Stavros Vougioukas
Director Engineering Delivery
Salzburg
Summary
Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Director of Engineering Delivery
Roche
8 2024 - Current
- Lead a large Engineering Delivery team, driving key product launches (e.g., CGM) and ensuring smooth transitions during organizational changes.
- Developed standardized Ways of Working (WoW) to enhance collaboration across engineering, product management, and other teams.
- Defined team and individual goals to promote growth, engagement, and alignment with organizational success.
- Positioned the team as a strategic partner for process improvements and cross-functional alignment.
- Oversaw team expansion, integrating expertise across Remote Patient Monitoring, MySugr, and Accucheck to ensure scalability and strategic coverage.
- Improved RPM solution stability, planning, and communication, preparing critical roles for future success.
- Championed career development initiatives, fostering morale, retention, and long-term growth.
- Secured resources and budgets for high-priority areas like Regulatory and HFE interactions, ensuring organizational alignment.
Global Head of Digital Agility Center
Roche
02.2023 - 08.2024
- Leading a dynamic team of 25 professionals, comprising Agile Coaches and Release Train Engineers (RTEs), in the implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) within Roche
- Focusing on the organization's SAFe transformation strategy, including tailoring SAFe practices to meet the specific needs of the company
- Ensuring alignment of the team with the company's mission, values, and strategic goals within the SAFe context
- Overseeing the planning, execution, and successful delivery of Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to achieve timely and high-quality product releases while optimizing delivery processes within the SAFe framework
- Providing strategic guidance and support to Agile Coaches and RTEs to enhance SAFe knowledge and practices throughout the organization
- Identifying training needs and supervising the development of training programs for employees at all levels, aligning them with SAFe principles and guidelines
- Established and monitored key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the impact of the organization's performance, regularly reporting progress and improvements to executive leadership
- Drive cultural change within the SAFe framework, ensuring open communication channels and working towards to SAFe adoption, adapting strategies as needed
Head of Digital Program Management
Red Bull
08.2019 - 02.2023
- Lead the Global Portfolio of Red Bull’s Digital Platforms Department
- The portfolio consists of products & projects in the areas of the Web Platform, Analytics, Consumer Data Management, B2B Applications, Operations Support, AR Apps, RBTV Apps, Servus TV App, Voice, etc
- Created processes and ways of working which have been successfully established and worked from teams in the USA & Austria
- E.g., product pages, status, regular comments to showcase their products progress, affected systems and apps, start & end dates, efforts, dependencies, reports etc
- Prioritize and align with Heads about our Roadmap priorities, dependencies, conflicts, and any potential risks
- Product and Development Managers align with my team about their topic’s status, dates, next steps, and conflicts on a regular basis
- Manage the Project Management team and sync about their project challenges, deliverables, blockers, resources etc
Senior Project Manager
Red Bull
09.2017 - 08.2019
- Streamline with smartsheet and communicate milestones, tasks, dependencies, risks, issues with different stakeholders for all the engineering and service management projects
- Lead and Manage the Applications Support team (7 resources) and being the key contact person for all high and detailed level information related to Applications Support (redbull.com, back-end, b2b services, analytics etc) and its stakeholders
- Define the strategy of the service management in Digital Platforms and execute a clear program roadmap
- The go-to person responsible for projects rollout, milestone planning and coordination for critical projects of the Digital Platforms department
- Communicating within and beyond the project team and reporting project progress to sponsor and steering
- Define and manage the service strategy, service design, service transition, service operation and the continual service improvement for all the service management work-streams of the Digital Platforms department
Delivery Manager
Red Bull
01.2016 - 09.2017
- Responsible for delivery of projects and products across different departments, particularly using Agile Methodologies
- (Scrum & Kanban)
- For Scrum approached projects, managing as a Scrum Master the sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective by using the appropriate tools i.e
