# Journey

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.

## Roles

### Sr. Principal Architect Leader · Cargill

2023-06 — Present, 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.

Domains: AI & Agentic Engineering, Enterprise & Business Architecture, Data Architecture & Engineering, Cloud & Platform Architecture, Integration Architecture

### Global Product Data Leader · Cargill

2021-10 — 2023-05, 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.

Domains: Data Management & Analytics, Digital Strategy & IT Strategy

### Head of Data & Analytics · EVBOX

2020-12 — 2021-09, 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.

Domains: Data Management & Analytics, Portfolio & Program Management

Tech stack: Snowflake, SAP, Salesforce

### Senior Manager, Data and SAP · PwC Netherlands

2019-07 — 2020-11, 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.

Domains: SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture, Enterprise & Business Architecture

Tech stack: SAP, Equias

### Order-to-Cash Solution Lead · Siemens

2018-07 — 2019-07, Lisbon, PT

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

- **Global O2C 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.

Domains: SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture, Portfolio & Program Management

Tech stack: SAP S/4HANA

### Finance Consultant/Business Architect · SAP

2017-07 — 2018-07, 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.

Domains: SAP Delivery, Strategy & Architecture

Tech stack: SAP S/4HANA

### Senior Product Manager, ERP & Treasury · BTG Pactual

2013-09 — 2016-08, 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.

Domains: Enterprise & Business Architecture, Portfolio & Program Management