Mario Alfaro

Executive manager leading a large team of cyber and infrastructure architects as well as project delivery professionals.

• Accountable for the IAG Cloud and Infrastructure Strategy and roadmaps across 13 domains to support production teams deliver strategic innovation.
• Provide solution and security architects to lead complex IT projects across IAG.
• Ownership of the solution architecture practice across IAG.
• Accountable for the delivery of technology/property programs and projects across Enterprise Services at IAG.

Achievements

• Led a team of principal domain architects to establish 3 year strategies across 12 domains
• Established a project delivery intelligent dashboard used to provide comprehensive insights for senior executive leadership on the progress and status of delivery across IAG Enterprise Services.
• Led and advocated for the adoption of GenAI capabilities to automate architecture and project governance and processes as well as enhance performance of our teams.

Skills

Executive manager leading a large team of cyber and infrastructure architects as well as project delivery professionals.

• Accountable for the IAG Cloud and Infrastructure Strategy and roadmaps across 12 domains to support production teams deliver strategic innovation.
• Accountable for the secure by design control across IAG which defines the security baseline with which we build our solutions.
• Provide solution and security architects to lead complex IT projects across IAG.
• Ownership of the solution architecture practice across IAG.
• Accountable for the delivery of Programs and Projects across Enterprise Services at IAG.

Achievements

• Established a strategy lifecycle management process used to support agile product teams develop a long-term strategy for their products and thoughtfully plan continuous improvement through a quarterly planning cycle.
• Established GenAI RAG based security architecture co-pilot to accelerate secure by design assessments.
• Led the establishment of IAG's solution architecture practice focusing on the patternisation of key cloud and infrastructure components across IAG.

Skills

• Established and now maintain IAG's overall cloud strategy, reference architecture and recommended practice guardrails.
• Lead role in industrialisation of cloud across IAG.
• Principal domain architect for Public cloud (covers AWS, Azure and GCP) and Private Cloud Compute.
• Providing strategic guidance to all public cloud initiatives, these include:
  • - Establishment of cloud foundation and products with appropriate security controls.
  • - Provide cloud solution architecture guidance and approval through the Well Architected Reviews
  • - Architecture lead in cloud workload migrations
  • - Establishment of cloud operational model for assisted and autonomous teams
  • - Establishment of cloud governance
• Established a repeatable process (Cloud Adoption Framework) to enable "fast and safe" migration of workloads to the public cloud.
• Lead role in a 30in50 migration project to cloud (30 apps in 50 days)
• Lead governance role in reviewing and approving the architecture for IAG's key core systems including:
• - Policy, Billing and Claims Guidewire on AWS,
• - Financial core SAP HANA system on Azure,
• - Key Data Analytics and ML Platform on GCP and several key digital front end systems.
• Provide direction and guidance to digital and traditional teams designing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions in public cloud
• Member of several cloud governance forums to advise and approve solutions
• Providing guidance to strategic projects utilising cloud to re-imagine the business
• Provide guidance to strategic projects and product teams on functional and non-functional requirements gathering and validation
• Interact with several product teams as an advisor through the IAG Product management and planning framework
• Defined Well managed product KPIs to measure product effectiveness
• Involvement in work related to communicating with APRA within the Financial Industry space
• Providing advice and guidance in automation of security assurance and adoption of continuous compliance

Skills

• Founder of a fitness mobile application for personal trainers
• Founder of a Web App hosting startup
• Founder & CEO of ZeroCode Solutions driving sales into the Asia Pacific region a No-code startup

Skills

• Lead the strategy, design and delivery of a large scale Azure cloud based IoT solution to all 3,000 plus Woolworth's locations
• Lead the strategy, design and delivery of a large scale Virtual Reality Training system based on Azure PaaS cloud technology.
• Provided cloud architectural advise to Woolworths X initiatives
• Develop overall end-to-end solution for cloud projects.
• Lead extensive analytical work to gather business and technical requirements at a functional and non-functional level.
• Engage with the business at varying levels, as a trusted adviser to assist in making appropriate strategic and tactical project decisions.
• Lead the end-to-end solution design process and the quality of its output
• Engage with lead vendors and partners.
• Influence business stakeholders, project teams, project leadership and delivery executives.
• Contribute to solution methodology (repeat-ability, innovation and speed).
• Contribute to business case components such as TCO/ROI analysis for project funding gates.

Skills

• Over 10 years of developing enterprise wide strategies and end-to-end cloud solutions in pre-sales and delivery capacities
• Lead Architect architecting solutions across several Finance Industry companies including Commonwealth Bank, Wetspac, Bank Of Queensland, CIMB and Deutsche Bank
• Engage with all levels of the organisation, as a trusted advisor and key influencer to assist them in making appropriate strategic IT decisions on cloud technologies
• Extensive experience in commercial, financial and legal aspects of outsourcing at a pre-sales and account delivery level
• Define pre-sales win strategies, including business case development, TCO/ROI analysis and solution approach
• Identify opportunities by working with sales and leveraging existing relationships
• Knowledge of several industry segments and deep understanding of market prices for IT services in the outsourcing space
• Develop the vision and maintain enterprise architectures to enable the client's business
• Manage and lead teams of solution architects and subject matter experts to deliver on the client's business and technical requirements
• Accountability for the end-to-end solution design process and the quality of its output
• Advocate repeat-ability, innovation, best practices and speed to deliver

Skills

• Over 10 years of developing enterprise wide strategies and end-to-end cloud solutions in pre-sales and delivery capacities
• Lead Architect architecting solutions across several Finance Industry companies including Commonwealth Bank, Wetspac, Bank Of Queensland, CIMB and Deutsche Bank
• Engage with all levels of the organisation, as a trusted advisor and key influencer to assist them in making appropriate strategic IT decisions on cloud technologies
• Extensive experience in commercial, financial and legal aspects of outsourcing at a pre-sales and account delivery level
• Define pre-sales win strategies, including business case development, TCO/ROI analysis and solution approach
• Identify opportunities by working with sales and leveraging existing relationships
• Knowledge of several industry segments and deep understanding of market prices for IT services in the outsourcing space
• Develop the vision and maintain enterprise architectures to enable the client's business
• Manage and lead teams of solution architects and subject matter experts to deliver on the client's business and technical requirements
• Accountability for the end-to-end solution design process and the quality of its output
• Advocate repeat-ability, innovation, best practices and speed to deliver

Skills

• Accountable for solution in terms of quality, timeliness and compliance with business and technical requirements
• Lead Architect on several Security, Midrange and Online banking projects for Westpac
• Provide estimates and present cost, schedule, technical risk for solution elements, both in proposals and implementation planning
• Provide cost effective solutions
• Assist clients and project stakeholders in making strategic IT decisions
• Assist pre-sales and account teams with technology decisions and direction
• Present solutions and strategy to clients
• Mentor junior architects and handing over technical knowledge
• Development of Migration methodology for several projects
• Extensive use of TOGAF, PRINCE and ITIL frameworks

Skills

• Formulate and develop Gen-i and Client technical strategies and architectural designs
• Designated technical design authority for projects including design reviews and approvals
• Provide pre-sales technical advisory functions, preparation and evaluation of technical solutions.
• Provide strategic input into technological changes where appropriate to meet business needs.
• Trained and mentored staff on design technologies and methodologies.
• Utilised various frameworks including TOGAF and ITIL.

Skills

• Provide technical leadership to a team of architects and subject matter experts.
• Accountability for the end-to-end delivery of several transformation projects

Skills