Difa Niculescu

Head of IT at Tandem

Difa Niculescu is currently the Head of IT at Tandem. Prior to this, they were the IT Director at Tandem Bank from November 2016 to November 2020. Difa was responsible for modernising the technology platforms with a focus on managing cost, optimising team performance and driving continuous improvement. Difa was also responsible for the Platform/Devops engineering teams and the Service Management function who maintain and enhance all the bank's live services.

Before Tandem Bank, Difa was the Head of IT Operations - Specialist Holiday Group at TUI from August 2013 to November 2016. Difa was responsible for leading the operational IT teams in delivering the objectives set out in the IT strategy to enable Specialist Holiday Group (SHG) to meet its 5 year plans. This entailed unifying the service offering to meet and exceed business demand from a team of 50+ staff (Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, Service Desk, Overseas & MI) supporting 2500 staff in offices in 12 countries across multiple transactional web platforms (Crystal Ski, Hayes & Jarvis, Sovereign, Moorings, Sunsail and Le Boat), call centre and business productivity applications.

Difa Niculescu has a MSc BIT from Kingston University, and Roosevelt High School South Africa. They also have certification from Scrum Alliance in Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), APMG International in COBIT Foundation, and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in ITIL Operational Support and Analysis (ITIL-OSA) and ITIL Service Strategy (ITIL-SS).

Some of their coworkers include Kamil Matynia - Solutions Architect, Mladen Despotovic - Lead Mobile Engineer, and Chris Ashe - Head of Engineering. Their manager is Paul Clark, CTO.

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  • Head of IT

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