You're seeing this page as if you were . The main menu is still yours, though. Exit from immersion
Victor CetinicVC

Victor Cetinic

Solution Architect

€950/day
Zurich, CH
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Victor

Engineering Lead, Data Architect, and Technology Strategist with 20+ years of experience delivering complex data, cloud, and software platforms across energy, SaaS, telecommunications, and analytics industries. I help organisations transform legacy systems into scalable, modern architectures while balancing business outcomes, operational excellence, and engineering productivity. �
Professional CV Resume_20260311_183126_0000.pdf
My strengths span data architecture, cloud transformation, platform engineering, and technical leadership. I have led large-scale migrations to Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, and Google Cloud; established modern data platforms, governance frameworks, and self-service analytics capabilities; and built high-performing engineering teams responsible for critical business systems. �
Professional CV Resume_20260311_183126_0000.pdf
I bring value to projects by:
Defining pragmatic technology and data strategies aligned to business goals.
Architecting scalable cloud, data, and application platforms.
Modernising legacy environments to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
Establishing DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and platform engineering practices.
Implementing data governance, cataloguing, quality monitoring, and compliance frameworks.
Leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and improving delivery effectiveness.
Bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams to reduce complexity and accelerate outcomes.
Whether a project requires hands-on architecture, technical leadership, cloud migration, data platform design, engineering transformation, or strategic guidance, I provide a combination of deep technical expertise and practical execution experience that helps organisations deliver sustainable, measurable results.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Zurich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • HR Saas
    Engineering Lead
    January 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)
    I managed the Engineering group consisting of 12 developers and 10 QA members, 4 Support Engineers and Data Analyst. Primarily responsible for the 'Run' side of Engineering handling security, architecture, and operations. Lead Architect for the move to Google Cloud including Kuberenetes and BigQuery adoption

    Managed team members setting development goals, personal challenges and resource planning Lead Architect for Infrastructure and Data Warehousing Pioneered Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and HelmChart Migrated from VPS Infrastructure to entirely Google Cloud Established CI/CD framework to build/test/deploy code via standardised GitHub Actions Transient feature environments (lifecycle to PRs) Multi-Environment Deployments (Staging, Hotfix PreProd) Multi-Region Production workflows and approval Data Warehouse in Google BigQuery using DataForm for ELT processes Raw → EDW → Data Marts Data Catalog with Taxonomies to apply PII Making policies suited for HR Initiatied many Development Experience Improvements to aimed at developer productivity Standardised Docker container for consistent development tooling Development context switching for docker (feature vs support) Established Jira Service Management for Effective SL2 → SL3
    Data Engineer DevOps Python Cloud Engineer artificial intelligence
  • Alpiq AG,
    Data Architect
    June 2023 - December 2023 (6 months)
    Switzerland
    Took Data Architecture position to oversee data initiatives across the Organisation. Provided guidance and frameworks on data management and governance topics to help speed up developer efficiencies working with data.
    Data Engineer AI Automation Python Amazon Web Services
  • Alpiq AG,
    Lead Data Engineer
    July 2021 - May 2023 (1 year and 10 months)
    Switzerland
    Worked as Lead Data Engineer on the SAP Hanna to Snowflake Migration project. The project was started years earlier and was handed over to me oversee, reduce costs, improve performance and reliability. End of day process was critical for Energy company to make sure that effective trading decision could be made every day based on End-of-Day Process and was biggest project at the time. Reviewed Architecture of Legacy and Target Systems to understand complexity and scale of project Provided recommendations of process, tooling and resources changes Improved overnight performance of batch processing to meet SLA and avoid P1 incidents Remodelled 100TB+ tables for improved reporting that were not remodlled for Snowflake from SAP Hanna Challenged business excessive business requirements to reduce complexities that were not needed Co-developed with head of BI a data architecture to replace legacy systems at Alpiq resulting in a data architecture for the overall data strategy for Alpiq incollaboration with other technology experts.
    Java Python Big Data

Recommendations

Be the first to recommend Victor

Help this freelancer shine by sharing your experience working together.

These freelancer profiles also match your criteria

AgathaA

Agatha Frydrych

Backend Java Software Engineer

4.7

(3)

2

BaptisteB

Baptiste Duhen

Fullstack developer

4.6

(4)

5

AmedA

Amed Hamou

Senior Lead Developer

4

(2)

7

AudreyA

Audrey Champion

Web developer

4.3

(3)

4

Education

  • Diploma in Business
    Mt Eliza Business School
    Diploma in Business
  • Bachelor in Software Engineering
    RMIT University
    Bachelor in Software Engineering

Categories