Dr. Marcel Schlatter

IT Architect

IBM Distinguished Engineer, and Chief Architect in the solutioning and engagement, as well as in the transition and transformation phases of a large outsourcing deal in the insurance industry, involving data centre consolidation and application migration to a newly designed and built on-premise cloud infrastructure that is globally distributed across 5 strategic client data centres.

In 2006 Marcel was appointed to the position of an IBM Distinguished Engineer, which is an IBM Technical Executive position. In that capacity Marcel is a member of a largely self-governing ecosystem of interdisciplinary IBM thought leaders, chartered to help clients rethinking the basic building blocks of their business, questioning their assumptions about how to define, assemble, manage and grow their companies, to make them keystones in complex value chains.

IBM Distinguished Engineer with a global leadership role in Delivery Technology & Engineering, providing direction to and driving joint work of IBM Research, and IBM Product and Services Lines of Business to design and implement a repeatable method and process for the rapid migration of legacy workloads to Shared or Private Clouds.

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Architect and IT Delivery Design Authority Leader, overseeing the technical health of outsourcing bids and accounts in Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East, leading reviews of troubled accounts, and nurturing them back to a stable financial and technical position.

IBM Global Technology Services, South Africa

Set the right direction and organization in an EU project in Bulgaria, involving Legacy-to-SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Transformation. Periodic reviews of project technical health.

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enablement of a client in the transportation industry in the UAE who required 1) a governance framework to provide financial transparency, business / IT alignment, and process control, and 2) a reference architecture and standards and guidelines for the critical processes in all phases of the SOA Lifecycle, a roadmap with milestones, and key initiatives. Created and agreed Statement of Work with the client.

Leading program to improve software engineering capabilities and to raise software development maturity level of a large bank. Introducing and enforcing solid systems engineering methodologies, and a systematic method and process for architecture and design documentation across all application development projects, and covering the complete application development and maintenance life-cycle.

SOA solution architecture of a new Order Management system for a large Telco in Germany. Introduced the concept of a service bus, designed to implement a loose coupling between individual systems and components, thereby meeting the flexibility requirements of the dynamic business environment in which the client was competing. The concept of a service bus, which was soon after widely accepted as state-of-the-art, was in 2003 new and innovative.

Lead architect for the Basel II program of a large bank, involving major changes to corporate data infrastructure, data management, and analysis capabilities.

Lead solution architecture of a new online banking platform for a large bank.

Requirements analysis and solution design for improved application development efficiency, application portfolio management, and server consolidation in a large bank.

Solution architecture for a new insurance product platform, and for a new car insurance solution.

Enterprise architecture framework to support project and application architecture decisions of a logistics company.

Lead architect, new solution based on innovative application architecture with loosely coupled application components.

Business requirements specification and design of component-based application architecture with client-facing and manufacturing business units in a large international insurance and financial services company.

Design and build new real-time system. High-performance straight-through transaction processing system exploiting massively parallel processes, based on an innovative message-based solution combined with an Asynchronous Process Control System, reducing delays between the time when business events occur, and the time when affected accounts are updated. Elements of the asynchronous process control design were successfully reused to keeping data in legacy and in new systems consistent and in sync.

Application architecture for a large bank, based on asynchronous decoupling of components and applications.

Ring Systems for Digital Communication

Electrical Engineering