Luiz Gustavo Rocha Caldas

Engineering Manager | IT Team Lead | Senior Solutions Architect

Porto, Portugal

About

Experienced IT professional with more than 18 years in software development, solutions architecture, and technical leadership across diverse industries. Over the years, I've led multidisciplinary teams and contributed to large-scale digital transformation initiatives, always striving to balance technical excellence with effective team collaboration. I enjoy working closely with people — empowering engineers, encouraging open communication, and helping teams grow while delivering impactful solutions aligned with business needs. I'm passionate about building cohesive and motivated teams, translating complex business needs into scalable and maintainable systems, and creating an environment of continuous learning, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration.

Experience

  • IT Team Lead at Kuehne+Nagel
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Solutions Architect at HN Services Portugal
    Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr

    Leading the design and implementation of a centralized insurance distribution platform for BNP Paribas Personal Finance Group, spanning multiple countries across Europe. Responsibilities include gathering and analyzing business requirements from stakeholders across various BNP Paribas offices, developing multi-layered architectural models and diagrams (ArchiMate, BPMN and UML) addressing different perspectives, such as business use cases, application design, component structure, and technical blueprints. The position also focuses on closely supporting the development phase throughout the project lifecycle, serving as a focal point and providing technical guidance to the development team.

  • Engineering Manager at FARFETCH
    May 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Management of a multidisciplinary team of engineers, with overall planning of resource assignments and workload for different team members. Setting development goals and providing support with feedback and development plans. Product management from a technical/engineering perspective. Translate the roadmap into an execution plan, continually interact with the Product structure to keep them informed about execution status. Coordinate/collaborate on hiring, creating, and executing the training and development plan for team engineers. Manage stakeholder expectations and project dependencies.

  • SulAmérica (São Paulo, Brazil)
    • IT Architecture Manager
      Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 · 4 mos

      Responsible for leading and defining the technical aspects of projects/initiatives. Working alongside development squads, crafting solution designs based on business needs. Support and monitoring of the development team, PoCs, and exploration of new technologies for architectural technological evolution. Mapping technology assets, value streams, and modelling APIs for business evolution.

    • Solutions Architect Lead
      Nov 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Solutions Architect
      Nov 2017 - Oct 2019 · 2 yrs

  • Senior Software Engineer at Inetx S.A.
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo