Felipe Tavares — brain glyph brand mark Felipe Tavares

Journey

The story behind the architecture

Felipe Tavares is a senior enterprise and business architecture leader with 18 years across trading, banking, consulting and manufacturing industries. The consistent thread: translating complex trade and operational processes into defensible target architectures, and, increasingly, turning AI and data strategy into measurable business value. He leads in a global matrix and has moved architecture from gatekeeping to orchestrator and hands-on delivery.

Role chapters

  1. Jun 2023 — Present

    Sr. Principal Architect Leader · Cargill

    Amsterdam, NL

    Setting the enterprise architecture direction for Agriculture & Trading — AI capabilities, Platform-as-a-Product, and global integration

    AI & GenAI
    Anchors the enterprise AI and GenAI capabilities for Agriculture & Trading — from agentic engineering patterns to a GenAI productivity capability for the front-office research workflow.
    Future State Strategy
    Delivered the Future State Strategy for Data and Integration, establishing the architecture direction for a Platform-as-a-Product data estate across a highly matrixed, federated organization.
    Functional direction
    Functional direction across a large, federated architecture and engineering organization spanning trading, integration, and data — Enterprise Architecture as the connective tissue for the Agriculture & Trading business.
    • AI & Agentic Engineering
    • Enterprise & Business Architecture
    • Data Architecture & Engineering
    • Cloud & Platform Architecture
    • Integration Architecture
    Tech stack

    AI & Agentic

    • Claude
    • OpenAI
    • Pinecone
    • Abacus.AI
    • TrueFoundry
    • Agentic Engineering

    Data Platform

    • Snowflake
    • AWS Lakehouse
    • dbt
    • Spark
    • Atlan Catalog
    • Data Contracts
    • Aurora PostgreSQL
    • Neptune

    Integration & Events

    • Confluent Cloud
    • Apache Flink
    • AWS SQS
    • Solace
    • Boomi
    • API Management
    • Event-driven architecture

    Enterprise Applications

    • SAP S/4HANA
    • SAP BTP
    • ServiceNow

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes

    Architecture Patterns

    • Hexagonal Architecture
    • CQRS
  2. Oct 2021 — May 2023

    Global Product Data Leader · Cargill

    Amsterdam, NL

    Commercializing data as a product and mapping the path to a modernized platform

    Revenue uplift
    Delivered data products for operational and analytical use cases, heavily increasing revenue across the trading business.
    Future State Strategy
    Conceived and delivered the Future State Strategy for Data — the blueprint that led to an 8-figure program to modernize the data platform for Agriculture & Trading.
    Cost efficiency
    Reduced cost across the product-data estate while managing vendor contracts and initiatives to drive efficiency.
    • Data Management & Analytics
    • Digital Strategy & IT Strategy
  3. Dec 2020 — Sep 2021

    Head of Data & Analytics · EVBOX

    Amsterdam, NL

    Building the data and analytics function and delivering significant savings across the business

    Cost savings
    Significantly reduced SAP programme cost and BI run-cost, demonstrating the direct business value of the new data and analytics function.
    Data function
    Built and led the data and analytics function from the ground up at a fast-scaling EV charging infrastructure company — team, tooling, and operating model designed to support rapid growth.
    • Data Management & Analytics
    • Portfolio & Program Management
    Tech stack
    • Snowflake
    • SAP
    • Salesforce
  4. Jul 2019 — Nov 2020

    Senior Manager, Data and SAP · PwC Netherlands

    Amsterdam, NL

    Taking PwC's SAP advisory from its first Netherlands program to established practice

    First SAP program
    Responsible for the first SAP program ever sold by PwC in the Netherlands — a utilities company digital transformation that defined the ETRM/ERP capability boundary and asset-management split across both systems.
    Global brewer
    Led the Central Finance Data and R2R workstream at a major global brewer — the most complex financial data design challenge in the program.
    Practice inception
    Led the inception of PwC's SAP practice in the Netherlands, establishing the delivery model and team structure from the ground up.
    • SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
    • Enterprise & Business Architecture
    Tech stack
    • SAP
    • Equias
  5. Jul 2018 — Jul 2019

    Order-to-Cash Solution Lead · Siemens

    Lisbon, PT Munich, DE

    Owning the order-to-cash solution on Siemens' Global SAP S/4HANA rollout

    Global O0C ownership
    Led the order-to-cash solution on the Global SAP S/4HANA rollout — responsible for process design, system configuration, and delivery across multiple markets.
    Run-cost reduction
    Delivered a standardized, best-practice order-to-cash build that significantly reduced run-cost for the programme.
    • SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
    • Portfolio & Program Management
    Tech stack
    • SAP S/4HANA
  6. Jul 2017 — Jul 2018

    Finance Consultant/Business Architect · SAP

    Lisbon, PT

    Delivering best-practice SAP S/4HANA builds that materially reduce client cost

    Client cost reduction
    Business architecture on an SAP S/4HANA order-to-cash rollout: standard, best-practice build design that materially reduced client implementation cost.
    • SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
    Tech stack
    • SAP S/4HANA
  7. Sep 2013 — Aug 2016

    Senior Product Manager, ERP & Treasury · BTG Pactual

    Rio de Janeiro, BR

    Designing a trading business from the middle office out

    Back-office & ERP
    Led the team that maintained and improved the bank's SAP ERP, supporting back-office operations across trading and asset management.
    Process design
    Designed the middle- and back-office process and flows — risk, P&L, position, MTM through settlement — for a commodities trading business stand-up.
    Regulatory programs
    Led the implementation of major regulatory programs, coordinating cross-functional squads across the trading and asset-management back office.
    • Enterprise & Business Architecture
    • Portfolio & Program Management
  1. Jun 2023 — Present

    Sr. Principal Architect Leader · Cargill

    Amsterdam, NL

    Setting the enterprise architecture direction for Agriculture & Trading — AI capabilities, Platform-as-a-Product, and global integration

    • AI & Agentic Engineering
    • Enterprise & Business Architecture
    • Data Architecture & Engineering
    • Cloud & Platform Architecture
    • Integration Architecture
  2. Oct 2021 — May 2023

    Global Product Data Leader · Cargill

    Amsterdam, NL

    Commercializing data as a product and mapping the path to a modernized platform

    • Data Management & Analytics
    • Digital Strategy & IT Strategy
  3. Dec 2020 — Sep 2021

    Head of Data & Analytics · EVBOX

    Amsterdam, NL

    Building the data and analytics function and delivering significant savings across the business

    • Data Management & Analytics
    • Portfolio & Program Management
  4. Jul 2019 — Nov 2020

    Senior Manager, Data and SAP · PwC Netherlands

    Amsterdam, NL

    Taking PwC's SAP advisory from its first Netherlands program to established practice

    • SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
    • Enterprise & Business Architecture
  5. Jul 2018 — Jul 2019

    Order-to-Cash Solution Lead · Siemens

    Lisbon, PT Munich, DE

    Owning the order-to-cash solution on Siemens' Global SAP S/4HANA rollout

    • SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
    • Portfolio & Program Management
  6. Jul 2017 — Jul 2018

    Finance Consultant/Business Architect · SAP

    Lisbon, PT

    Delivering best-practice SAP S/4HANA builds that materially reduce client cost

    • SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture
  7. Sep 2013 — Aug 2016

    Senior Product Manager, ERP & Treasury · BTG Pactual

    Rio de Janeiro, BR

    Designing a trading business from the middle office out

    • Enterprise & Business Architecture
    • Portfolio & Program Management