Jorge Diaz

Client CTO - Global Financial Services at IBM

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

About Jorge Diaz

Jorge Diaz is Client CTO - Global Financial Services at IBM. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

Wealth of experience designing and delivering leading-edge global enterprise transformations, products, and solutions, with considerable acumen in enterprise architecture, integration, governance, and development in highly regulated industries. Hands-on leader with deep expertise in defining and implementing complex technology products and solution strategies, including building, enabling, and leading global, multidisciplinary teams (North & South America, Europe, Asia). Substantial history of forging partnerships with, advising, and delivering next-generation business-aligned technology solutions to multi-industry enterprise clients - including several top global financial services firms across various banking & insurance domains. In-depth technical savvy in a breadth of industry-leading capabilities, including advanced expertise with Hybrid & AI platforms (e.g., Watson, Blockchain, Analytics, Quantum, OpenShift), Cloud (e.g., IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google, Salesforce), vertical assets (e.,g. customer insight, omnichannel, financial crimes, payments, trading, collections, risk) and Open Source solutions. Specialties: enterprise, solution & application architecture, platform modernization & innovation, emerging technologies, strategy, governance, security, compliance, software development, integration, methodologies, migration, outsourcing, product & team leadership, and mentoring. Cloud (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, XaaS, Hybrid, Distributed), AI (Machine / Deep Learning, Agents, LLMs, Foundation models, Trusted AI, Speech, Image, NLP), Analytics / Big Data (Spark, Hadoop), Cybersecurity / Zero Trust (defense, assurance, modeling), Decentralized Systems (Blockchain, Web 3.0), Quantum Computing, High-Performance Computing, Hardware Optimization, Software Defined Infrastructure (storage, networking), Containers / Kubernetes (OpenShift), DevSecOps, Microservices, Serverless Arch., API Mgmt, Mobile, BPM, Rules, MDM, Java EE, .NET, Capture / OCR, Robotic Process Automation, Content Mgmt., IoT - across several infrastructures (x86, Linux / Power, zSystems / mainframe) and using a variety of methods / frameworks (e.g., Design Thinking, TOGAF, ATT&CK, Agile).

Skills

  • Cloud Computing
  • Solution Architecture
  • IT Strategy

Additional experience

  • Chief Technologist - Global Financial Services / Assets

    Concentrix

    July 2014 – August 2016

Education

  • Master, University of Maryland
  • BSc., Northern Kentucky University