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Irfan KarahocaIK

Irfan Karahoca

Senior Manager EMEA

£1,024/day
Bristol, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Irfan

Strategic leader and Solutions Architect with 25+ years of tenure in the IT industry shaping enterprise technology
across EMEA. Expert in translating complex business requirements into scalable, ROI-driven architectures.
Working at the intersection of data integration, ERP, BI, and AI-driven process automation and data intelligence.
A trusted C-suite advisor with a strong track record of winning and delivering high-value programmes, mentoring
delivery teams, and driving long-term customer success. Currently seeking a role that leverages these expertise
while deepening AI skills.
At Saison Technology I led pre-sales and delivery of data-intelligence and automation solutions across EMEA
running discovery, designing integration architectures, driving adoption, and managing post-sales teams.
Earlier, as Head of UI Architecture & BI at Kerridge, I owned delivery for a portion of a £50M transformation for
12,000 enterprise users, ensuring the solutions were designed around how people actually work, not just what
technology can do. I hold an Executive MBA alongside deep technical credentials (PRINCE2, CCNA, ITIL),
giving me the ability to move between the boardroom and the back-end team without losing anything in
translation.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Turkish

    Conversational

  • Greek

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Saison Technology International (HULFT)
    Senior Manager EMEA
    E-COMMERCE
    March 2020 - May 2026 (6 years and 2 months)
    London, United Kingdom
    Led enterprise deployment and pre-sales across EMEA for data-intelligence and managed file transfer products. Owned the full customer lifecycle — discovery, solution architecture, deployment, and post-sales success.
    – Ran structured discovery workshops to surface operational bottlenecks and translate vague pain into deployable integration architectures
    – Designed and delivered end-to-end data integration workflows for enterprise clients with complex, multi system environments – Led C-suite and technical presentations (RFP/RFI) across EMEA, adapting the narrative for CFO, IT, and operational audiences – Managed and mentored a team of 6 post-sales consultants across concurrent delivery programmes – Drove workflow adoption by designing solutions around actual user behaviour, reducing time-to-value for each deployment – Identified repeatable patterns across customer engagements and fed them back into product roadmap discussions
    Solution architecture Team management
  • Saison Technology International
    Solutions Architect EMEA
    DIGITAL AND IT
    July 2019 - February 2020 (7 months)
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    – Delivered technical pre-sales engagements for enterprise middleware and data integration products – Shaped product roadmap priorities by distilling field patterns from prospect and customer interactions
    –Partner with enterprise clients to understand complex data landscape challenges and architect tailored integration solutions.
    –Drive RFP/RFI responses, proof-of-concept engagements, and executive-level presentations to C-suite stakeholders.
    –Manage and mentor a team of consultants delivering post-sales implementation and support projects.
    –Collaborate with product management to relay market feedback and shape roadmap priorities.
    Solution architecture Strategic Partnerships Strategic Partnerships
  • Kerridge Commercial SystemsSep
    Head of UI Architecture & Business Intelligence
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2016 - November 2018 (2 years and 10 months)
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    Full ownership of the user interface stream within a £50M enterprise transformation for a 12,000-user Integrated Commercial Operations Network.
    – Led a team of 8 to deliver BI dashboards and KPI scorecards that changed how 12,000 users made operational decisions day-to-day – Designed workflows that surfaced role-relevant data in real time — ensuring adoption by making the system work the way people already thought – Navigated programme-level stakeholder complexity across executive, operational, and engineering audiences to keep delivery moving
    Product management Team management

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Education

  • CISCO CCNA Routing & Switching Certification
    City of Bristol College
    2014
    Certificate in Personal Coaching
  • Executive MBA
    UWE Bristol Business School
    Executive MBA

Certifications

  • PRINCE2 Practitioner
    CITIBASE Cabot Circus
    2013

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