Santander Tech Stack
Global banking group with five business lines serving 166 million customers
Santander operates a diversified banking platform across retail, corporate, investment, wealth, and payments businesses, processing scale that reflects 211,000 employees and €1.3 trillion in customer funds. The tech stack spans Java, Python, and Scala for core systems, with Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AWS data infrastructure supporting analytics and risk workflows. Active adoption of RAG, Genesys Cloud, and Salesforce signals modernization of customer service and sales operations, while the hiring mix skews heavily toward sales and finance roles—indicating a business-operations-first prioritization—rather than engineering or product depth.
Tech Stack 200 technologies
What Santander Is Building
◆Challenges
- Operational risk mitigation
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
- Compliance with regulations
- Risk management of portfolio
- Gestão de riscos de carteira
- Adapting models to regulatory changes
- Sustainable portfolio growth
- Regulatory risk
- Internal tax issues for new products
- Compliance risk
▲Active Projects
- Cash management
- Trade & working capital
- Samb platform
- Process automation
- Prospecting new pj clients
- Automation of payroll processes
- Launch new high-yield infrastructure credit fund
- Client onboarding
- Product framework development
- System migrations
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Finance Lead, Branch Director, Head of Responsible Investment, Product Development Lead, Head of Digital Assets
