Steve Kiekens

Solutions Architect at Episode Six / Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager / Payment Solutions

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

About

A Senior Project Manager with, predominantly, experience in the financial, operations and IT area. Main Skills: * Senior Project manager of complex technology projects, including Debit/Credit Cards Banking, Product Processors, Voice Technology, E Products and CRM Solutions (VisionPlus/Java) * Leader of multi $M projects (=digital channels, Java, Siebel, ..) * Experienced people manager (=50+ people) of multilingual teams in diverse geographies. * Migrations and re engineering specialist, in charge of execution holding business strategies. * International cards banking subject matter expert. * 20+ years of experience in the Financial Sector. * Multilingual. System knowledge: CRM solutions: VisionPlus, Java, API, Siebel, Host, Mainframe. Voice Technology: Avaya, Lucent, Servion, IVR Infinity, Queuebuster, Aspect Autodialer. PM tools: Jira, Confluence, PowerBI Being an experienced, multilingual professional within the credit card development/delivery environment, I’m equally happy to transfer my set of skills to other areas outside the financial sector.

Experience

  • Solutions Architect at Episode Six (E6)
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • NTT DATA Europe & Latam ()
    • Senior Business Analyst for Allianz Technology Australia
      Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos

      Business analyst, in charge of the implementation of micro services for the Insurance Solutions Offering process at Allianz Australia.

    • Senior Business Analyst for Allianz Technology Italy
      Mar 2024 - Sep 2024 · 7 mos

      In charge of establishing a vertical solution for claim handling / Provider management processes for Allianz Italy insurance.

  • Freelance - Business Transformation consultant at NADM
    Mar 2023 - Dec 2023 · 10 mos

    Freelance - Business Transformation consultant

  • VisionPlus consultant for EMEA Business Solutions Credit/Debit cards at First Data / Fiserv at Fiserv
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2023 · 8 yrs 1 mo

    VisionPlus consultant/expert, responsible for a number of debit and credit card value chains, specialized in card systems migrations.

  • Freelance - Business Transformation consultant at NADM
    Dec 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Mobile Application Design