From technology strategy to execution
Software & Solutions Director Strategy · Transformation · Engineering · Architecture
I turn complex technology challenges into concrete roadmaps, aligning strategy, organisation, engineering and architecture so that the business builds capabilities that last
Director Software & Solutions Department
Sopra Steria
Technology governance for the department: architecture and security decisions, NIS2, DORA and Cyber Resilience Act compliance, the AI-driven transformation of engineering, programme audits and roadmap reviews against value and financial alignment. Before that, from 2020 to 2025, I led transformations for the CIOs of large organisations, from strategy to execution.
Four levers, one level of responsibility
Turning technology into a measurable competitive advantage
Structuring teams, responsibilities and practices so they scale
Reducing complexity so the organisation can keep evolving
Making AI deliver real gains in productivity and quality
Four markers, each grounded in a specific engagement or scope
Working where technology, organisation and business priorities have to converge
Around ten organisations supported since 2020, on engagements of six to twenty months, across social protection, the public sector, energy, nuclear and transport. In the field throughout France and abroad, close to the teams and the managers of each site. Selected engagements include
A technology roadmap the organisation can make its own
−15% on the software factory budget
An audit that ends in a roadmap, not in a report
A few representative transformations, as evidence
Diagnosis, improvement plans, transformation roadmap, engineering practices, automation, delivery pipeline, support for the teams
Result: no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities in under nine months; automated pipelines across all 120 applications
Built the migration roadmap, then led a first batch of 5 flagship applications through to production to validate the method, the approach and the converter; then handed it over to the teams, with on-site training
Result: Method and converter validated in production on the 5 pilot applications, zero regressions, automated pipelines tested across 3 separate environments; 85% of the portfolio covered by the converter with no application-specific changes; 12 tech leads trained, now leading the migration of the rest of the portfolio
Scenario analysis (architecture, consumption, organisation, roadmap), then optimisation of the projects through Blue/Green deployment strategies and a move to Kubernetes
Result: −30% on about €6.7M of annual spend, close to €2M a year
Transforming practices, not only architectures
Keynotes, talks and live coding, from a meetup room to a hall of 1,200
Understand technology transformations. Put them into words. Pass them on
Architecture
On a green-field project, generative AI works wonders; as the project grows, its answers lose accuracy. The model has not changed: what has grown is the context it has to hold. Context Budget, the method I have introduced on several projects, splits the code into bounded contexts the AI can hold in full: the split is paid for once, and each request then pays only for its own context.
Security
Since 11 September 2026, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has required an early warning within 24h for an actively exploited vulnerability in a product, including products already on the market. Meeting that deadline depends on work done well before the incident: in the delivery chain, in the number of versions maintained, and in whether products can be mitigated without a developer.
Thoughts, notes and perspectives I publish directly here
Craftsmanship
Vibe coding lets anyone build a website, but it cannot make that website unique and safe
Leadership
A vision is only worth what teams can follow: execution that is faithful and practicable, a pragmatic trajectory rather than fine ideas nobody can keep up with
Technology strategy, organisational transformation, engineering and architecture: let’s talk about the roadmaps worth building and the transformations that still have to land.
