Chief Technology Officer

• Mar 2022 - Present

Engineering Manager

• Oct 2020 - Jan 2022

Working as engineering manager for PagoNxt Consumer (formerly Santander Digital), one of the largest fintech in the world, part of Santander Group, reporting to the CTO of the business unit. Building cloud-native applications with an innovative approach, and customer experience focus, in the Open Banking, BNPL and P2P payments spaces.Responsibilities include:- Manage plans, budget and resources- Provide project management and technical leadership.- Develop, manage and prepare the engineering team- Ultimate responsible for the project architecture, QA, operations, operative model, and IT service delivery model.- Support legal, compliance, fincrime and customer support teams. Draft and review legal contracts, transpose and apply regulations to IT teams, etc.- Emerging products & Innovation: responsible for the tech aspects of the innovation pipeline.- Alignment with other group areas (Global CTO, CISO, Cloud, etc)Use cases implemented include:- Open Banking and groups and split expenses (UOwe - https://uowe.io) : Regulated under AISP and PISP licenses by FCA.- Social P2P Bueno: P2P and Digital Wallet application.

Engineering manager / Santander Digital

• Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

Working for Santander Digital, leading the projects e-commerce lending (BNPL) and the observability platform.

Enterprise architect / Head of Data Architecture

• Dec 2017 - Nov 2019

Leading the Data Architecture team within Digital Architecture, Santander Global Tech, reporting to Global CTO and Global CDO. Being the design authority within the data domain, the main goal is to define the group's technological strategy and data architectures, focusing on big data, analytics and AI, data science, storage and virtualisation, and data management.Responsibilities include:- Establish relationships with businesses, understand their needs and promote alignment between business strategy and technology strategy.- Collaborate with other architects in the area and other business units.- Develop and promote common reference architectures across the group based on agreed standards and architectural frameworks.- Shaping and communicating the architectural vision and roadmap.- Keep up-to-date with new architectural approaches, emerging technologies and established vendors offerings.- Building and providing technical leadership to a diverse team of highly skilled architects, including internals and contractors.- Managing budgets, prioritising projects and allocating resources.Led and participated as an architect in transformational projects in the Santander Headquarters, including critical areas like capital management, risk, treasury, and regulatory compliance.

Big Data Programme engineering manager

• Jan 2017 - Oct 2017

Programme engineering manager in the big data department of Santander UK, giving support to the development teams, totalling more than 120 people and 15 teams, focusing on the following functions:- Project reception and design: requirements gathering, solution architecture, and handover to the development team.- Cloudera Hadoop: platform architecture definition. Lead the evolution and improvement of the platform and become the point of contact between engineering and infrastructure teams.- Engineering manager: promote best practices, including continuous integration and continuous delivery and data architecture. Applied design and architectural patterns for highly scalable systems processing vast amounts of data.- Led proofs of concepts and proofs of technology, both internal and external and assisted and managed relationships with product vendors in the Big Data landscape.Participated in more than 30 projects, especially in the following areas:MI and reporting: batch processes in the data lake, generating a report or MicroStrategy dashboard.Digital transformation: API and microservices architectures, focusing on replacing legacy Mainframe systems.NRT (Near Real-Time): CDC data from Mainframe using AbInitio and Kafka streaming processing.Regulatory projects: FSCS, Open Banking, PSD2 and more.GDPR: Selection, obscuring, portability, etc.

Technology consultant

• Oct 2016 - Oct 2017

Technology consultant, focused on big data and financial services (banking and insurance). Projects in AXA and Isban UK.Participated in the entire lifecycle of the consulting engagement, from proposal to delivery. Technology consultant, focused on big data and financial services (banking and insurance). Projects in AXA and Isban UK.Participated in the entire lifecycle of the consulting engagement, from proposal to delivery.

Big data programme architect / Hadoop SME

• Mar 2015 - Sep 2016

Principal architect in a big data programme to create a Data Analytics marketing platform for an international bank. Working with a team split among Chennai, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.Built a team of individual contributors in Chennai and Kuala Lumpur. Defined methodologies, promoted best practices and created team culture.Created a scalable Data Lake to maximise the value of data through the three basic concepts of Big Data: variety, volume and velocity. Created a Data Mart to enable Data Mining by the business analyst CoE team based in Bangalore (India). Designed and integrated real-time processing applications to promote individual targeted geolocated marketing actions. Integrated third-party applications to consume data from the Data Mart and capture the output for further analysis.Led in the analysis and development of logical and physical data models. Understand and communicate how data models can support, interact and integrate with other information systems. Communicating to the stakeholders. Identify and mitigate risks associated with the architecture. Led the system analysis to detect deficiencies and propose solutions for improvement, including architectural and design patterns. Conducted the study of new technologies, frameworks and market trends and how can they impact the current systems. Manage and mentor members of the development team.Technologies used in the project include:Hadoop ecosystem applications on Hortonworks Data Platform.Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) for monitoring and log visualisation.

Data strategy consultant

• Jan 2014 - Feb 2015

Leaded several projects of Hadoop and capital markets related applications, for both retail trading and institutional, working with teams in Spain and India, as a freelance consultant. Helped clients to define the data strategy and maximize the data value. Leaded several projects of Hadoop and capital markets related applications, for both retail trading and institutional, working with teams in Spain and India, as a freelance consultant. Helped clients to define the data strategy and maximize the data value.

Systems analyst / Team lead (J2EE and UML)

• May 2012 - Dec 2013

Member of Product Engineering team of one of the Accenture core banking products, in a technical leadership role. International project, working with an offshore development centre in Manila (Philippines).The functions included interpreting functional requirements to design the technical solution and transmit to the development team. Problem solving. Monitor and support of the development lifecycle to ensure product quality. Collaborate with the offshore team to develop the solution. Member of Product Engineering team of one of the Accenture core banking products, in a technical leadership role. International project, working with an offshore development centre in Manila (Philippines).The functions included interpreting functional requirements to design the technical solution and transmit to the development team. Problem solving. Monitor and support of the development lifecycle to ensure product quality. Collaborate with the offshore team to develop the solution.

J2EE and Oracle-SQL Analist-Programmer

• Oct 2011 - May 2012

Technical lead on the new developments team, as technical lead. Designed the technical solution, interpreted functional requirements and supported and monitored the development across the entire lifecycle. Technical lead on the new developments team, as technical lead. Designed the technical solution, interpreted functional requirements and supported and monitored the development across the entire lifecycle.

Analyst Developer

• Oct 2009 - Sep 2011

Responsible for the development team. Developed Capital Markets related applications. The functions included requirements gatherings, technical design and development, and monitoring development team. Responsible for the development team. Developed Capital Markets related applications. The functions included requirements gatherings, technical design and development, and monitoring development team.