Lucas Montenegro Goncalves

IT/SAP Director | IT/SAP Manager | Lead Architecture

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Location: Nuremberg, Germany.
Mobile: + 49 172 4675390 / Email: lucas.sap1@gmail.com.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasgoncalves.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Driving global IT strategy for international corporations

• Leading global programs with +100 people and budget of over 25 million euros
• C-level stakeholder management
• 17 years of experience with IT/SAP
• 32 SAP implementation/enhancement projects with executed with sucess
• Experience with global and lead retail companies, logistics, manufacturing industries, bank/fintech, startups and state
owned companies

BUSINESS HISTORY, QUALIFICATIONS AND RESULTS

adidas (Adidas AG is a German multinational corporation, focused on designs and manufactures shoes, clothing and
accessories. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world).
Location: Germany.
Job position: Director of Enterprise Architecture – Jun/2022 – current.
✓ Management of a team composed by +100 people located in Germany, Spain, Portugal, and India.
✓ Disciplinary management of an internal team composed with 20 people, including 2 directors and 3 managers.
✓ Responsible for a budget over 25 million euros.
✓ Cost optimization of the enterprise application catalog for Data and Analytics in 75 million.
✓ Stakeholder management including C-level, Senior VP and VP from tech and business side.
✓ Driving key program and architectural decisions reporting to the VP of Enterprise Architecture.
✓ Direct contact with the business team to translate functional challenges into technical solutions.
✓ Advisory position, influencing solution decision, organization structures, selection of vendors and business partners.
✓ Project recovery and critical resolutions.

Job position: Chief Architect (via EPAM) – Oct/2021 – Jun/2022.

✓ Responsible for the technical, solution and enterprise architecture team.
✓ Support a 14 million euros RFP for software development and leader in the project execution in a team with 60 people.
✓ Implementation of complex functionality in enterprise software systems with high degree of integration with other
enterprise application.
✓ Support of challenging non-functional environments regarding performance, stability, and availability.
✓ Lead role in agile development setup to establishment of best practices for people, process, and technology.
✓ High performance evaluation – reference latter.

ALDI SÜD (Traditional German supermarket, present in 11 countries with more than 6500 stores).
Location: Germany.
Job position: Senior Solutions Architect & Senior Project Manager at ALDI SÜD - Feb/2021 – Oct/2021.
✓ Support the update of the integration strategy and creation of the roadmap concept for constant improvement.
✓ Support definition and implementation of best practices for the SAP Integration Suite.
✓ Delivery of the target architecture using, prioritizing and engage APIs and micro-services, proposing consistent,
reusable, and highly scalable solution.
✓ Creation and implementation of the interface assessment process, based on ISA-M and TOFAF to define the best
integration technologies and process for demands and projects.
✓ Leader for the alignment between key stakeholders from tech and business side.
✓ High performance evaluation – reference latter.
Lucas Montenegro Goncalves
IT/SAP Director | IT/SAP Manager | Lead Architecture

Trinseo AG (North American Global Chemical Industry focused on the manufacture of plastic, resin, and synthetic rubber).
Location: Germany.
Job position: Team Lead for eBusiness (EDI) and SAP Integration - June/2019 - Jan/2021.
✓ Leader of the Electronic Business (EDI) and SAP Integration teams, composed of 35 professionals.
✓ Financial accountable for a budget of 4 million euros.
✓ Responsible for the complete project cycle (design, implementation, support, and operation).
✓ Advisory for the senior leadership for industry best practices, trends, and technologies for the global IT strategy.
✓ Development of the roadmap for integration, reaching essential points such as API enablement, best architectural
practices, and correct relationship between TCO and ROI.
✓ Received the 2-star award provided by the company's CTO for the excellent work.

PO Consulting (Company created by SAP specialists in different areas to support highly complex projects.).
Operations: South America (Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico).
Job position: Co-Founder | Sales | Architect | Developer – December/2014 to March/2020.
✓ Co-founder responsible for the financial, commercial, architectural, development factory, and customer satisfaction.
✓ Delivered 17 implementation, support and/or improvement projects.
✓ Responsible for pre-sales, RFP, and SOW over 3 million euros.
✓ Leader of a time composed of 45 SAP consultants from different areas.
✓ Responsible for relationships with C-level, procurement, business & technology leaders.

Air Liquide (French multinational company that supplies gases and industrial services to various industries).
Location: Poland and France
Job position: Global Integration Architect - August/2018 to December/2018

✓ Architect responsible for supporting global programs.

✓ Responsible for developing an roadmap of 11 million euros for improvements related to Data, Integration and Cloud
adoption with the proposal to save around of 23 million euros.
✓ Responsible for successful global disaster recovery exercises with direct relationship with CISO and CTO.

ThyssenKrupp (German multinational company focused on industrial engineering and steel production).
Location: Poland and Germany
Job position: Senior SAP Consultant - May/2017 to August/2018.

✓ Responsible for the first production implementation of integrations using BTP/SAP CI..

Globosat (Brazilian company part of the largest television group in Latin America (Globo group), produces content for
numerous platforms and a pay television service in Latin America).
Location: Brazil
Job position: SAP Technology Leader - February/2015 to August/2016

✓ Acting as a technology leader for ABAP/Fiori, Integration, Infrastructure (Basis, Cloud) and Access Control (GRC) teams
in a project to implement the SAP ERP 6.0, with SAP HANA technology (ECC + BW), SAP Hybris and Success factors.
✓ Technologies: Hana Enterprise Cloud, PO and SCI, ABAP, GRC Access Control, Solution Manager, different
infrastructure models (on-site, public clouds, private cloud, in different models of PaaS, IaaS and SaaS), SAP Screen
People, SAP Convergent Mediation, SAP Fiori, SAP converged charging.
✓ Main results:
o Led the team of 15 direct and indirect people in a first implementation of SAP Hybris using Hana Enterprise
Cloud in Latin America).
o We delivered this project successfully and on time, keeping the SPI always above 0.97, configuring the
support team and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Grupo Bravante (Brazilian company operating in the areas of maritime support, port support, shipbuilding and repair and
environmental protection).
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IT/SAP Director | IT/SAP Manager | Lead Architecture

Location: Brazil
Job position: SAP Solution Architect - June/2013 to December/2014

✓ Responsible for the solution architecture, guiding the functional and technical team in the implementation and
support of the SAP landscape, acting as the main consultant in the company's spin-off after the acquisition of
Santander bank.
✓ Results: I managed the contracts, applications, infrastructure and database licensing in the company's spin-off,
generating a gain of R$500k in the acquisition of new products and licenses.

❖ Experiences in other important companies from Mar/2005 to June/2013, always working with SAP projects: NTT Data
(SAP Integration Architect), Clientis-S3G (Solution Architect), Sonda IT (SAP Developer), Getnet Technology (SAP
Developer), Ilegra Consulting (SAP Developer) e Linx S.A (System Analyst).

EDUCATION

• Executive MBA: Management with Emphasis on Leadership and Innovation – Concluded in 2021.
Institution: FGV - Getulio Vargas Foundation – Brazil.

• Graduated in Foreign Trade – Concluded in 2016.

Institution: University of Southern Santa Catarina – Brazil.

• Languages: English (C2), Portuguese (Native), Spanish (B2).