Enterprise Strategy Leader

Building for the real world.

Senior Solution Architect with 15+ years of experience designing cloud, data, integration, and security solutions for regulated enterprises. Experienced in target-state architecture, technology roadmaps, application rationalization, modernization, analytics platforms, and architectural governance.

15+ Years Experience
Enterprise Architecture
FinTech Enterprise Delivery

About

Architecture with a builder's mindset.

I'm a hands-on, driven, and innovative information technology professional with over 15 years of experience leading, designing, developing, and delivering enterprise solutions on time and within budget. I consistently lead through influence, bringing cross-functional teams together to deliver enterprise-level solutions in fast-paced and highly regulated industries.

Name Luis De Freitas
Current Role Solution Architect II
Email luisrdefreitas@gmail.com
Focus Enterprise Architecture

Experience

Professional Experience

08/2021 - Current

Paychex

Solution Architect II

  • Evaluated and benchmarked the enterprise business intelligence stack, including Visier, Power BI, Oracle Analytics Server, and internal reporting tools, to reduce licensing costs and unify corporate data delivery.
  • Architected the Visier Analytics integration with the flagship Flex platform, expanding advanced analytics to more than 700,000 corporate clients and improving access to retention insights.
  • Architected the integration of the client-facing MicroStrategy analytics platform with the Flex ecosystem, unifying reporting interfaces and scaling self-service business intelligence for high-concurrency demand.
  • Collaborated on the enterprise ransomware resilience and disaster recovery strategy, establishing cross-functional security guardrails and immutable architecture patterns to protect mission-critical business lines.
  • Led the modernization of the enterprise document storage ecosystem, defining a highly scalable, cloud-native target state that reduced compliance risk and improved data lifecycle management.
  • Provided architectural governance and technical leadership across multiple lines of business, helping cross-functional agile teams align product delivery with enterprise standards.
  • Executed emerging technology proofs of concept (POCs), creating feasibility frameworks that accelerated software rationalization and reduced risk in complex platform migrations.
  • Built stakeholder alignment by presenting and defending strategic architectural proposals to directors, executives, and the corporate architectural review board.
08/2020 - 12/2021

CastleBranch

Solution Architect

  • Defined and executed scalable target-state architectures aligned with corporate capability maps, establishing governance guardrails that accelerated time to market for strategic offerings.
  • Orchestrated enterprise-wide application portfolio rationalization, delivering substantial OpEx savings and mitigating technical debt by modernizing legacy silos into reusable architectural patterns.
  • Executed rapid proofs of concept (POCs) to produce clear feasibility data and validate business cases before large-scale capital investment.
  • Led technical governance and roadmap alignment across complex business units, presenting strategic architecture directly to C-level executives and the corporate architectural review board.
  • Designed and introduced enterprise blueprint standards aligned with TOGAF, balancing immediate project delivery with long-term business capability growth.
08/2017 - 06/2020

Citizens Bank

Risk Applications Solution Architect

  • Detailed the design, sizing, and scope of an AWS cloud loss forecasting solution for CECL compliance.
  • Developed detailed solution architecture documents and diagrams presented to management, product owners, and the architectural review board.
  • Coordinated and supported disaster recovery activities across the risk application portfolio, including on-premises, cloud, and vendor applications.
  • Managed multiple integration projects related to monitoring and compliance across the organization.
  • Developed and maintained application and platform roadmaps supporting business and IT strategies for loss forecasting, monitoring, and compliance.
  • Provided technical guidance and consultation as a subject matter expert for applications in the risk portfolio.
03/2007 - 05/2017

Rhode Island Student Loan Authority (RISLA)

Information Security Administrator / IT Developer

Directed architecture, compliance governance, and risk mitigation for the enterprise information security program, ensuring alignment with GLBA, PCI DSS, and SOC 1 Type I frameworks. Over a ten-year tenure, bridged engineering and infrastructure by architecting full-lifecycle database migrations, modernizing legacy data warehouse reporting pipelines, and engineering highly available business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) environments.

  • Engineered and optimized core B2B API integrations with financial networks, including Experian and DocuSign, establishing secure, highly available endpoints that modernized loan processing workflows.
  • Designed and delivered enterprise web applications and scalable software systems, establishing secure, cloud-ready patterns across customer-facing digital platforms.

Education

Education and Training

New England Tech - USA Associate Degree in Software Engineering
New Professions University - Venezuela Associate Degree in Computer Science
A Cloud Guru AWS Solutions Architect, Big Data, Developer, Kubernetes, Well-Architected Framework
Udemy GraphQL, Terraform, ITIL 4, DynamoDB, microservices architecture, microservices security

Architecture stack

Enterprise Competencies

Strategic Architecture & Governance Target-state architecture, technology roadmaps, architectural review boards (ARB), capability modeling, software rationalization, ITIL.
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS ecosystem (Redshift, DynamoDB), cloud migration strategy, microservices architecture, event-driven patterns, high availability, and disaster recovery (BC/DR).
Data Architecture & Analytics Snowflake, MicroStrategy, Visier Analytics, data warehousing, complex ETL pipelines (SSIS/DTS), enterprise reporting ecosystems.
Security & Compliance Information security governance, risk mitigation, zero-trust frameworks, GLBA, PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type I.
Core Engineering Foundations .NET, Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, OpenShift, Agile/Scrum methodology.

Contact

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