Design the architectures, and lead their delivery.
Sept ans de postes de direction, lus comme architecte et comme manager.
From 2017 to 2024, three leadership roles: a digital transformation department, an information-systems department serving national platforms, then a business unit. Each time, the same dual demand: design the target architecture and lead the teams through to the result.
Period2017 – 2024, three leadership roles
OrganisationsCasa Prestations · ADD
Dual skillIS architecture · Leadership of teams and programmes
01 — THE CHALLENGE
Critical systems, teams and suppliers to align.
The three roles share one context: public or public-service systems that are sensitive, that cannot stop, and an ecosystem of internal teams, suppliers and institutions.
The challenge is not only to draw the right architecture, but to have it adopted, funded, built and operated.
02 — HOW I LEAD
Four principles, from architect to director.
1Start from the targetA target architecture and a master plan come before every programme: the destination is known before the means are chosen.
2Choose on criteriaBenchmarks, solution selection and architecture files make the decisions explainable to management.
3Steer the suppliersHigh-level design can be given to a supplier: consistency, low-level design and integration stay under internal control.
4Secure it for the long runHigh availability, disaster recovery, monitoring and ISO 27001 certification are part of the deliverable, not a later phase.
03 — THE TWO LENSES
Each role, seen as architect and as manager.
ROLE
ARCHITECTURE
MANAGEMENT
Head of Digital Transformation Casa Prestations · 2017 – 2019
● Big data and stream-processing architecture (Spark, MongoDB, Spring Boot) for urban cleanliness
● Telematics for 400 connected vehicles, with real-time anomaly detection
● Leadership of the Digital Transformation department
● Contribution to the Smart City IS master plan for Casablanca (open data, e-services, urban Wi-Fi)
Head of IS, national platforms ADD · 2019 – 2021
● National API management platform for data exchange between administrations
● Co-design of the national IAM/PKI identification platform
● Urbanisation of shared applications on the government cloud
● Benchmark and selection of the API management solution
● Coordination of the supplier’s high-level design and production of the low-level designs
● Leadership of the IS department
Director, Casa Numérique BU, cloud architect Casa Prestations · 2021 – 2024
● Migration from Azure to a sovereign cloud, active/active across 3 data centres
● Architecture of the disaster-recovery plan and the SIEM
● Architecture leadership for critical national platforms of the Ministry of the Interior
● Leadership of the Casa Numérique business unit
● ISO 27001 certification of the metropolitan information system
● Framing of the ERP migration from Sage 100 to 1000, coordinating suppliers and internal teams
What each role delivered, split between design and leadership.
ArchitectureReal-time big data, national interoperability, digital identity, sovereign cloud.
ManagementLeadership of departments and a business unit, solution selection, supplier coordination.
Security and continuityDisaster recovery, SIEM, ISO 27001 certification.
04 — THE PATH
From a department to a business unit.
1
2017 – 2019 · Casa PrestationsHead of Digital Transformation: real-time big data architecture for urban cleanliness, and a contribution to the Smart City master plan for Casablanca.
2
2019 – 2021 · ADDHead of IS: API management and national identification, from solution selection to supplier coordination.
3
2021 – 2024 · Casa PrestationsDirector of the Casa Numérique business unit: migration to the sovereign cloud, disaster recovery and SIEM, through to ISO 27001 certification.
05 — WHAT IT SHOWS
An architect who can lead.
IS urbanisationSovereign cloudAPI managementIAM / PKIISO 27001Big dataBU leadershipSupplier steering
An architecture is worth something only once it is built, adopted and operated.
This dual skill serves any transformation programme that must both define the target and lead the teams that deliver it.
Anass Benouhoud