engage key business stakeholders on roadmaps, commercial goals and challenges
    • HLD sign-off for the unified front end, covering retail, call-centre front end and IVR

  12. —

    Project Manager & Business Analyst Celfocus

    Vodafone Ireland

    Enterprise business unit projects, in both roles.

    • Define the project plan; budget, staffing and planning
    • Manage dependencies, workshop agendas and vendor engagement
    • Client communication
    • Project deliveries: epics, high-level architecture, business processes
    • As BA: workshop facilitation, action item tracking, multi-vendor alignment on the proposed solution, functional documentation

  13. —

    Project Manager Celfocus

    Vodafone Ghana

    • Manage development and QA teams across Siebel, OSM and OSB
    • Staffing and budget
    • Client communication
    • Technical documentation and project deliveries

  14. —

    Development Lead & Technical Architect Celfocus

    Vodafone Ghana

    EAI team leader and technical architect on the One Net project.

    • Manage the EAI team
    • Own the EAI solution and architecture
    • Create templates and a framework to accelerate services and processes
    • Technical documentation and all EAI deliveries
    • Effort estimation and planning

    WebLogic · Oracle SOA Suite · Oracle Service Bus

  15. —

    Senior Analyst & Developer Xpand IT

    HUF Portuguesa

    Built the solution replicating order information from BPCS into the assembly-line system, replacing a manual order creation process. Developed a SOA framework on JBoss.

    JBoss AS · JBoss ESB

  16. —

    Solutions Architect & Senior Analyst / Developer Xpand IT

    ZON

    Solution architect on the AGSM project and EAI analyst/developer on the unified front end project.

    TIBCO

  17. —

    Senior Analyst & Developer Xpand IT

    Via Verde

    Business intelligence solution for GALP movements.

    Pentaho BI Suite

  18. —

    Senior Developer Xpand IT

    Safaricom

    • Development and analysis of new integrations; release management, environment configuration and software installation
    • Order management services and integration with the SOA framework
    • Creation and configuration of order management scenarios
    • Remedy, Siebel, NMS, IN and ERP integrations using TIBCO and custom adapters

    TIBCO

  19. —

    Senior Developer Xpand IT

    Vodafone Portugal

    The EVO project centralised SAP data and processes into a global SAP instance. This changed processes with EAI impact and required new EAI processes to exchange information between the legacy and global SAP systems; developed part of those interfaces.

    webMethods

  20. —

    Senior Developer Xpand IT

    Safaricom

    • Development and analysis of new integrations; release management, environment configuration and software installation
    • Improvements to the project's SOA framework
    • Order management services and integration with the SOA framework
    • Creation and configuration of order management scenarios
    • Billing integrations (Portal Infranet)
    • Team leader

    TIBCO

  21. —

    Developer Xpand IT

    du

    Design and development of integration components in the EAI division. Owned the replication process sending client information from the billing system to all target systems.

    TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.3 · SmartMapper · adapters

  22. —

    Billing Developer CGI-AMS

    Vodafone Portugal

    Development and test of billing solutions.

    Pre-paid: C, C++, Java, Unix shell, Oracle 9i PL/SQL, UNIX, Source Safe · Post-paid: Arbor, C++, Unix shell, Sybase T-SQL, PVCS

  23. —

    Business Intelligence Developer Eb-Focus, Grupo Tecnidata

    BES Seguros

    Development of business intelligence solutions and database administration.

03Training & certifications

04Education

05Languages

Portuguese
Native
English
Fluent, written and spoken
Spanish
Basic, written and spoken