Summary
Walrand Baquet is an enterprise architecture and IT governance leader with over 20 years of hands-on IT experience and a decade in senior strategic roles, currently heading Group Enterprise Architecture at Saint‑Gobain. He builds global architecture functions and operating models that reduce complexity and drive cloud and product-oriented transformation, having led large programs (including a €100M platform and multi‑hundred‑app rationalizations). Comfortable at the intersection of business and technology, he shapes CIO/board-level strategy while running 120‑person global teams and platforms for DevOps, integration and ITSM. His career spans multinational transformations from Japan to the Americas, blending early web and middleware engineering roots with modern cloud-native, data and AI initiatives. Notably, he architected a global EA framework adopted across regions and founded a Cloud Adoption Office to convert regional pilots into measurable group value.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Computer science, Engineer, Computer science at ISEN Lille (Institut Supérieur d'Electronique du Nord)
English, French, German, Arabic, Japanese