Nuno Pereira

• StrategicAI/DigitalTransformation: Explore, promote, and disseminate AI-driven innovations to enrich processes, create added business value, and continuously upskill the team.
• Talent & People Leadership: Foster an environment of learning, collaboration, and trust, maintaining low turnover. Mentor and empower team members to become independent, confident professionals.
• Financial Oversight: Oversee cost and budget allocations (≈€1 million annually), ensuring efficient resource utilization and alignment with business technology goals.
• Architectural Governance: Actively participate in high level architectural discussions and remove delivery blockers, ensuring project success and technical roadmaps are met.
• Recruitment & Growth: Conduct interviews and recruit ment to attract top-tier talent, strengthening the team’s tech nical capabilities and cultural fit.

Strategy

• Pioneered the SAP Cloud Integration team’s foundation, defining technical expertise, security, and service architecture with all business and security stakeholders.
• Architected and implemented a comprehensive CI/CD platform using GIT and Jenkins, establishing new Integration Patterns and best practices that standardized team development and reduced deployment lead time by 40%.
• Significantly improved operational stability by establishing centralized monitoring, automated failure monitoring integrated with JIRA/ServiceNow, and robust Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes.

People Management & Development

• Defined team roles and clarity using a RACI matrix to optimize cross-functional collaboration and reduce hand-off time.
• Actively managed talent lifecycle, including technical interviews, onboarding, appraisals, and providing technical guidance and coordination for external resources.
• Created reusable learning assets (recordings, documentation, and templates) that streamlined the onboarding process for new employees.

Technical Excellence & Automation

• Spearheaded the CI/CD automation pipeline using Node.js and Go, enabling daily automated backups, source code quality checks (Lint), and documentation generation.
• Enhanced security posture through X.509 certificate generation/validation and robust TLS setup.
• Demonstrated versatility in cloud platforms Cloud Foundry, Kyma Kubernetes with Docker and low-code solutions.

Architecture

• Expertly designed and implemented full-lifecycle SAP Integration Suite solutions, using Cloud Integration, API Management, and Trading Partner Management (TPM) for B2B interfaces.
• Architected and governed Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) by integrating key systems using SAP Event Mesh for asynchronous communication and leveraging Cloud Integration connectivity to Azure Event Hub.
• Standardized infrastructure provisioningby integrating Terraform with BTP to manage and automate cloud resources (Infrastructure as Code - IaC).
• Led the utilization of SAP BTP services to enhance operational efficiency: CALM, ANS, cTMS, and BAS.

CI/CD & Platform Automation

• Established a robust CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and GIT,developing custom Node.js applications for essential task automation and streamlined deployment.
• Enhanced code quality and standardization by implementing Cloud Integration Lint extensions and enforcing a common platform framework for all interfaces.
• Developed a custom SAP UI5 application to centrally extract and manage critical Cloud Integration parameters across all system instances, significantly improving visibility and administration.

Team Enablement & Quality

• Provided dedicated technical guidance and training to the team, focusing on new quality measures and best practices to proactively reduce integration errors in production.
• Managed backlog assignment and prioritization, ensuring alignment between team efforts and strategic business objectives

Technical Leadership & Innovation

• Led and developed a full-stack project to manage shifts and overtime for production facilities in Malaysia, adhering to strict quality controls (UI Testing, Backend Unit Tests, LINT).
• Drove technological modernization by migrating old Web Dynpro Java applications to newer technologies and decommissioning outdated systems.
• Spearheaded multiple innovation initiatives, including:
  • Creating an AI-powered facial recognition system for alternative clock-in/out methods (PoC).
  • Developing an Augmented Reality (AR) indoor navigation app.
• Led the Chatbot initiative using the Microsoft Bot Framework hosted on Azure.

People Management & Development

• Mentored and guided junior resources to upskill them in required technical areas, enhancing overall team capability.
• Contributed actively to team growth by performing technical interviews and managing the successful onboarding of new employees.

Strategy

• Created the SAP HANA Database team in Porto and upskilled our consultants with trainings in this area
• Created POCs on most proficient SAP areas, some nodejs applications, SAP developments into cloud

People Management

• Technical Training and guidance

Technical

• Lead various development projects at Sonae from a technical perspective
• Senior developer on SAP SE project initiative

Programming Languages

• SAP UI5
• Java and Web Dynpro JAVA
• ABAP
• NodeJS

Tools

• Jira
• SuccessFactors
• Jenkins
• Git
• Fortify Scan
• HP Load Runner
• JMeter

Side Projects (outside working time)

• J2EE Trainings to Olisipo and Blip

Strategy

• Development of the netweaver vision, roadmap and architecture to the company for the future revealing strategic areas and resources/time needed to fulfil the needs.
• Responsible to hire and upskill new resources into the team
• Responsible for my team appraisals

People Management

• Technical Training and guidance
• 360º Appraisals
• Motivate my team members to work on the areas they enjoyed the most

Technical

• Lead various development projects for Schlumberger from a technical perspective
• Development using both Web Dynpro JAVA and ABAP
• Configured SAP Incident Management tool
• ABAP Performance Analysis on Oracle

Programming Languages

• SAP Portal
• Java and Web Dynpro JAVA
• ABAP

Security

• Configured SAML assertion tokens between .NET and SAP environment
• Configured SSO using Kerberos

Tools

• Sharepoint
• SAP NWDI
• SAP Solution Manager
• Eclipse
• SAP CRM

Strategy

• Programming, research and analysis on portal solutions (liferay, jboss, jetspeed, websphere portal)
• Analysis of web frameworks to use (tapestry, wicket, rich faces, ice faces, my faces, tomahawk)
• Trainer on Java Server Faces, IBM Websphere Portal and J2EE

People Management

• Technical Training and guidance

Technical

• Web Programming (JSF, Struts, Javascript and CSS)

Programming Languages

• IBM Websphere Portal
• Java, Jython

Tools

• IBM Lotus Notes
• Eclipse
• Ant
• Maven

Side Projects (outside working time)

• Investigation on new development frameworks to be adopted by the team