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Rani MahmoudiRM

Rani Mahmoudi

IT Program manager

€1,150/day
Bâle, CH
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Rani

Directeur de programme IT senior avec plus de 20 ans d’expérience dans des environnements internationaux complexes (Banque, Assurance, Services Financiers, Energie). Spécialisé dans le pilotage transverse de projets structurants impliquant infrastructures, Network, Digital Workplace - M365, Cloud AWS, AZURE privé, Hybride, sécurité et partenaires externes, Réversibilité, M&A, Offshoring (Inde, Maroc, Égypte).

J'interviens dans des contextes à forte visibilité nécessitant gouvernance structurée, coordination multi acteurs et multi domaines (réseau, sécurité, cloud, workplace, datacenter), pilotage budgétaire et gestion des risques. Habitué aux environnements offshores et aux organisations matricielles internationales, avec une forte capacité à structurer, sécuriser et accompagner des transformations impliquant infogérants et équipes distantes. Je suis en capacité de travailler de manière collaborative aussi bien avec des équipes locales qu'offshore ou avec des prestataires externes ainsi que de structurer ces équipes afin de les rendre plus efficaces. Délivrer Toujours On Time On Budget On Scope On Quality with minimum impacts and always keeping in mind the customer Satisfaction. Je serai certifié PMP en juillet 2026. J'utilise la méthodologie PMP et agile@scale.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Bâle (up to 50km)

Experience

  • AXA GO
    Program manager "Cluster
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2023 - December 2025 (2 years and 6 months)
    Paris, France
    -Program manager for the complex IT4IT transformation
    Migration of an internal flow transfer UDM platform hosted on the Core IT to the SAAS vendor solution: Stonebranch UAC > Gain of the project is the Exit core IT. 2500 MDs

    Key Responsibilities:
    Business Case & Financial Management
    • Build and assess the Business Case and refine the financial model for South Europe
    • Consolidate inputs from multiple technical and regional teams
    • Provide financial forecasts, ROI analysis, and scenario modeling
    • Align Business Case deliverables with AXA Group financial governance and decision gates

    Feasibility Study & RFP Preparation
    • Lead the feasibility analysis for the UDM Platform migration to SAAS
    • Frame and prepare the RFP documentation in coordination with Procurement and the SAAS vendor
    • Identify local/regional constraints, operational readiness, and technical dependencies
    • Ensure alignment between technical strategy, sourcing approach, and financial expectations

    Program Leadership & Cross-Team Coordination
    • Collect, consolidate, and structure information from various teams across AXA GO departments
    • Drive collaboration in a complex matrix environment with multiple responsibilities
    • Track and report progress on feasibility, RFP, and implementation phases
    • Ensure delivery against timeline, scope, budget, and quality expectations

    Risk Management & Governance
    • Maintain a structured risk log and mitigation plan
    • Manage decision points through AXA GO’s gating process
    • Prepare and facilitate governance bodies and strategic committees
    • Deliver executive-ready reporting with clear, concise, and impactful content

    Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement
    • Service Communication frequently with technical teams, regional IT, finance, and executives (from AXA GO and AXA entities)
    • Support impacted teams in understanding the target operating model
    • Drive buy-in and reduce resistance by clarifying benefits and constraints
  • Worldline
    Program manager Zscaler M&A
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2022 - June 2023 (1 year and 5 months)
    Paris, France
    • - Program manager for the transformation of Legacy infrastructure to Zscaler for Worldline worldwide – APAC, EMEA, North America, LATAM M&A Carve-Out.
    • - As part of Worldline's acquisition of Ingenico subsidiaries, alignment of these entities to Worldline standards for Zscaler: deployment of the ZPA infrastructure by local datacenter teams and support for transforming laptops into DWS stations (Digital Workplace Station = Trusted Device).
    • - Ensuring that all group users can securely connect to the corporate network from a trusted laptop and an internet connection, from anywhere in the world.
    • - Implementation of processes based on a RACI model (Roles and Responsibilities per acquired subsidiary).
    • - Development of the projected budget (hardware, man-days, licenses).
    • - Delivery of implementation processes within the tools post-deployment.
    • - Coordination of business and technical teams in a multicultural, worldwide environment. Ability to adapt communication at all levels and demonstrate empathy within complex organizations.
    • - Delivery of the Trusted Device project, enabling offshore service providers to access limited resources — i.e., ZPA (Zero Trust Network – Zscaler) application segments — via trusted laptops (certificate, Azure AD group).
    • - Implementation of SIPA rules (Source IP Anchoring = whitelisting).
    • - Leadership of the service restriction program, followed by decommissioning of Legacy Proxies / VPNs in favor of Zscaler technology (ZPA / ZIA).
    • - Weekly reporting, organization and facilitation of steering committees.
    • - Documentation production and use of collaborative tools.
  • AXA GO
    Program manager
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2020 - December 2022 (2 years and 11 months)
    Paris, France
    - Program manager for the transformation of core IT infrastructure toward private and public cloud for the subsidiaries' critical applications.
    -Supervision and direct management of three project managers for one subsidiary: project allocation, budget monitoring, ensuring risks are escalated, and ensuring that deliverable dates agreed with the client are met.
    -Organization of the site-to-site IPSEC Migration project as part of the compliance initiative for VPN tunnels between AXA entities and their partners. Objective: compliance with ISO 27001. Direct management of three network/security engineers.
    -Steering of the RFP process for the renewal of the target Check Point infrastructure and deployment of the selected solution.
    -Project to replace four Check Point management servers for all group entity firewalls, from hardware procurement to lab testing and datacenter deployment, followed by migration of firewall rules from the old infrastructure to the new one.
    -Management of the obsolescence program through the W2008-to-2016 refresh (SBC) and W7-to-W10 upgrades for VDI.
    -Financial analysis / budgeting and capacity planning to procure datacenter hardware, mainly Nutanix and ESX.
    -Proposal of scenarii to achieve man-day savings while considering risks and maintaining migration progress.
    -Management of project managers, technical experts, and architects.
    -Interface with subsidiary account managers.
    -Organization and facilitation of steering committees.

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Education

  • Postgraduated Specialized Diploma (DESS) : Telecommunication
    LILLE1 University
    2001
    Postgraduated Specialized Diploma (DESS)
  • Master's Degree in Physics
    UVSQ Versailles University
    2000
    Master's Degree in Physics

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