Manuel López Bravo

Head of Architecture | Digital Channels Commercial

Spain

About

Experience

  • Head of Architecture | Digital Channels Commercial at Santander
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Responsibilities: - Defined and executed the solution architecture strategy for Digital Channels platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps, and regulatory requirements. - Led and mentored teams of solution architects, fostering architectural excellence, innovation, and engineering best practices across multiple initiatives. - Designed and governed scalable, secure, and resilient architectures supporting customer-facing and internal digital banking solutions. - Established architecture standards, reference architectures, and governance processes to ensure consistency across the technology landscape. - Defined cloud adoption strategies and modernization initiatives, driving the migration of legacy systems toward cloud-native architectures. - Led the design and implementation of microservices, event-driven, API-first, and domain-driven architectures. - Defined integration strategies across internal platforms, third-party services, and enterprise systems using APIs, messaging, and event streaming technologies. - Oversaw architecture reviews, technical risk assessments, and solution design approvals. - Ensured compliance with security, resilience, observability, and operational excellence requirements. - Promoted software quality, automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and engineering productivity initiatives. Knowledge: Event-Driven Architecture (EDA),API-First Design,Clean Architecture,Service Mesh Architecture,Sidecar Pattern,ECS, CloudFormation,Docker,Spring Boot,Spring Cloud,Python,Angular,CI/CD Pipelines

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    • Director - Software Development
      Feb 2024 - Jun 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Responsibilities: - Directed multiple software engineering teams responsible for the design, development, and operation of business-critical platforms and services. - Defined and executed the software engineering strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, product vision, and technology roadmaps. - Led the adoption and evolution of Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), including orchestrated and choreographed communication models across enterprise platforms. - Provided executive-level leadership for software architecture, technology selection, and third-party integrations, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term sustainability. - Established engineering governance, development standards, and best practices to improve software quality, delivery predictability, and operational excellence. - Oversaw the performance, stability, resilience, observability, and scalability of distributed systems supporting critical business functions. Knowledge: Architecture, AWS, Docker, AKS, ECS, Kinesis, Bamboo, Colas MQ, SQS,Harness,Spring Boot, Cloud, Python, , SQL, Bitbucket, Nexus, APIS, Linux , github, ECS, Dynamo, Arurora.

    • Software Manager
      Oct 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Responsibilities - Led the development and ownership of software services implementing Event-Driven Architectures (EDA), including both orchestrated and choreographed communication models. - Provided architectural leadership for technology stacks and third-party communication platforms, ensuring alignment with product strategy and business objectives. - Ensured product performance, stability, scalability, logging, observability, evolution, and error-handling capabilities across distributed systems. - Defined and maintained service architecture standards, best practices, and technical roadmaps. - Collaborated with product managers, engineering teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable and reliable solutions. - Designed and implemented integration patterns between internal platforms and third-party services using APIs, messaging systems, and event streams. Knowledge: Arquitectura de servicios, AWS, Docker, AKS, ECS, Kinesis, Bamboo, Colas MQ, SQS,Harness,Spring Boot, Cloud, Python, , SQL, Bitbucket, Nexus, APIS, Gestión de sistemas Linux .

  • Security & Cloud Architect at Telefónica Tech
    Apr 2022 - Oct 2022 · 7 mos

    Responsibilities - Defined and implemented secure and scalable microservices-based architectures, including both orchestrated and choreographed Event-Driven Architectures (EDA). - Established security standards, controls, and best practices for cloud-native and distributed systems. - Designed and implemented cloud security strategies, ensuring compliance, resilience, and protection of critical assets. - Defined, implemented, and optimized CI/CD pipelines to enable automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes. - Defined software architecture standards and development guidelines based on MVC (Model-View-Controller) principles and SOLID design principles. Knowledge: certificate management,Ansiable, machine Learning, AWS, Azure, Docker, AKS, EKS, OpenShift, kafta, queue MQ, Spring Boot, Cloud, Java, Python, , SQL, Jenkis, GitHub Actions, Azure devops, Nexus,Harbor, Api Gee, Mulesoft, Api Connect,Gestión de sistemas Linux .

  • IT Architect at Santander Global Tech
    Dec 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Responsibilities: - Designed and defined enterprise architectures based on the API-First approach, ensuring interoperability, scalability, and reusability across platforms. - Applied Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to align software solutions with business domains and -processes. - Designed and implemented cloud-native architectures, leveraging modern development and deployment practices. - Defined microservices-based architectures to support scalable, resilient, and maintainable applications. - Identified architectural components, design patterns, and best practices for adoption by software development teams. Knowledge: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, kafta, Api First, Spring Boot, Cloud, Java, Python, Mongo DB, SQL, redis, Windows, Linux,EKS,serverless, service mesh, terraform

  • Software engineer II at Telefonica On The Spot Services
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Responsibilities: - Defined and designed service architectures aligned with business and technical requirements. - Developed and deployed IoT services and solutions, including Machine Learning models and web-based services. - Implemented and managed IoT platforms and services in cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. - Evaluated and analyzed new system solutions and emerging technologies to support innovation initiatives. - Orchestrated and managed virtual machines and cloud-based infrastructure resources. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions. Knowledge: Python, AWS, Gogle Cloud, Node js, Java, Javascript, HTML5, Kafka, bash, SQL, Mongo DB, Linux, Dockers, Kubernetes, Machine Learning