Summary
Jean Denis is a seasoned enterprise architecture and innovation leader with 13+ years driving large-scale digital transformations across energy, telecom, automotive and mining sectors. As Director Enterprise Architecture & Innovation at Capgemini and former head of IT IoT Services Delivery at Rio Tinto, he blends pragmatic program delivery (Prince2, ITIL, SAFe) with value-driven cloud and application refoundation strategies. He excels at mobilizing global, multicultural teams to turn ideation into operating solutions—running innovation programs that progressed hundreds of ideas into funded proofs, prototypes and production apps. Skilled in M&A divestments, SAP migrations and cloud target operating models, he pairs technical depth with business model design and change leadership. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly built delivery organizations from the ground up across geographies, scaling teams while preserving customer focus and governance. Based in Grenoble, he combines engineering credentials with executive training (Grenoble EM, MIT design thinking) to translate complex IT roadmaps into measurable business value.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Professional Engineering Electricity Computed Simulation Automation Physics, Engineer’s Degree Professional Engineering Electricity Computed Simulation Automation Physics at ENSE3, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Ingénieur Electricien de Grenoble
Engineer’s Degree IMAG Institut Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble. Computer Science Mathematics, Engineer’s Degree IMAG Institut Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble. Computer Science Mathematics at Institut national polytechnique de grenoble, ENSIMAG
Master Executive Management of Technologies and Innovation Business Management and Innovation, Master Executive Management of Technologies and Innovation Business Management and Innovation at Grenoble Ecole de Management
The MIT approach to Design Thinking Business Design and Innovation, The MIT approach to Design Thinking Business Design and Innovation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
INPG ENSIMAG 1993, Graduated Major of GEM MS2 EXEC Business Innovation 2017, ENSE3 1992
english, toeic 940 (980 max), Spanish