Dionysios Kostoulas
About Dionysios Kostoulas
Dionysios Kostoulas serves as the Global Practice Lead for Business Solution Analysis in Financial Crime Compliance Solutions at Swift, where he has worked since 2019. He has extensive experience in data architecture and compliance solutions, with a background in various engineering and analytical roles across multiple organizations.
Work at Swift
Dionysios Kostoulas has been serving as the Global Practice Lead for Business Solution Analysis in Financial Crime Compliance Solutions at Swift since 2019. In this role, he focuses on developing digital solutions that meet business needs related to financial crime compliance. He has played a significant role in exploring data enablement use cases, which involve building information and data architectures that support advanced real-time analytics. Prior to his current position, he held various roles at Swift, including Strategic Architecture Lead Analyst and Enterprise Architecture Lead Analyst, contributing to the organization's strategic initiatives.
Education and Expertise
Dionysios Kostoulas holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he studied from 2003 to 2005. He also earned a Diploma of Engineering in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, completing his studies from 1997 to 2002. His expertise encompasses a variety of methodologies and frameworks, including TOGAF, BABOK, BIZBOK, UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, Agile/Scrum, OKR-BOK, Prince2, and ITIL, which he applies in his professional roles.
Background
Before joining Swift, Dionysios Kostoulas gained diverse experience in the technology and engineering sectors. He served as a Telecommunications Engineer in the Hellenic Air Force from 2005 to 2006. He worked at Archetypon as a Software Quality Engineer in 2003 and held the position of Senior Systems Analyst / Domain Architect at Netcompany-Intrasoft from 2006 to 2011. Additionally, he was an Enterprise Architect at Wolters Kluwer from 2011 to 2012, where he contributed to enterprise-level architecture initiatives.
Achievements
In his current role at Swift, Dionysios Kostoulas leads a global practice group focused on financial crime compliance solutions. He is instrumental in driving cultural and employee experience changes within the organization. His work involves designing end-to-end data solutions that aim to unlock valuable business insights and enhance the management of customer operational risks. His contributions have helped shape the strategic direction of financial crime compliance initiatives at Swift.