Associate Director of Solution Architecture at Novartis, with a structured and analytical approach to designing secure, compliant digital ecosystems in regulated environments. Background in financial services and technology, with prior experience at BBVA and IBM leading enterprise architecture, cloud transformation, and security and privacy governance.
Methodical, rational, and governance-driven, with an empathetic, relationship-focused leadership style that enables effective collaboration across business, legal, privacy, security, and technology teams.
Responsible for designing and governing Digital Trust architectures that enable secure, compliant, and trusted digital interactions across Novartis’ commercial and digital platforms.
- Lead the architecture and design of Digital Trust solutions supporting privacy, security, identity, consent, and data protection across customer-facing ecosystems.
- Define and evolve solution architectures, patterns, principles, and standards to ensure compliant execution of sales and marketing strategies in regulated environments.
- Partner closely with commercial, legal, privacy, security, data, and IT teams to translate regulatory and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Architect and govern platforms for Consent & Preference Management, Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), API security, and secure integrations.
- Ensure alignment with global privacy and security regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and internal governance frameworks.
- Provide architecture governance and oversight across internal and vendor-led initiatives, ensuring solutions are implemented according to approved designs.
- Support Agile product teams, guiding technical decision-making while balancing innovation, risk mitigation, and compliance.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, strengthening customer trust, data protection, and Novartis’ digital reputation.
- Craft and lead: design and develop of enterprise large-scale software ecosystems
- Architect and innovate: experience in devising cloud ready solutions; proven experience in
migrating/transitioning from on-prem and/or legacy solutions to the cloud/next gen technologies
- Strategic influence: Prone to collaborate hands-on across multiple, internal, and external development
teams / integration partners and business stakeholders
- Experience in the software development lifecycle and in-depth understanding of (enterprise) software
engineering practices and processes (e.g., quality assurance practices, DevOps, architecture reviews)
- Internship as part of my Master Degree in Artificial Intelligence (combined with a full time job in BBVA).
- Delivered a solution based on AWS Cloud Architecture for customer calls sentiment analysis using NLP
(Amazon Comprehend, S3, Lambda, Python).
- Acted as customer-facing focal point for IT security and technology compliance (ISO2700x, GDPR...).
- Identified and managed technological risks, following communication with clients for its resolution.
- Participated in the Internal Audit Project Office.
- Constructed and simulated formal models of modern processors, such as those based on RISC-V
architecture.
- Created and debugged the Instruction Set Architecture, based on internal programming language.
- Communication (intensive training 1 to 1 with Marta Pinillos)
- Hard-working, trustworthy, collaborative
- Stakeholder relationship, team player
- Continuous learning
- Presentation skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Founding member of intor.ai (start up in the Artificial Intelligence ecosystem)
- Team member of desrumbados.com (travel blog for custom itineraries)
- Professor in Artificial Intelligence Master (Cloud Computing)
- Founded a financial education community (finanzasgraficas.com)
- Continuous volunteering work: cibervoluntarios and Junior Achievement.
- Participated in a Hackaton to help combat COVID-19
- Sports: kayaking, surfing, skiing, hiking and functional training
- Traveling through SE Asia
- Historic novels
- Learning new languages and cultures