- Ideaboardz , planitpoker, Jira etc
- Create detailed requirements/stories which can be developed and estimated by the development teams in Jira
- Delivering projects that are crucial for the organization and are aligned with the strategic plan to its program or portfolio projects
- Making sure that all aims and quality standards of the project are met
- Managing expert team sessions with engineering leaders and product managers in order to deep dive into stories, bugs or improvements from the End2End standpoint
- Establish and maintain milestone planning, effort estimation, milestone progress and status meeting with core stakeholders
Project Management Officer
Accenture
03.2015 - 01.2016
- Set-up and operate a Program Management Office
- Establishment of the governance model
- (roles & responsibilities, KPIs, monitoring processes)
- Define the high-level master plan broken down in phases of SDLC (Waterfall model) including priorities and milestones
- Tracking of the discrete projects and overall progress in terms of time, budget and quality
- Resolution of conflicts between projects/participating parties
- Management of risks and issues
- Support individual project managers
- Create SharePoint lists and tools
- Manage meetings, track actions, follow up and send closure of actions
- Identification of interdependencies between projects
Business & System Integration Consulting
Accenture
08.2014 - 03.2015
- Ensure a core global blueprint for commissioning for the different OpCos according to the remit of finance operations requirements
- Accelerate the design of commissioning solutions in new countries through the reuse of the designed capabilities and technical architectures
- Subject Matter Expert in Business Object Reports
- (Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence tool)
- Expert in the functionalities of Callidus Commissioning System
- Presenting to the client the core capabilities of the system according to their requirements in all workshops around Europe
- (i.e
- Milan, Budapest, Dusseldorf, London, Madrid etc.)
- Drive the adoption of common Commissioning operations based on common Tool (Callidus)
- Design the Mock-ups of CBM reports according to the user business requirements and the available functionalities of the system
- Design the Architecture Solution of Reporting
- Designing and discussing the core functionalities of the ETL Informatica
Business & System Integration Consulting
Accenture
11.2013 - 08.2014
- Attending meetings to gather/interview and define the business requirements
- Preparing high data analysis and afterward a more detailed analysis
- Attending meetings to define the prioritization of the enhancements
- Preparing excel with all needed details of issues & enhancements
- (description, owner, date, comments etc.)
- Preparing detailed scripts for the UAT (User Acceptance Test)
- All the scripts and other data such as dates and charts were included in excel file
- Support the users in the SIT and UAT period
- Creating packages and procedures in PL/SQL in the toad environment
- (Oracle)
- Preparing and running Regression Testing
Information Technology Specialist
AT&T
09.2011 - 09.2012
- Work with cross-functional teams on specific issues of the Unified Application
- Review and interpret technical documentation and vendor specifications for inclusion/adaptation into database templates
- Gathering and analyzing business problems, translating requirements into highly specified project briefs
- Defining business and/or technical requirements and preparing detailed plans and schedules
- Manage multiple simultaneous troubles with fault management maintenance support as the primary focus along with new service turn-ups and provisioning support responsibilities
- Supporting the users regarding system functionalities
Education
MSc - Management
University of Surrey
Surrey 01.2009 - 01.2011
BSc - Technology Management
University of Macedonia
Greece 01.2005 - 01.2009
Skills
Change Management
Leadership
Strategic Planning
Stakeholder Management
Resource Management
Team Management
Customer engagement
Project management
Certification
SAFe - Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
Timeline
Global Head of Digital Agility Center
Roche
02.2023 - 08.2024
Head of Digital Program Management
Red Bull
08.2019 - 02.2023
Senior Project Manager
Red Bull
09.2017 - 08.2019
Delivery Manager
Red Bull
01.2016 - 09.2017
Project Management Officer
Accenture
03.2015 - 01.2016
Business & System Integration Consulting
Accenture
08.2014 - 03.2015
Business & System Integration Consulting
Accenture
11.2013 - 08.2014
Information Technology Specialist
AT&T
09.2011 - 09.2012
MSc - Management
University of Surrey
01.2009 - 01.2011
BSc - Technology Management
University of Macedonia
01.2005 - 01.2009
Director of Engineering Delivery
Roche
8 2024 - Current
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