Proof before promise
I'd rather show an auditable system or a published piece than recite a method.
Profile
Loïc Pontani
Technical director · Programme director · independent
20 years on high-stakes IT transformations in banking, insurance and public finance. I have led a 20-person Data & BI service centre and a €12M portfolio, steered data-migration programmes, and designed end to end a critical SaaS platform with evidential value.
Availability
What I am looking for
For an HR director, a headhunter or an IT leader: the concrete facts, at a glance.
- Looking for
- Technical direction, programme direction, data architecture and migrations — Data and AI contexts
- Format
- Time-and-materials, long missions (1 year and more)
- Availability
- Immediate
- Mobility
- Paris area or full remote
- Mission language
- French (professional English)
- Status
- Independent — billed via PHYDYA (SARL)
- Education
- Postgraduate in computer science · Leading SAFe 5 & 6
The structure
Phydya is me — and a network
Phydya is a senior expert on the front line: me, Loïc Pontani. You work directly with the person who designs, arbitrates and delivers.
I bring in a focused network of trusted partners (developers, data engineers, domain specialists) when a project outgrows one person. You keep a single, accountable contact; you gain the capacity of a team when you need it.
Career
20 years on critical systems
- Since 2025
Technical director & architect · Phydya software product
Designing and building a digital vault with evidential value: architecture, security, compliance and delivery, from specification to production. Proof and compliance (HSM, RFC 3161, blockchain anchoring, WORM, chained audit), IaC industrialisation, AI-assisted delivery.
- 2026
Data migration lead — Workday Finance programme · Opteven
Migration strategy and framework towards Workday Finance from Agresso and four adjacent systems: 8 migration objects, 1,500+ mapped fields, up to 7M records. AI-assisted steering for mapping and non-regression controls.
- 2026
Data architect — platform migration · Blue Whale
Migration of a business ERP Oracle database to PostgreSQL under traceability requirements: 300+ tables, 4 environments, 329 versioned migrations, row-by-row hash reconciliation. Migration completed without a single anomaly.
- 2021 – 2025
Director of the Data & BI service centre · Generali France
Leading a 20-person team, a pooled €12M portfolio over 4 years. ETL modernisation, decision-indicator standardisation, technical governance, value-driven steering.
- 2016 – 2021
Data Product Owner · Bpifrance — Export Insurance
Data lead for the Export Insurance business: recovery of the COFACE decision-support estate, data governance, SAFe rollout across the BU, roadmap and backlog steering.
- 2011 – 2016
Web & Cloud BU lead / Data Manager · ISE Systems (formerly NSIT)
Leading the Java / Web & Cloud practice and fixed-price Data projects for large accounts: hiring, pre-sales and contracts, publishing a SaaS ETL quality-metrics offering, ETL expertise and audits.
- 2006 – 2011
Finance & HR IT project manager · IBM Global Business Services
ERP and decision-support projects (PeopleSoft GL/EPM, DataStage) for Natixis, Crédit du Nord, Pernod Ricard and Lafarge, then leading a 12-person maintenance service centre, 10 of them offshore.
What holds me
My values
Operational honesty
I name the problems, risks and limits. A clear-eyed diagnosis beats a reassuring brochure.
Refusing the interchangeable
No copy-pasted generic architecture, no content churned out. Every deliverable is situated.
Cooperation
Coordinating business, IT and operations: a critical system is delivered with the teams, not against them.
Go further
Contact me, follow me, hire me
A mission, a project, a question?
Tell me the context — I answer with a point of view.