Mettle

Leadership and collaboration

Approach

Clear roles and decisions on record for a team that succeeds together.

  1. Room to decideAt Nord Fondkommission Joakim promoted one engineer to lead the offshore delivery partners. At Bricknode Joakim led the move of the database to MongoDB Atlas, and brought in the architect who carried it out.Nord Fondkommission and Bricknode, 2020–2022
  2. Translate between the rolesMettle translates between developers, product, management and suppliers. At BNP Paribas Joakim took the e-archive through the full governance of the BNP Paribas group, from the investment committee to the IT validation committees.BNP Paribas Personal Finance Nordic, 2022–2026
  3. Decisions and risks in writingMettle runs the plan and keeps decisions and risks in writing. At a Swedish financial firm Joakim built the delivery schedule from the dependencies and a capacity model, and put the resource need to the steering group for decision.A Swedish financial firm, 2026

Where Joakim has done it

  • Moved the organisation from separate engineering and SRE teams to DevSecOps: one backlog, shared sessions, no silos.Bricknode, 2021–2022
  • Led the move of the database from an on-premises MongoDB, patched for transaction support, to MongoDB Atlas, carried out by the architect I brought in: new environments started there, and older ones moved over in turn.Bricknode, 2021–2022
  • Recruited and led a local team of five working DevSecOps (three engineers, a UX designer and a data engineer), and promoted one engineer to lead the offshore delivery partners.Nord Fondkommission, 2020–2021
  • Moved the company to home working when Covid hit, and work carried on as before: support ran over Teams, and I prepared each new computer and sent it out by courier.Nord Fondkommission, 2020–2021
  • Led the steering committees for three projects, 2023 to 2026, two at a time for most of that period, and the supplier steering committees alongside them: prepared and presented the reports on progress, deliverables, risks and costs, facilitated the decisions, and kept the minutes.BNP Paribas Personal Finance Nordic