Valentin Gutierrez Saez - Project Manager and Agency Industrial Director

Mohamed Elhouderi - Infrastructure Engineer

Cristina Botan - Anti-Finance Crime Analyst

Meet Cristina Botan, Anti-Finance Crime (AFC) Analyst at Sopra Steria Benelux. Cristina was born in Moldavia, lived in Slovakia, and moved to Luxembourg 4 years ago after applying at Sopra Steria Benelux via LinkedIn and getting a job as PMO. After 3 years, she switched jobs and became a deputy Security Manager on the SIS II project for eu-LISA. In June 2022, Cristina started a new challenge as an AFC Analyst. “When you look at my career within Sopra Steria, it is quite diverse, and I think that is what is good at Sopra Steria: you can try different things until you find what you like”.

Julien Colmonts - Security Architect

Meet Julien Colmonts, Security Architect for our Cybersecurity Agency. Julien joined our company 7 years ago after graduating. “I think I am still young, but I am one of the oldest one here, haha”. Julien met Sopra Steria during a job fair and was proposed a job in Cybersecurity within European Institutions.

Yann Perronnet - Project Manager

Meet Yann Perronnet, Project Manager on lease to DG TAXUD for Sopra Steria Benelux. Before starting at Sopra Steria, Yann was also working for this client at his previous employer. When they finished a contract with DG TAXUD, his previous employer didn’t have an interesting offer for Yann, so he decided to leave the company. In 2014, Yann got in touch with Sopra Steria Benelux after Sopra Steria just won a big project with DG TAXUD. Since Yann already had experience with this client, Sopra Steria proposed him to work on the newly won project.

Pauline Lachérade - Business Analyst/Consultant

Meet Pauline Lachérade, Business Analyst/Consultant at Sopra Steria Benelux and European Affairs student at Sciences Po Paris. Pauline wanted to work with European Institutions on European digital transformation projects and see European affairs from the point of view of the private sector, and that is why she was attracted to Sopra Steria Benelux. She first did a traineeship in the Homeland Security and Defense Business Unit in 2020, and an apprenticeship of 1 year in the Consulting department, before she was officially hired in October 2021.

Gilles Doyen - SAP Consultant

Meet Gilles Doyen, SAP consultant (ABAP developer) at Sopra Steria Benelux since January 2021. Gilles already knew the SAP team before joining because some of his friends are working there. When he saw Pierre Blauwart (Agency Director of SAP at Sopra Steria Benelux) needed someone to build a Security Department, he was sold.

Stéphane Dessy - Solution Architect

Meet Stéphane Dessy, Solution Architect at Sopra Steria Benelux. After graduating, Stéphane asked some of his friends who were working in IT if they had fun in their jobs and if they could work on interesting projects. None of them found both criteria in their jobs, except 1 friend who worked at Steria (before the merge with Sopra). That is why Stéphane chose to launch his career at Steria in October 2012. In his first mission he worked on a project for the Ministry of Finance as a Developer. In 2017, he left this customer as a Junior Architect.

Olivier Calzi - Infrastructure Engineer

Meet Olivier Calzi, Infrastructure Engineer at Sopra Steria Benelux since August 2019. Olivier found his way to Sopra Steria Benelux because he was part of the same boxing team as his team leader. During a sport session, they started discussing about Sopra Steria and an open job position and that is how Olivier was introduced to his current team and the management.