Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction on the Architecture, design, development (SDLC), security, risk, infrastructure, testing, deployment, and technology roadmaps of strategic projects. Recommend solutions, influence, and coordinate new technical solution within the technology roadmap for the companies with in a highly regulated environment.Help companies in improving their technology capabilities and improve their internal processes with continuous improvement and utilizing best in class methodologies

Manage and Facilitate the information technology strategy inside Cencor, including the new Stock Exchange in Mexico (BIVA) and for the other companies within the financial Group.• Create IT structure and infrastructure to enable the launch of a new Stock Exchange. Attract, engage, retain, and nurture teams of outstanding engineers• Align projects with business units’ needs and ensure adherence to budget, schedule, functional, and quality requirements, either by internal development (full SDLC), outsourcing (vendor management) or acquiring off the shelf products (including SaaS) either on premise or cloud-based solutions (AWS and Azure)• Manage IT technical operations, data centers, systems, technology, and functions, creating and delivering policies and strategies to enable the business’ objectives and goals with delivery excellence• Transform the IT department into a unified and centralized shared service group.• Develop and maintain IT engineering and architecture for the group, ensuring consistency of application platforms and guidelines to improve resolution times and cost effectiveness. Creating API for microservices with availability, scalability, and reliability within the architecture.• Manage IT across all application platforms to ensure high level of availability and effectiveness of risk, security, and disaster recovery plans and coordinating with all stakeholders on their improvement programs• Design and maintain IT security framework to minimize exposure to risk• Created product architecture, vision, system, and technology roadmap for the companies in the Group.• Improved software architecture and development cycles for full stack with Cloud/AWS. Agile, PSP and DevOps methodologies.

• Develop and maintain IT engineering and architecture for the group, ensuring consistency of application platforms and guidelines to improve resolution times and cost effectiveness. Creating API for microservices with availability, scalability, and reliability within the architecture.• Manage IT across all application platforms to ensure high level of availability and effectiveness of risk, security, and disaster recovery plans and coordinating with all stakeholders on their improvement programs• Design and maintain IT security framework to minimize exposure to risk• Created product architecture, vision, system, and technology roadmap for the companies in the Group.• Improved software architecture and development cycles for full stack with Cloud/AWS. Agile, PSP and DevOps methodologies• Transform the IT department into a unified and centralized shared service group.

Facilitate the information technology strategy across nine companies inside the Mexican Stock Exchange Group. Control technology expenses; managing and maintaining an updated technology infrastructure. Manage IT operations in support of front office, back office, and real-time application infrastructure in two data centers, including the disaster recovery site.• Consolidate Software Engineering, Architecture, and development efforts to unify IT strategy for all companies with automation and operational excellence as priority.• Manage IT operations of all systems in the data centers, ensuring reliability, performance, and resiliency in primary and disaster recovery sites.• Oversee software project development across the entire SDLC. Align projects with business units’ needs and ensure adherence to budget, schedule, functional, and quality requirements.• Develop and maintain IT architecture for the group, ensuring consistency of application platforms and guidelines to improve resolution times and cost effectiveness.• Manage IT across all application platforms to ensure high level of availability and effectiveness of risk, cybersecurity and disaster recovery plans.• Deliver IT strategy and systems required to support the company’s objectives and goals• Design and maintain IT risk and security framework.

Led a geographically diverse team of developers and architects in designing, architecting, developing, building, and implementing large scale, distributed trading applications with high-availability, low-latency, and transaction-intensive attributes. Manage the solution architecture function groups for different business units. • Chief Architect for the software engineering, development and deployment of the Exchange’s Equities and Derivatives Central Trading Engine, using Java on Linux and InfiniBand, a multiyear project leading a team of professionals (architects, developers, testers, coaches and others). • Replaced legacy mainframe system; interfaced with trading members to manage change and adapt to new trading platform with no impact to external interfaces, enabling a more competitive trading environment. • Delivered standard interface (FIX) with low latency and high throughput, enabling exponential market growth. Finished on time and on budget.• Managed operations of front end and selected back-end applications, including underlying infrastructure.• Created technology roadmap for trading products, adapting to new technologies and features in FinTech.• Integrated systems including C, Java, SQL/Oracle, and microsoft .NET, running on Linux and Windows. • Led integration for brokerage firms with OMS suppliers, enabling market data and FIX routing from firms to the Exchange. • Developed continental platform for the Exchange, allowing interconnection of platforms from to create a multinational equity trading platform. • Automated the CI/CD and DevOps processes using different tools and languages (Jira, Jenkins, scripting with bash and python, puppet, nagios and others)• Recommended technologies and market structure for members and regulators to facilitate the modernization of the Mexican financial service industry.• Exchange Trading Engine Software Architecture and Development