Niek de Greef

Director of Engineering

Heiloo, North Holland, Netherlands29 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in IT architecture and integration solutions.
Instructor and mentor for aspiring IT architects.
Proven track record in complex international projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Enterprise Architecture expert with extensive experience in solution design and integration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Solution ArchitectureTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

Strategic ThinkingRed Hat LinuxREST APIsSDLCEnterprise solution designInformation and Communications Technology (ICT)Oudere systemenCustomer SatisfactionTechnology EvaluationComputerwetenschappenArchitectureScrumIntegrationMentoraatVMware

About

I am a driven, experienced IT professional combining technical, communication, and organizational skills. I have over many years of experience in ICT and have worked during this time in many different commercial and public organizations, primarily as an IT Architect. I have gained broad and deep knowledge in IT architecture, application and integration architecture, and expertise in middleware and mainframe technologies and legacy modernization. I can work well in complex (international) organizations with a complex stakeholder playing field. In this, I work from the business perspective to analyze and translate business requirements into working solutions and communicate technical challenges and choices in an understandable manner to less technical parties. My experience includes different sectors, including Finance, Industry, Public and Transportation. Furthermore, I am an IT Architecture and technology course instructor and a mentor of IT specialists and architects.

Experience

29 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs

Average Tenure

5 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Rabobank

Architect Enterprise Systems

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos

Technical LeadershipStrategic ThinkingRed Hat LinuxSolution ArchitectureREST APIsSDLC+13

Seneqa

Owner and Lead IT Architect

Mar 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam en omgeving, Nederland

Freelance IT architect
Solution architect for multiple solution in the areas of payments, application integration and DevOps automation in a large bank in the Netherlands.
Enterprise Systems architect: lead enterprise systems architecture board, responsible for architecture vision, strategy and roadmap for the enterprise systems platform for a large bank in the Netherlands.
Analysis, planning and implementation of FTM for SWIFT in context of the Swift Customer Security Programme for a bank in Malaysia.

Technical LeadershipStrategic ThinkingSolution ArchitectureREST APIsTrainingEnterprise solution design+15

Ibm

5 roles

Executive IT Architect

Promoted

May 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Financial services industry.
Lead technical Architect for backend core banking platform for a large bank.
Lead platform architect. Define platform architecture vision, strategy and planning for clients in banking, insurance an governement. Maintain and develop standards, guidelines and patterns.
Provide guidance to architects on application, integration and infrastructure architecture.
Analyze business and IT requirements and translate into IT roadmap and prioritized realization activities.
Lead solution architecture and implementation projects.
Lead architecture workshops.
Instructor of IT architecture methods and tools courses.

Technical LeadershipStrategic ThinkingSolution ArchitectureREST APIsTrainingSDLC+14

Senior IT Architect

Mar 2007 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Technical account manager, account IT Architect in the global account team for large Chemicals and Petroleum company.
Solution Architect IT Knowledge Management System.
Solution Architect engineering document collaboration hub.
Solution Architect Enterprise Service Bus platform.
Instructor of IT architecture methods and tools courses.

Technical LeadershipSolution ArchitectureTrainingSDLCEnterprise solution designInformation and Communications Technology (ICT)+12

Senior IT Architect

Promoted

Oct 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

IT Architect EMEA Software Lab Services. Architect and guide implementation IT solutions; product consultancy, education, lead architecture and integration workshops.

Technical LeadershipSolution ArchitectureTrainingInformation and Communications Technology (ICT)Technical WritingKlantsucces+7